Strata: Portraits of Humanity, January 2026 (Arctic Indigenous ghost story; memories of German empire in Togoland)
(1) “A Stranger on the Land: A Ghost Story”: The Arctic landscape during a blizzard becomes a place between worlds where anything can be true. Shot during an extreme Arctic blizzard, this is a true story of a man hopelessly lost while traveling and his mysterious rescuer. (2) “The Fire, a Fowl and an (Un)Forgotten Past”: From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land called “Togoland,” between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey, was part of a German overseas empire in Africa. Although the Germans there surrendered in the early days of WWI, European rule left longlasting marks on people’s minds.
