After my dad's death two years ago, my siblings and I found a box of long forgotten 8 mm films. We set up the old projector and screen and for a few hours relived highlights of summer vacations. My dad, a quite unsentimental intellectual, had perfected a filming method that he repeated over and over again: Line up the family in front of a historic land mark and then capture everyone walking and waving towards the camera. In doing so he captured much that no longer exists or has been forgotten: the Berlin Wall, the empty streets of East Berlin, the burned out Reichstag, border crossings into Belgium, the (then) Yugoslavia coast... The films were a bit repetitive but it was fun to see ourselves grow in front of my dad's camera and to reminisce changes in our family and in Europe. I think watching some of the films for this class, especially those set in the Balkans, will trigger other forgotten events.