About the film
The film “Who is Hermes?” is a spiritual-cinematic journey through myth, remembrance and inner transformation. It begins with a seemingly simple question: Who is Hermes? Yet the deeper the film travels, the clearer it becomes that Hermes is not merely a mythological figure, but a principle. A mediator between worlds. A messenger between heaven and earth, spirit and matter, remembrance and embodiment.
From Hermes, the film reaches back to his older correspondences: to Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and keeper of writing, magic, measure and cosmic knowledge. From there the view opens further towards Atlantis as an inner realm of remembrance—a symbol of an ancient culture of consciousness in which knowledge, healing, sound, light and initiation belonged together.
At the centre of the film lies a journey of initiation. The viewer is not simply informed about Hermes, Thoth and the Magician, but drawn into an inner movement. The images pass through temple spaces, crystal architecture, light, silence and moments of crossing. The film asks not only: Who was Hermes? But: What does it mean to walk the path of the Magician ourselves?
The Magician appears not as a trickster or mere sorcerer, but as a human being learning to connect the forces between worlds consciously. True transformation does not arise through control, but through remembrance, presence and inner alignment. The journey leads into a crystal temple where a person encounters themselves before every role, every history and every function—as though returning to an original, embryonic state of pure being.
After this spiritual initiation, the film returns to the realm of lived archetypes. In the third act, a tarot wagon opens like an interval between past and present. There we meet the Juggler, the Magician of the Tarot. He guides a young woman through an inner decision: Will she remain dependent on external expectations, conformity and prescribed roles—or find the courage to be herself?
The Tarot cards do not appear as abstract symbols, but as lived situations. The Devil appears in dependency and pretence. The Lovers in the question of choice. Death in the inner readiness to release what has ended. The Empress in the return to dignity, sensuality and natural stature. The insight that remains is this: transformation occurs when a person stops abandoning themselves.
In the finale, the modern character returns to a rooftop terrace beneath the stars. Through a glass wall he watches people continue to argue and compete, caught in power, control and acceleration. The outer world has not yet changed—but his way of seeing it has.
In this way, the film connects great mythological images with a deeply contemporary question: How do we return to inner truth, clarity and creative presence in a world filled with noise, competition and control?
“Who is Hermes?” is not a conventional explanatory film about mythology. It is a cinematic path of initiation. A journey from knowledge to remembrance. From myth to personal experience. From Hermes to Thoth, from Atlantis to the Tarot—and finally back to the human being who recognises that the mediator between worlds is not only a figure from ancient stories. It is an inner principle that can awaken within us.
