HEN, THEN examines the way in which we create our own past. To address this issue Barnas uses the re-arrangements of the Goethe Haus in Frankfurt, made by various curators over the years, presented there as the authentic situation in which Goethe wrote his novels. The film plays with the way that technology, in the form of photographs and digitalization, has formed a range of descriptions and realities that are all both concrete and virtual.