For Cinetracts ’20, twenty filmmakers and artists around the world were invited by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University to make a 2-minute short following certain rules and capturing “the zeitgeist in your own backyard”. In this selection from the full program we find inspired, illuminating, and personal contributions by Cameron Granger, Sky Hopinka, the Karrabing Film Collective, Bouchra Khalili, Gabriel Mascaro and Apichatpong Weerasethakul – and perhaps some ways to answer Cameroonian documentarian Rosine Mbakam’s question: “What history are we going to write after this pandemic?”