Behind The Wall: Short Films From The GDR
Part of the London Short Film Festival
After 38 years of existing as a divided country, the first crucial step towards German unification occurred on 9th November 1989; when Berlin opened its checkpoints and people passed freely between East and West for the first time in decades. In November this year, 30 years will have passed since this historic moment. The London Short Film Festival kicks of the anniversary year with three programmes of short films highlighting the dissenting and subversive work made in the German Democratic Republic.
The Goethe-Institut is pleased to contribute to the presentation to this special focus within the festival and look forward to the visit of Berlin-based filmmaker and curator Claus Löser, who will introduce one of the programmes.
Venue:
ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
SW1Y 5AH London
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Individual Programmes
Sat, 19.01.2019 5:00 PM
Jürgen Böttcher
This mini-retrospective highlights the work of East German documentarian and painter Jürgen Böttcher. Working within the ideological confines of the GDR, Böttcher's body of work forms an insightful, witty and deeply humane look at the workers, students and artists of the socialist republic. In drawing us into their frustrations, their insecurities and their humour, Böttcher offers up a gently subversive, cinéma vérité-influenced perspective that strives to find the individual within the collective.
https://www.ica.art/on/films/lsff-2019-behind-wall-j-rgen-b-ttcher
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Sun, 20.01.2019 1:00 PM
Behind the Wall: Phantoms
In this loosely curated selection of films, East German filmmakers explore the ephemeral and the forgotten. With great empathy and wit, Thomas Heise’s Why Make a Film About These People? documents the lives of the disenfranchised and impoverished youth that mischievously terrorise the streets of Prenzlauer Berg whilst in Nude Photography, Helke Misselwitz highlights the work of photographer Gundula Schulze and her intimacy with her subjects. Finally, as the GDR enters its final years, Eduard Schreiber searches Berlin for the last remnants of Jewish culture in the haunting Traces.
https://www.ica.art/on/films/lsff-2019-behind-wall-phantoms
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Sun, 20.01.2019 3:00 PM
Behind the Wall: Ex Oriente LUX: 8mm underground experiments
Founded by Claus Löser and Karin Fritzsche, Ex Oriente Lux is a Berlin based archive of 8mm experimental films made in the GDR between the years 1976-1991. Operating outside the ideological confines of the DEFA studio, these films showcase the versatility and creative energy of the artists and filmmakers experimenting on the fringes. Often screened in secret, they depict an East Germany as politically and culturally radical as their western counterparts, with bold explorations of gender, the avant-garde and urban decay. 73 mins
The screening will be introduced by Ex Oriente Lux co-founder Claus Löser.
https://www.ica.art/on/films/lsff-2019-behind-wall-ex-oriente-lux-8mm-underground-experiments
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