We cordially invite you to the book presentation of »What we filmed«: Films by East German directors after 1990«. Female directors from three generations are represented in this book with their texts. The book is a clear step forward in dealing with filmmaking from an East German perspective between 1990 and today. The texts are valuable counter-memories, because they neither romanticize the past nor allow themselves to be historically simplified.

The anthology contains eyewitness reports, interviews, detailed film analyzes and offers a polyphonic inventory.

Jane Chirwa and Cornelia Klauß read from texts by Ines Johnson-Spain, Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs and Tamara Trampe.

This is followed by Becoming Black (Director: Ines Johnson-Spain, DE 2019), the story of a little girl in East Germany in the 1960s, whose white parents tell her that her brown skin color is coincidental and has no meaning. 40 years later, an autobiographical documentary seems to be the only way to ask the necessary questions.
The conversation with the director is conducted by Betty Schiel. Filminfo

June 1st 7:30 p.m. arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., Filmhaus, Potsdamer Straße 2, Berlin