with Tatiana Lecomte, photographer and artist
Pınar Öğrenci, filmmaker and artist
and Maya Schweizer, film director and artist
Curated by: Cornelia Klauß, Film and Media Art Section of the AdK
Moderated by: Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker, curator and author

In English

Remembering is a process. Using different artistic approaches and strategies, the filmmakers Tatiana Lecomte, Pınar Öğrenci and Maya Schweizer create echoes of the past, always thematising the constant inadequacy of a real ‘rapprochement’.

In Ein mörderischer Lärm (A Hellish Noise), Tatiana Lecomte arranges a workshop situation: in a conversation with contemporary witness Jean-Jacques Boijentin, his memories of his time as a prisoner in a penal and labour camp in 1944 are reconstructed. But instead of using archive images or documents, she only works with acoustic signals. This creates a stream of associations that leaves room for the unspeakable.

Glück auf in Deutschland (Good Luck in Germany) by Pınar Öğrenci is based on photographs from the years 1950 to 1987 from the archive of the Ruhr Museum Essen. Through the interplay of images and descriptions of working and living conditions in coal mines, the film explores the myth of the miner and discovers voids in the narrative of the German economic miracle.

In her double projection Regarde par ici, ...Und dort die Puschkinallee, Maya Schweizer uses the hatch of a GDR border watchtower as a lens. Seemingly everyday activities are documented and unfold an ambiguous meaning in this historical space.