In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof (TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches, galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals.
The medium of ‘Super-8 film’ was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet ‘Quarz’ camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also reached East Berlin. 

Presentation of the book / DVD publication 'Grauzone 8 mm. Materialien zum autonomen Künstlerfilm in der DDR' at transmediale.07. The book accompanies the exhibition '40jahrevideokunst.de:revision.ddr' at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. The DVD is conceptualised and produced by Ludwig Bolzmann Institut Medien. Kunst. Forschung. Linz.

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16 H Film programme ‘Revision DDR’ (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Jörg Herold, Else Gabriel, Via Lewandowsky, Yana Milev, Ulrich Polster)

18 H Discussion ‘Media Art in the GDR?’, mit Lutz Dammbeck, Else Gabriel, Claus Löser, Helke Misselwitz, Klaus Staeck, Christoph Tannert, Dieter Daniels (in German)

20 H Film programme ‘Films by Painters in the GDR’ (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime, Andreas Dress, Christine Schlegel, Jürgen Böttcher, A. R. Penck)

The film programme has been curated by Claus Löser (Archiv ex.oriente.lux)

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