Ramona Köppel-Welsh

The history of the GDR Super-8 scene—an underground art movement that produced films outside official channels in the 1980s—produced by Cornelia Klauss, herself a Super-8 artist. The Stasi (secret police) monitored this rebellious scene closely. Female artists Ramona Köppel-Welsch, Cornelia Schleime and Christine Schlegel, among others, talk about their art and films, their experiences as artists in the GDR, and how their work changed after the Wall came down.

Found material, old home movies, secretly-filmed images of the Berlin Wall, as well as short, staged passages condense into a claustrophobic film poem.

Found material, old home movies, secretly-filmed images of the Berlin Wall, as well as short, staged passages condense into a claustrophobic film poem.

Found material, old home movies, secretly-filmed images of the Berlin Wall, as well as short, staged passages condense into a claustrophobic film poem.