Berlin-Beyond the Ruins
Organisation: Centrul pentru Arta Contemporana - KSAK, Chsiianu Countries: MoldovaThe film looks at Berlin after the fall of the Wall as the city struggles to re-establish itself as the cultural and political capital of Germany after the unification of Eastern and Western Berlin. The New Berlin reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and "remembered futures," a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German. The project is conceived as investigative documentary and its main goal is to explore the transformations of the city of Berlin from cross-disciplinary platform by involving a number of experts and political and cultural activists to clarify these issues. Developing a film about Berlin considers to be an opportunity for visual artist to express their position as main actors in the process of transformation of the city over the last decades, or debate what national past should be remembered, for whom, where, and in what form. Through a complex interweaving of field trips, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, art in public spaces and other sources, it is revealed how these locations and spaces uniquely exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. www.art.md