Movies: Christine Schlegel

  • 2017
    Spuren des Performativen

    Spuren des Performativen (2017)

    Spuren des Performativen

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    GDR August 31, 1985, Klubhaus in Coswig/Dresden - "Intermedia I - Farbraum/Klangbild"- the event was the first and, as it turned out, the last exhibition by the subculture in East Germany, in which over 40 visual artists and twice as many musicians,...

    Spuren des Performativen
  • 1996
    Die subversive Kamera

    Die subversive Kamera (1996)

    Die subversive Kamera

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    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. Fema...

    Die subversive Kamera
  • 1984
    A last supper

    A last supper (1984)

    A last supper

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    In an enigmatically arranged tableau vivant, the painter Christine Schlegel permits the messiahs and other saviours to meet. Their ideals are, however, doomed to failure due to timidity, greed and betrayal....

    A last supper
  • 1985
    Structures

    Structures (1985)

    Structures

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    Far removed from the officially propagated GDR cultural sector, Christine Schlegel created her very own energetic cosmos on 8mm stock between 1977 and 1986. She painted over or scratched lines and shapes on footage of the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski. She...

    Structures