Footage that was officially not supposed to exist. A find from the Saxon State Archive.

The cinematographer Manfred Köhler talks about filming the controlled demolition of the Leipzig university church in 1968.

In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place. Bypassing every state institution, six painters, sculptors and filmmakers organised an art exhibition.

In his diploma film, Christian Lehmann follows a construction project in Hoyerswerda, where a residential quarter is built for the employees of the “Schwarze Pumpe” gas state combine.

In a nocturnal clearing, an old gramophone plays dance music for some strange animals and creatures. This attracts the moon’s curiosity.

Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger and urges speed, the other wastes his time on decorative details.

Four petty bourgeois and their assiduous attempts to play a harmonious home concert. The “Neues Deutschland” newspaper interpreted “Musici” as a pamphlet against West German philistines.

A hermetically sealed, uncomfortable universe. The hero, Einmart, is a torsoless head who just scratches along. Once, however, Einmart successfully attempts to fly. Richly allusive. Subversive.

The project Dammbeck had already started to prepare before he left and had partly explored in media collages, was produced for Südwestfunk in 1990.

An ironic salute and tribute to the avant-garde cinema of the 1920s, which can be seen as a dress rehearsal for the great films of the “Herakles-Konzept”.

In 1954, the “Automat Imbiss” opened on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin. Featuring slots from which you picked the dishes after inserting coins, it conformed to the notions of modernity and future of the time.

Portrait of a GDR scientist who used the occasion to produce “sustainable” proof for the necessity of invading the ČSSR.

Produced at the DEFA Studio for animated film in Dresden, this film traces the life story of one man from birth to death.

This film was first planned in 1976 for an interdisciplinary exhibition of six Leipzig artists called “Tangente I” intended to revolve around joint projects by painters, filmmakers, composers and choreographers.

The film documents the living conditions of assemblers at the “Nordlicht” natural gas pipeline, one of the mega-projects of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon).

A sensitive group portrait of delinquents with “behavioural problems” who were inmates of the notorious “Jugendwerkhof” Scharfenstein in the Erzgebirge.