The Subversive Camera (1996)

• 85%
• 1996
• Documentary
• Cornelia Klauß
• Cornelia Schleime
• Ramona Köppel-Welsh
• Christine Schlegel

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.