Trotz Umbau geöffnet

I left Berlin in 1987, after having spent ten years of my life there. My ties with those who were part of my little German tribe are still strong, and I quite simply wanted to have a family album that would resume a period in my life and work. I still have some films, where friends appear, left from those years in West-Berlin – Max Muder and Uwe Abraham (…) In 1990, in Inventory before Closure, I filmed four characters representing a kind of moral climate in the GDR, seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and just before reunification. Six years later, I found three of them again (…) They are all from the same generation, give or take a few years, and so I have tried to strike the chords of their childhood stories and adult thoughts regardless of the still present Wall. I have also tried to give an idea of how they are building their existences, between memories and projects, amongst rubble and foundations.’ (Bernard Mangiante)