Nach dem Fall
Germany / USA,
1999, 85 min
Shown in 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Eric Black, Frauke Sandig
- prod
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Frauke Sandig
- cam
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Eric Black
- editor
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Inge Schneider
- source
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Umbrella Films, Pappelallee 22, 10437 Berlin, Germany. FAX: 49-30-44-73-86-24
- gga award
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Bay Area Documentary
- premiere
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U.S. Premiere
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COMMENTS
Screened with Window. Eric Black, Frauke Sandig in person.
OTHER
Once again a metropolitan capital at the heart of Europe, Berlin is steadily rising from the ashes to reclaim some of its former glory, ended in 1945 by the Allied division of the city. Since the German reunification and the fall of the Berlin Wall—one of the Cold War’s most definitive landmarks—over 50,000 new buildings have been commissioned in Berlin. While gently documenting this radical transformation of a divided cityscape into one of cranes and construction sites, After the Fall gives voice to people effecting and reacting to historical change. The Wall and its repercussions are psychoanalyzed, while state secrets and logistical information about its creation and demolition are divulged. With boundless passion, human witnesses to history give their unique take on the future and the meaning of it all. Included in this spirited melange is a former member of the East German State Security, a preservationist priest, a conceptualist psychoanalyst, a Bavarian entrepreneur whose single-minded dream is to recycle the Wall, a pair of English homeopaths whose remedies include capsules of mortared Wall and other characters for whom the Wall’s physical demolition does not necessarily imply its psychic abolition.
—Marlene Friis
FACTOID #177
In 2000 animator Faith Hubley was the recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award. One year later, her daughter Emily appeared at the Festival with her bandmates, Yo La Tengo, to perform a score accompanying the silent underwater films of Jean Painlevé.
