Each year three important German film festivals are represented in Brussels: the Forum of the Berlinale, DOK Leipzig and the Duisburger Filmwoche. As part of the series of German Film Festivals on Tour, this year the Goethe-Institut Brüssel and BOZAR present two outstanding films from the programme of DOK Leipzig:
Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter and
Zustand und Gelände (Status and Terrain) by Ute Adamczweski.
Zustand und Gelände (Status and terrain) takes a look at the concentration camp system in Saxony during the first years of National Socialism. The streamings will be followed by a digital Q&A with the directors and
Ralph Eue, the head of programming at the DOK Leipzig.
Film:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dokzustand/428009361
Code: DOKLPZG2020
ZUSTAND UND GELÄNDE (STATUS AND TERRAIN) - UTE ADAMCZEWSKI
2019, 119 minutes, German, subtitles: F; EN
Available for 24h - 16.06 – 19h > 17.06 – 19h
Watch Zustand und Gelände
here by using this code DOKLPZG2020
What traces has the history of fascist atrocities left on the present landscape of Saxony? In the early 1930s, Saxony was regarded as a stronghold of the workers' movement. When power fell to the Nazis, even in smaller towns they soon set up improvised concentration camps for political opponents, often in sports stadiums, former schools or other municipal buildings. Archive material gives an idea of just how much these concentration camps were part of the day-to-day lives of people at the time. Owners of small businesses, for example, speak of how they did business with the Nazis as suppliers to the concentration camps. At the visual level, the film shows in sober images what has become of these places today. In one village, for example, there is a plaque bearing the inscription: “Den Opfern: 30.01.33 – 09.11.89” (In memory of the victims: 30-1-33 – 9-11-89). The film also shows how commemorations remain politically controversial.
Zustand und Gelände won de Goldene Taube in the German competition of DOK Leipzig 2019.
Ute Adamczewski works as a video artist and film-maker in Berlin. Her video installations have been exhibited at the Venice architecture biennale, the Shanghai art biennale and at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Zustand und Gelände is her first documentary.
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