Go Clara Go: The Art of Creative Resistance

Join us, Filmmaker Sylvie Kürsten, and curator Isotta Poggi of the Getty Research Institute on Saturday, February 7th at the Wende Museum for a special screening of Kürsten's film Go Clara Go: The Art of Creative Resistance. The screening will be followed by a coversation with Sylvie Kürsten and Isotta Poggi.
 
Go Clara Go: The Art of Creative Resistance
Germany (2025), 93 Min., in German with English subtitles
Buch & Regie: Sylvie Kürsten, Kamera: Martin Langner, Christian Trieloff, Anne Misselwitz, Roman Schlaack, Valentin Kühn, Schnitt: Johannes Girke, Musik: Fabian Russ, Tänzerin: Anna Weißenfels, Sprecherin: Jule Böwe, Mit: Gregor Torsten Kozik, Thomas Ranft, Dagmar Ranft-Schinke, Michael Morgner, Gunar Barthel, Nora Barthel, Olivia Glaser, Georg Girardet, Tabea Wendenburg, Isotta Poggi, Produzent: Gregor Streiber, Friedemann Hottenbacher, Produktionsfirma: inselfilm produktion GmbH (Berlin)
  During the 1970s, the artist group Clara Mosch transformed the former socialist model city of Chemnitz, then Karl-Marx-Stadt, in the GDR into an avant-garde happening zone. Silent performances and plenary actions alternated with exuberant art festivals and collaborative works presented in the local Galerie Oben. Through interviews with the protagonists and archival sources, including materials from the Getty Research Institute, filmmaker Sylvie Kürsten sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in East German art history in her new documentary Go Clara Go: The Art of Creative Resistance(Germany, 2025).

Sylvie Kürsten is an independent cultural journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Since 2011, she has produced and directed documentaries navigating the relations between culture and society in former East Germany. In 2016, she won the Grimme-Audience Award for her TV documentary Art and CrimeThe venus gone astrayand has presented her works at major national and international film festivals.

This program is presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the German Currents Film Festival.