SCREENING: Take A Picture & Just An Ordinary Life
Thurs 15 September 6.30pm, Goethe Institut, Glasgow. FREE.
Take A Picture (2011, 52mins, Director: Sabine Michel)
Cooperation with ZDF and Arte and the DEFA Foundation.
Sibylle Bergemann, who died in November 2010 at the age of 69 years, is one of the outstanding German photographers of the GDR, particularly in the field of fashion and portrait photography. For her melancholic-cheerful film, the director Sabine Michel accompanied the photographer to Venice, offering a rare glimpse into the workings of this apparently shy woman. The film covers a range of her practice and is a unique and touching contemporary portrait of this intense yet tender photographer.
Just An Ordinary Life (2006, 72mins, Director: Pamela Meyer-Arndt)
On a poetic journey back in time, this film reveals what it felt like to live in the former East Germany, through the eyes of three photographers - Sibylle Bergemann, Helga Paris and Gundula Schulze Eldowy. It provides a fascinating insight into their work and reveals an unusually tender and feminine view of an exceptionally beautiful but grey reality.
With an introduction by Dr. Deborah Lewer, Head of History of Art at Glasgow University. Previously Senior Lecturer in Modern European History of Art, Debbie specialises in the art and culture of 20th Century Germany. In 2009-10, she won an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Programmed to coincide with the exhibition Sibylle Bergemann: Photographien
Goethe Institut
3 Park Circus, Glasgow G3 6AX.
Tel: 0141 332 2555.
