Small films make great cinema. Accompanying the current foyer exhibition of the Filmmuseum Potsdam, selected feature-length documentaries and essay films will be shown, consisting mainly of amateur and private film shots or focusing on the theme of “Home Movies”. In addition to pioneering works for television and cinema or renowned genre classics, more recent works will also be screened. Celebrated at international festivals, they have so far hardly been seen in German cinemas. Be curious to see films that take a different look at everyday life and history through the use of private images.

The Film Screenings was curated by Ralf Forster and Oliver Hanley with the participation of students of the Film Heritage Master’s Programme of the Film University Babelsberg and supported by the ZeM. It accompanies the first “Home Movie Day” on 20 October 2018 in Brandenburg.

How we live – Messages to the family
Gustav Deutsch

Presented in a largely unadulterated form So live we – messages to the family amateur film shootings, which the Austrian filmmaker and artist Gustav Deutsch has selected after painstaking archive research in Amsterdam, Bologna, Manchester and Vienna. As with historical home cinema, he comments on the films himself. Deutsch uncovers the stories hidden behind the private shots – and adds his own contemporary story: the journey with a Moroccan friend to his roots in Figuig in southeastern Morocco. Old film images in black and white and color meet modern Skype and smartphone videos. The result is a three-layered journey through time and the world, which at the same time is a journey through the media development of private film.
In the presence of Gustav Deutsch.