Films by Gamma Bak / Gamma Bak Filmproduktion

2014, 84 min
by Gamma Bak / Gamma Bak Filmproduktion, Steffen Reck

Essayist film about a time when the directors Gamma Bak (West Berlin) and Steffen Reck (East Berlin) were a couple for a few years trying to live a relationship in spite of the Berlin Wall. 25 years after the Fall of the Wall this film is a striking historic document taking us back in time.A personal story remembering a defection from East to West using an unexpected exit visa to leave East Berlin in 1988. Collaging personal documents, archival material in Super-8, film and theatre clips and Sec

Germany 2010, 92 min
by Gamma Bak / Gamma Bak Filmproduktion

HEAD COLD is a personal long-term observational documentary about psychosis, still a tabooed topic. It follows my attempt to return to a "normal" life - since the mid-90s I had several psychotic breakdowns, which were treated in mental hospitals. The film was shot over 5 years and also uses my archives since 1992. What happened to me is not just relevant on an individual level. It reveals at which points the emancipation from the stigma caused by this illness can occur. My own story is both the

Germany 2004, 108 min
by Andres Veiel

Four acting students are the focus of Andres Veiel’s long-term observational documentary. We meet Stephanie, Karina, Constanza and Prodromos while they are preparing for their acting school auditions. The selection procedure takes months; it is a trying, nerve-racking time spent vacillating between hope and anxiety. All four make it into the school, but their initial euphoria about commencing their studies – including group exercises, role play and obligatory fencing lessons