Films by Jakobine Motz

Germany 2018, 72 min
by Andreas Goldstein

My father Klaus Gysi - Jew and communist - made his career in the former GDR after years of illegality in Nazi Germany. The fall of socialism burnt his life efforts in one brief moment. The film THE COMMUNIST tries to reflect on his failure from the viewpoint of my own experiences within this historical time. My fundamental historical experience is opportunism. 1990 people already forgot what they believed in the year before. So did my father, one of the leading operatives of the GDR, who now calls the state he worked for all his life a dictatorship which should have been prevented. A sudden change of heart which disturbed me and was the reason to make this movie.

Germany 2010, 100 min
by Claus Löser, Jakobine Motz

In the end of the 1980’s Leipzig was one important centre of independent culture in the GDR. Painters, photographers, musicians, poets oppose to the requirements of official politics. From 1985 till 1989 the gallery ‘Eigen+Art’ in Leipzig-Connewitz provided those artists a platform to present themselves to the public. The film reconstructs the history of this gallery and looks further back to the roots of independent exhibitions and activities as the ‘1. Leipziger Herbstsalon’, the ‘Erste Privatgalerie Schweinebraden’ in Berlin or the artist group ‘Clara Mosch’ in Chemnitz. Original film documents are juxtaposed to interviews and current scenes. Acknowledgment to Thomas Steinert for the disposal of his image of the 1980’s for press relations. Contact: Claus Löser Kopenhagener Str. 73 10437 Berlin, Germany tel.: +49 (0) 30-47370858 fax: +49 (0) 30-4733777 clausloeser@googlemail.com