2024 GSA Arts Night
RETURN TO A LOCKED-UP TIME
> September 22 to October 6, 2024
Stream FREE Verriegelte Zeit (Locked-Up Time, Germany, 1990, dir. Sibylle Schönemann, 94 min., b/w, EN ST). Premiere of the film with new English subtitles.
A few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann goes back to the East Germany and confronts the people responsible for her imprisonment.
"Extraordinary [...] this deft and chilling film has the style of a personal excursion into history." —The New York Times
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> September 26, 2024
7:00 – 8:00 PM
Courtland Grand Hotel, 165 Courtland Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 | Room Athens
Screening of an exclusive interview with filmmaker Sybille Schönemann + Q&A
DEFA Film Library will premiere an exclusive interview, Director Sibylle Schönemann on Her Documentary Locked-Up Time (2024, dir. Bernd Sahling, 31 min.) that was conducted by Mariana Ivanova (Academic Director, DEFA Film Library) and recorded at the Filmmuseum Potsdam in June 2024:
Sibylle Schönemann talks about the Stasi’s role at the DEFA Studio, her experiences as political prisoner, her traumatic past, the making of the film and its reception more than 35 years later. The film is interspersed with clips from the director’s 1990 documentary Locked-Up Time.
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Mariana Ivanova and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn (Associate Director, DEFA Film Library).
The documentary will be released on kanopy.com and will also be available through us for rental, DSL and streaming. The interview will be released on FilmBox, a free digital teaching archive on our Vimeo platform. A teaching guide written by Maria Stehle (University of Tennessee) will be available in fall 2024.
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