"Hans-Loch-Straße": Jay Leyda in Ost-Berlin (1964–69)

In the organizer's words:

Sun 10.11., 17h, guest: Florian Wüst
"Hans-Loch-Straße": Jay Leyda in East Berlin (1964-69)
BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE Emile Itolo GDR 1964 8'
Excerpts from: JAHRGANG 45 Jürgen Böttcher GDR 1966
Excerpts from: MEIN LIEBER ROBINSON Roland Gräf GDR 1970
Excerpts from productions of the State Film Documentation of the GDR and the German
Television of the GDR
RUNAWAY Standish Lawder USA 1966 16 mm without dialog 6'
In this program, Tobias Hering and Florian Wüst reflect on the difficult, but for Leyda productive years he and his wife Si-Lan spent in the GDR in a mixture of conversation and material viewing. Contemporary reports from the GDR news program "Aktuelle Kamera" as well as excerpts from the DEFA feature films JAHRGANG 45 and MEIN LIEBER ROBINSON reflect their living environment, the Hans-Loch-Viertel (today: Sewanviertel) in Friedrichsfelde, which was still under construction. ZWISCHEN ANKUNFT UND ABFAHRT, a little-known short film by the Cameroonian Emile Itolo, made at the HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg, shows the nearby East Berlin Central Station as a lively hub of the city. There is internal footage of Leyda's workplaces in the SFA from the GDR's State Film Documentation and Standish Lawder's merciless dog-chasing-a-fox loop RUNAWAY also has a place in this speculative approach.