Paper short abstract:

Name of Director: Anne Chahine Year of Production: 2017 Language: German Subtitles: Englisch Length: 19min Previewlink: https://vimeo.com/201910376 Password: memory Created as part of my master thesis at the Free University Berlin - MA track Visual and Media Anthropology

Paper long abstract:

The short documentary "Memory is Not About the Past" aims to understand how former East Germany is remembered in accordance with the general national historic discourse today. The film focuses on members of the Third Generation East, meaning individuals born in the GDR between 1975 and 1985, who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as a child or young adolescent. The field of research is the city of Berlin and all its former East German districts. The intent of this ethnographic encounter is not to solely observe and conduct interviews, but also to stage encounters with the participants in order to access the different layers of memory and perception.