Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Introduction: Making History ReVisibleThoughts for IndianaNot a Bad Heritage: An Interview with Andreas DresenSpectral Images in the Afterlife of GDR CinemaThe Wende in FilmBetween Times: My Experience as a Director during the Wende"Look, People, Look!": An Interview with Eduard SchreiberThe Theatricality of "Shard Films": An Interview with Jörg FothCompeting Archives: Intertextuality and Wende Narrative in the "Last Films from East Germany"The State of Being Done: Film at the End of the Second WorldCinema after the GDR's Downfall: The Story of Ö-FilmWhen Berlin-Brandenburg Met Kommerz-Keil: An Interview with Klaus KeilPerforming the GDR: The Last DEFA Generation and the Tradition of TheatricalitySurveillance States: Structures of Conspiracy in Wende CinemaCleansing the System: East German Cinema RepurposedHistorical Archaeology: Curating the Wende Flicks SeriesThe DEFA Foundation, 2010: Rediscover the Past-Support the FutureActivating an Archive of Inner Perspectives: Political Education with DEFA FilmsVorspiel (1987)flüstern & SCHREIEN (1988)Coming Out (1989)Leipzig im Herbst (1989) and Östliche Landschaft (1991)Die Architekten (1990)Die Mauer (1990)Letztes aus der DaDaeR (1990)Der Tangospieler (1991)Verriegelte Zeit (1991)Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen (1992)Verfehlung (1992)Stilles Land (1992)Jana und Jan (1992)Herzsprung (1992)Sammelsurium-Ein ostelbischer Kulturfilm (1992)Miraculi (1992)Burning Life (1994)The Schlöndorff Controversy (2008)Selected BibliographyNotes on the Contributors and CuratorsIndex