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Berlin Riots is a British Pathé newsreel reporting on the 17 June 1953 uprising of workers against the Communist regime in East Germany. A general feeling of discontent with social and economic conditions in East Germany had been building for some time but the events of June 1953 were the first major acts of rebellion […]
Tiny Town is a clever tilt-shift video filmed in Berlin by Sammy Metwalli a German director, editor and compositing artist who also directed the documentary Ostblut. Tilt-shift is a photography or filming effect that makes real life scenes look like miniature models. The effect is achieved by creating a narrow point of focus and popping the […]
Ostberlin IX – Punks is part 9 of Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR and features a series of black and white images of East Berlin punks from 1980 to 1989. The photos offer a glimpse into another time and to those who lived through it what must seem like another world. Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg are […]
In his short film, Christmas Market Berlin, Matthias Makarinus has captured the essence of Berlin’s yuletide wonderlands. The film takes us on a tour of several markets for ice skating, fairground rides, sausages and Glühwein. I’m pretty sure I saw: Berliner Weihnachtzeit am Roten Rathaus; Nostalgischer Weihnachtsmarkt am Opernpalais, Weihnachtsmarkt auf dem Alexanderplatz; Wintertraum am […]
Berlin-based skateboarder Denny Pham takes filmmakers Modest Department around the hometown they share in Modest Meets – Denny Pham. Berlin is such a creative and open-minded place…people actually come here to be creative…it’s just really open for skateboarding… Pham was born in Rostock in the North of Germany but moved to Berlin because “summers are […]
Spies Beneath Berlin is a documentary about Operation Gold, a joint undertaking by MI6 and the CIA in the 1950s to build a tunnel from West to East Berlin to intercept Soviet intelligence communications. One of the most valuable and daring operations ever undertaken. – Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA 1953-1961 In 1951 the already […]
Berlin Ringbahn is a two track album created by Martin Kristopher under the name 3dtorus for the Cities and Memory project. Kristopher made his recording of the Berlin Ringbahn S42, which travels anti-clockwise around the city, starting and ending at the Halensee station, on a Saturday afternoon in September 2015. When I recently visited Berlin I […]
Berlin Train Terminal from the National Geographic Megastructures series is a documentary about the construction of the Berlin Hauptbahnhof train station. In the words of National Geographic: In Berlin, a construction team races to finish Europe’s newest and largest train station before the football World Cup. Follow the team as it attempts an engineering feat […]
One Night in Berlin – Michael Mackrodt is a short film by Robin Pailler for Desillusion Magazine that follows the German pro skater as he goes underground to escape the cold of a Berlin winter. Mackrodt first heads down into the S-Bahnhof at Potsdamer Platz and then skates around the passage between the station and […]
State Plan 14.25, the official name for the East German program for improving athletic success through the use of performance-enhancing drugs, is the subject of the documentary Doping For Gold. In the 1970s and 1980s East German athletes were prolific medal winners but their achievements were overshadowed by rumours of widespread steroid abuse. Documents from […]
