Sunday 8 November 2009, 15.00

Observations of day-to-day rituals, official events and private perils open up views into the closed world of totalitarian systems in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Violence and punk music break the monotony; irony and experimentation help to bear it. Including films by Igor & Gleb Alejnikow, Gerd Conradt, Jewgeni Jufit, Ramona Köppel-Welsh, Józef Robakowski, János Vető, and Thomas Werner, the programme captures the stifling atmosphere of late Communism, but also the some instances of freedom and change.

Programme duration is 87 min.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

Curated by Claus Löser.