FILM

Words and Images: Amie Siegel

DDR/DDR
(High Definition, 135 min, color/sound)

Q & A with the artist and Associate Curator Randi Hopkins

The latest feature by 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize finalist Amie Siegel is a multilayered and disarmingly beautiful essay on the German Democratic Republic and its dissolution, which left many of its former citizens adrift in their newfound freedom. Featured at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the film weaves together mundane Stasi surveillance footage, interviews with psychoanalysts, and lolling shots of derelict state radio stations as it meditates on history, memory, and the shared technologies of state control and art.