A German police state of the past is the setting for the pulsating short film thriller Afraid Doesn’t Exist. In it, Anna Zett collages video and audio material from the Berlin “Archive of the GDR Opposition” partially taking the perspective of a child. Based on her own intimate involvement, the artist documents a successful, yet mostly unknown act of resistance at the very end of the GDR, while at the same time opening up an associative space for connecting with experiences of violence that are otherwise difficult to access today. Vocally highly condensed voices from a 1986 East Berlin poetry reading support the voiceless narrator – “an adult child” – in the reconstruction of her own emotional world, as does the multi-layered musical score.

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Loop Holes