Movie

La Villette (1990)

• July 17, 1990
• 53m

• Documentary

Overview

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists—including Jürgen Böttcher, the Autoperforation Artists, AG Geige, Via Lewandowsky, Trak Wendisch, Conny Hege, Klaus Killisch, Helga Paris and Hanns Schimansky—presented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris.

Director

Gerd Kroske

Starring

Jürgen Böttcher, Christoph Tannert, Maurice Najman