Memories of a Revolution

a video documentary

created and edited by Johannes Birringer

camera/sound: Johannes Birringer

This project was created almost immediately after the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989 and presents a first reaction, by a German artist – who left his country during the 1970s and the years of turbulent left wing radicalism – to the ‚revolution‘ or popular Monday protest movement in the GDR (in a global context of the cold war period and its waning during the Gorbachev-Reagan era, the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union and the impending re-unification of the two Germanys). 

premiere exhibition: Rice Media Center

Houston

1989/1990