Surveillance, Secret Police Film Festival

16 films / 5 countries / 6 weeks

October 21, 2015 –
December 2, 2015

Film screening series in connection with the exhibition “Watching You, Watching Me”.

Type Events

Genre film screening series

Curated by MINK András, Ioana MACREA-TOMA, Piotr WCISLIK, ZÁDORI Zsuzsanna

In cooperation with

New York-i Nyílt Társadalom Intézet / Open Society Foundations, New York
Goethe-Institut Budapest

Related exhibition(s)

Watching You, Watching Me

Related event(s)

Watching You, Watching Me – Opening Event The Life of an Agent Under Surveillance by the Securitate 1970–1980 Hear My Cry / Usłyszcie mój krzyk Their Duty is to Spy What were they seeing while watching? Operative films from the Stasi Mediathek GermanUnity@Balaton What Does Privacy Mean in an Open Society?

Summary

Film screening series in connection with the exhibition “Watching You, Watching Me”.

In connection with the exhibition “Watching You, Watching Me”, the Open Society Archives, in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Budapest and secret police archives in Germany, Poland and Slovakia, is showcasing a retrospective film program inspired by the photos of the secret Stasi archives curated by Simon Menner.

This retrospective film program includes an international selection of training films, newsreels and operative films produced by Communist Secret Police 1962–1989. The program explores how the secret police imagined and managed their surveillance activities and what they were actually seeing while watching. Also in the program are creative documentary films composed of and built around secret police surveillance films.

The programs are in English.