In BERLIN-LICHTENBERG, Franz Wanner reworks private 8mm footage shot in 1943 Berlin, exposing the uneasy coexistence of family leisure and Nazi oppression.

The original home movie, filmed in the Lichtenberg district, seems at first to capture only serene, ordinary moments: a wife and child strolling, an afternoon at a lakeside restaurant. Yet the background betrays another reality—forced laborers marching to work, the barracks of a nearby labor camp, the silent traces of violence woven into daily life.

These were never deliberate motifs but accidental intrusions, glimpses of the pervasive presence of forced labor in the Third Reich.

By adding intertitles that provide a contemporary reading while layering in a fictional dimension, Wanner reframes the material, transforming an amateur home movie into a haunting meditation on complicity, memory, and the unsettling intersections of the personal and political.