ALLE MACHT DER SUPER 8 Knut Hoffmeister, Yana Yo, Ingrid Maye, Volker Rendschmidt, Peter Fischer-Piel, Walter Gramming, padeluun, Ika Schier, Hella Santarossa, Ruza Spak, Christoph Doering, Axel Brand, Anette Maschmann, Jürgen Baldiga, D 1978-1981

West Berlin at the end of the 1970s: a new generation is looking for the truth of being amongst the debris of the past. The "nouveau sauvage" (Neue Wilden) establish the Galerie am Moritzplatz, the SO 36 opens, and bars like Schizzo, Café Mitropa and Risiko turn the night into day. Everyday life turns into art, and art becomes mundane. 'Nothing is true – everything is possible' is the sign of the times. The films of 'Alle Macht der Super 8' emerged at the margins and in the middle of this transformation.

Super8 technology was cheap and easily available. Anyone could work in this medium without expertise or investment. Anyone could materialize his own subjective view of the world and share it with others.

In 1981, these films were collected by a man called padeluun, himself a movie maker, musician and network activist. What emerged from this was 'Alle Macht der Super8', a nine-hour long compilation of these films that went on tour through West Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the same year. This DVD presents twelve Super8 films, selected from the original programme and newly restored. Also featured are Knut Hoffmeisters Deutschland, interview clips, and original documents. These films speak about the paradoxes of a movement that never was a movement and never wanted to be a movement. 'Alle Macht der Super8 – Berliner Undergroundfilmer stellen sich vor' gives a glimpse of West Berlin subculture in the years 1978-1981: radically subjective, riotously funny, without compromise.