Dear Doc / Berlin 10/90

**Dear Doc**
Robert Kramer, France 1990/2022
With: Paul McIsaac. DCP, color, 35 min, English ☼

**Berlin 10/90**
Robert Kramer, France 1991
Music: Jon Hassell. DCP, color, 64 min, English with French subtitles ☼

Dialogues through the viewfinder of the video camera. In *Dear Doc*, images from *Route One/USA* blend on the monitor, marked by timecode, with casual glimpses into the film's production and sound design, as well as material from Kramer's personal life: “I wanted to talk with you about our shared film work, or about the character we created—the Doctor—who is you, Paul, and yet not you. He is also me.”

*Berlin 10/90* arose from the task of creating a single, uncut hour-long take: Kramer is in the city where his father worked as a doctor 60 years earlier and his mother studied at the Bauhaus: “It could have been any subject, anywhere in the world. I was a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin, and the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR, the fall of the Wall, and the reunification of Germany seemed to me more than enough material for such an approach. And, of course, there was the Gulf War, which is inextricably linked to the film.” (Volker Pantenburg)

Photo: Viennale