One of my favourite films: a long take along life, death, history, ideology…
The film is part of the television series Live, curated by Philippe Grandrieux. Each of the series’ thirteen episodes is a sixtyminute plansequence. Berlin was shot in Berlin from 3:15 to 4:15 PM on October 25, 1990 in the bathroom of his hotel room.
Visiting Berlin just after the Unification of Germany, Kramer faces various things. The past: his father was there in 1933. The history: genocide Nazi executed. The memory: living as a German-Jewish in the States. The collapse; the lost country called East Germany. The limit: illusions of artists and philosophers over politics. The camera: the director looks into the camera as an subject-object, talks all by himself not hiding his own agony to live in this "new" world with responsibilities as human being.
“The subject wasn’t imposed by ARTE but the form was: Hi8 video, a plan-sequence of one hour, nothing apart from that one hour of filming, no addition of lext or sound, no mix. They called this series Live, and it was offered up with a lot of oldsounding words that came out of the period of ‘CinémaVérité’ or ‘Cinémadirect’. Throughout there was the assumption that a camera running continuously can somehow access ‘the real’. I don’t think I realized how much I was moving in another direction or for how long… I was, for better or worse, involved in a very complicated dialogue between myself thenandthere in Berlin, and the many different connections that I have, inevitably, with Germany. You could say, a dialogue between myself and the reverbaration that ‘Germany’ has come to have in our histories” (Robert Kramer).
Berlin 10 90 (Robert Kramer 1991 - Fr Subs).CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi 
English with French Subtitles
A film of my collection but a rip by my dear fiend Trep: long life to cinemagrotesque group!!!
Some very interesting links about BERLIN 10/90:
"Sur le dispositif de "Berlin 10/90" - Extrait de "Voir et pouvoir" de Jean-Louis Comolli"
http://www.desimages.be/article.php3?id_article=191
"Réflexions du cinéaste sur "Berlin 10/90" - Extraits d’un entretien avec Bernard Eisenschitz"
http://www.desimages.be/article.php3?id_article=192
Robert Kramer and the Jewish-German Question
http://www.rouge.com.au/9/kramer.html