For more than 15 years Berlin filmmakers Ingo Kratisch and Jutta Sartory have been collaborated on narrative feature films and documentaries.

One of their Latest works, WANTING TO BE THE SAME WANTING TO BE DIFFERENT (DAS GLEICHEWOLLEN UND DAS GLEICHE NICHT WOLLEN)(1990, 98 min.) could be described as a city portrait of sorts: a portrait of Berlin as a political/historical/emotional site that is mapped out through a tapestry of individual voices, lives, everyday observations. Shying away from any preconceived rhetoric, history ? and specifically Jewish history ? in Berlin is not represented as an abstract term but in its reflection on the resent and the personal. Among the characters the film follows are architect Myra Warhaftig, who searches Berlin for buildings that were designed by Jewish Architects, and writer Jeanette Lander, who is fist seen preparing tortellini in her kitchen. As unspectacular as this act of cooking might seem, these ?snippets from daily life do not seem unrelated to her attempts to reconstruct the past. She is also shown looking at old photos of her father?s grocery store. And the care and skill she demonstrates in the kitchen suggests the precision which she must use when she models her works on the Torah page, in which a central text is surrounded by commentary.? (Karen Rosenberg) This dialectical shuttle between the personal and the political, the seemingly mundane and the revealing detail, lets Sartory and Kratische?s film resonate deeply allowing the viewer to discovery and self-discovery. Presented in conjunction with the Goethe-Institute Chicago and the Filmmaking department at the School of the Art Institute.