Sweeping changes in Eastern Europe: The documentary frame in Gerd Kroske’s ‘Kehraus’ trilogy (1990-2006)
Seeking to expand established notions of documentary cinema, this essay suggests that the indexical, the evidentiary, Outdoor Seating Set and the representational are not enough to account for the work of documentary cinema in the real.Drawing on Gerd Kroske’s KEHRAUS trilogy (1990, 1997, 2006) on the lives of street sweepers in East Germany afte