GRENZGÄNGER chronicles the unique border areas and living situations created by the Berlin Wall. When it was illegal to take any pictures of the Berlin Wall from the East German side, artist Jakobine Engel did just that.

She traveled Berlin from north to south and east to west, and photographed the wall and its surrounds from the same geographic standpoints in both West Germany and East Germany. The work compares and contrasts life on the eastern and western sides of the wall. The pictures from the west side were made with a movie camera and include pans and tracking shots. In contrast, the images from the east side are all still photographs - it was too risky in the1980's to film openly. The visual presentation of the wall and its border areas is accompanied by a radio play of the same name by Jan Rys.