recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers alberto herskovitz political scientist lawrence murphy. the 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click keywords in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 east german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anyone in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and we have one of the curators at the open memory box project with us has the 5th has joined us here in our studio. this is really interesting this project what were you looking to achieve with this where we really understood that this was a big treasure but it all began with the hope to find some media that would help us to talk to people about their experience in germany beyond. the black and why thinking. that everything was bad and not only that but also western used to look upon each other in a way that i felt. i was as