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Focus
Standort Berlin |
Sunday 8, April 2018 / 6 pm
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Wessen Stadt |
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Hans-Christian Post
Denmark, Germany
2017 | 0:53:25
A journey through the architectural disputes of Berlin
Whose city? is a film about the transformation of Berlin from the
somewhat run-down and neglected, but highly dynamic and flexible city
of the 1990s to today’s ever-more chic and exclusive city. Many
documentaries have in recent years been made on this issue, but
whereas most of these 'follow the money' and look into the economic
power relations in today’s urban planning, Whose city? moves back in
time to the almost forgotten, but defining architectural disputes of
the 1990s. With the fall of the Wall and the rest of the Eastern Bloc
in 1989/1990, leading politicians and urban planners in Berlin became
almost obsessed with aesthetic and national concerns, and this helped
pave the way for the ongoing neoliberal take-over of the city, since
the fundamental question was no longer asked: Who are we building for?
The film represents a meditative journey through Berlin, from the West
to the East, and from the male-dominated conservative urban planning
of the early 1990s to the more diverse and open-minded urban planning
of today. Finally, the film constitutes a journey into the complexity
and richness of urban planning. The arguments and viewpoints that have
characterized the planning disputes since the early 1990s are listed
one after the other, thereby gradually revealing what it takes to
produce a city for all. The film ends in a positive mode, but the
question remains, if Berlin will overcome the old and new divisions
and indeed become a city for all.
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Berliner Tableau : Günter Steinmeyer bemoans 100 friendly places |
Berliner Tableau : Günter Steinmeyer beklagt Hundert Schöne Orte |
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Thomas Schumacher
Germany
2016 | 0:40:00
For the past four years, Günter Steinmeyer has shared his mostly short
and insightful impressions of his elective home city of Berlin in his
blog "100FRIENDLYPLACES? | Orte die gut sind". He gives a pointed
depiction of Berlin that - despite the blog's name - draws attention
to places and situations that aren't always pleasant or "friendly".
Rather than simply write down his observations, Steinmeyer goes a step
further by subtly distorting reality with invention and exaggeration.
The texts amplify reality in Berlin, sometimes with a passing detail,
such as listing two threatened species of beetle, that actually don't
exist. His blog entries tend towards irony, bordering on derision:
perhaps a dig at the city he loves. From brief escapes to lengthy
excursions to the edge of the city, Steinmeyer has cycled to many
places but, so far at least, he's always returned.
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April 7 - 9, 2018
The FISDN presents film secions focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition. This refuse is an act of resistance against the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.
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