A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Direction
Siegert lets architects hang themselves with their own pretension.
Production
Time-capsule footage of a city awkwardly dressing for its future.
Director
Hubertus Siegert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the 'New Berlin' boom, the film captures architects treating reunification as a blank canvas—erasing East German memory in real time.
Rem Koolhaas appears as a prophetic trickster, mocking the very projects he's designing. The edit knows exactly what it's doing.
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