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The Empty Center (1998)

ALL 01/01/1998 (de) Documentary 62 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1998
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Die Leere Mitte
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
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Overview

Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The effect of the changing economy and politics on the city and its inhabitants is echoed through their physical relocation to its outer edges. In 1990, squatters proclaim a socialist republic on the death strip. Eight years later, the new headquarters of Mercedes Benz are built in the same location. The film makes use of slow super-impositions to uncover a journey across changing architectural and cultural boundaries. "The Empty Centre" tries to give a voice and a history to those who continue to be marginalised by the simultaneous dismantling and reconstruction of the borders which they are trying to cross.

  1. Hito Steyerl

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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The Empty Center (1998) 62 Min

ALL 01/01/1998 (de)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1998
  • Production
  • Original title Die Leere Mitte
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The effect of the changing economy and politics on the city and its inhabitants is echoed through their physical relocation to its outer edges. In 1990, squatters proclaim a socialist republic on the death strip. Eight years later, the new headquarters of Mercedes Benz are built in the same location. The film makes use of slow super-impositions to uncover a journey across changing architectural and cultural boundaries. "The Empty Centre" tries to give a voice and a history to those who continue to be marginalised by the simultaneous dismantling and reconstruction of the borders which they are trying to cross.

  1. Hito Steyerl

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Evi Stangassinger, Su Turhan

    Producer



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