in the space of a square
berlin alexanderplatz. winter 2007/ongoing.

a normal day at alexanderplatz: still from IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, berlin ongoing workers: still from IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, berlin ongoing text (you have nothing to do with this): IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, berlin ongoing pile of trash: still from IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, berlin ongoing shop window at alexanderplatz: still from IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, berlin ongoing

mapping the documents, in the studio of the documentarist: still from IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, berlin ongoing
I MUST BE A BLANK SCREEN ONTO WHICH YOU CAN PROJECT A PERSON

you found this footage on an old cassette tape...

mixing footage from our initial investigations at alexanderplatz with newer shots from spring 2011, some from the future and some from the past, in the space of a square will finally face the issues we set out to expose in 2007 (the ongoing neoliberal transformation of urban space at alexanderplatz), while also reflecting the inherent fragility of thought and discourse - as well as the unpredictable fluxes of memory to which the documentarist is subject.

this must be a blank screen onto which i can project a city

having been subjected to a series of revisions and changes of perspective, it becomes clear that the document is a fiction like any other. that the fiction is a document like any other. and the capacity for fiction to represent truth is a function of its plausibility.
production still from IN THE SPACE OF A SQUARE, a paradig-matic film, berlin

a short film in 11 chapters
overview • before the space of a square • in the space of a square • postscript: presence ___ start