Last year at the 2022 Berlinale I had the uncanny experience of watching Hito Steyerl’s documentary The Empty Center in a 75-seat theater hidden away beneath The Sony Center. If you’re unfamiliar with The Sony Center in Berlin, take a second to Google it, or think back to the sterile postmodern backdrops of Brian De Palma’s Passion, in which architect Helmut Jahn’s eight-building complex plays a prominent role. The Empty Center is, in part, about the obscene land grab that occurred after German reunification, when multinational corporations like Sony, Daimler-Benz and Abb swept in to stake […]
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The post Berlinale Forum 2023: The Trial, De Facto, Anqa, I Heard It Through the Grapevine first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/29/2023
- by Darren Hughes
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Last year at the 2022 Berlinale I had the uncanny experience of watching Hito Steyerl’s documentary The Empty Center in a 75-seat theater hidden away beneath The Sony Center. If you’re unfamiliar with The Sony Center in Berlin, take a second to Google it, or think back to the sterile postmodern backdrops of Brian De Palma’s Passion, in which architect Helmut Jahn’s eight-building complex plays a prominent role. The Empty Center is, in part, about the obscene land grab that occurred after German reunification, when multinational corporations like Sony, Daimler-Benz and Abb swept in to stake […]
The post Berlinale Forum 2023: The Trial, De Facto, Anqa, I Heard It Through the Grapevine first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Berlinale Forum 2023: The Trial, De Facto, Anqa, I Heard It Through the Grapevine first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/29/2023
- by Darren Hughes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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