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The Empty Center (1998)
Directed by Hito Steyerl
Documentary · 1h 02m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hito Steyerl
- Producer
- Su Turhan, Evi Stangassinger
Details
- Original title
- Die Leere Mitte
- Release date
- 1998-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 02m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German