2025 – Digital 4K – 5 min (Video Installation ; Experimental Short Film)
collaboration with Jérémie le Hénaff | Cinema Povera
Music by Uo Ray’m
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Synopsis
On the shores of a Berlin lake, a fragment of stone carries the memory of an uncertain future. Through this silent witness unfold the fragile, sometimes contradictory, yet necessary ties between humans and other living beings.
Statement
In the heart of Berlin, a lake and its shores form a simple, almost ordinary place that the film seeks to reveal in all its quiet strength. This everyday waterscape becomes a space for breathing, a fertile ground for imagination, and a site of connection – between humans, and between humans and non-humans. It embodies a fragile, ephemeral, yet essential form of the commons.
This place, which seems eternal, is nevertheless under threat. In the age of the Capitalocene, human activities – climate disruption, species extinction, the privatization of the living – endanger its very existence.
The film is reflected through a stone, a remnant from an uncertain future, a time when humans may no longer be. In its material, the stone carries the memory of a once-inhabited world, of an intimate bond between living beings and their environments. Through it, the film questions what it means to inhabit a place, to weave relationships, and what we stand to lose by neglecting it – or by making it exclusive.
Context
The context of the project “Ufer†is the impending transformation in the use and access to Plötzensee, a beloved bathing area in the district of Wedding in Berlin. The lake is a nature protection area surrounded by a low fence, except at the paid public beach (Strandbad). Until now, people swim in the lake through various entrances through, and over, the fence, causing erosion of the lake margins and degrading the protected habitat. The City of Berlin has announced the installation of 3-meter fences, effectively barring the current common access and restraining it to paying bathers.
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2025 | Make-up (Berlin/DE) • Group exhibition « Kernzone – Nr. 1: Paper Trails »
2025 | Museum Reinickendorf x Make-up (Berlin/DE) • Group exhibition « Atelierwochenende »
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Make-up Space
« Kernzone – An ecopolitical talk and practice cycle »
Nr. 1: Paper Trails
Event focusing on regulations and institutions that attempt to reconcile our relationship with the land – or enable continued domination.
In Germany, the ‘Kernzone’ is the central part of a nature reserve, where human access is completely denied, with the purpose “die Natur Natur sein zu lassen”. But what are we preserving, for whom and from whom?
The context of the project “Ufer” is the impending transformation in the use and access to Plötzensee, a beloved bathing area in the district of Wedding in Berlin. The lake is a nature protection area surrounded by a low fence, except at the paid public beach (Strandbad). Until now, people swim in the lake through various entrances through, and over, the fence, causing erosion of the lake margins and degrading the protected habitat. The City of Berlin has announced the installation of 3-meter fences, effectively barring the current common access and restraining it to paying bathers.
