11:50 min I 4K I  mono I 2012

direction, editor, producer: Mandy Krebs

camera: Felix Pötzsch

sound: Marko Schiefelbein

actors: Cathrine Evans, Roger Evans, Stefan Ewald, Klaus Lang, Klaus Kaufhold, Julius Münchow,
Kristof Meier, Dagmar Alexandra Zech

The work "Städtchen" is about the structures and demarcation of accessibility in public spaces. In a district of Berlin, men in uniforms guard a sealed classical building and escort a passer through the streets.  A factual text tells of the situation within the closed area, which can be entered only by permit. Still images portray peaceful town houses, modern and restored buildings surrounded by parking strips.
The sound reinforced the idyllic impression. With the help of documentary representation method and Reanactment the film tells the story of the place
fragmentary, but does not explain in detail: In the GDR, the street Majakowskiring was a heavily guarded residential area for military and government members. With its own infrastructure and high security requirements. Until 1973 it was a restricted area, after dissolution of the state, the road developed again to the bourgeois neighborhoods, which it had been previously. The place has not been historicized, traces of the past but also not destroyed as it happend with other buildings of the GDR government. Thus, in "town" becomes visible architectural conditions are
characterized by contemporary and historical elements. The work does not undertake mediation of specific political background. Rather, it is a concern with a discussion of the question of the timeliness of such a residential structure and the experience of living in this. The history of protection off of certain areas in the urban area follows two opposing traditions - the ghettoization and the establishment of gated communities, their number is increasing worldwide since the 1970s. As resettlement or voluntary withdrawal from these habitats are characterized by a strong homogeneity of its people, social segregation and separation from the environment. Found in GDR times the hedge built on the Soviet model "town" by military guards take place, today security systems, surveillance cameras and private security companies that work.

Jasmin Meinhold

http://mandykrebs.de/www.mandykrebs.de/Stadtchen.html

Staedtchen

The video shows an apparently empty warehouse. Only the high shelf suggests a logistic business. It seem that two mens doing their usual activities. The characters seem by their actions not to pursue a logical purpose but to be transmitter of some kind of ongoing situation.

direction, editor, producer: Mandy Krebs;  kamera: Felix Pötzsch; sound: Johannes Giering; actors: Stefan Lenz, Witalij Winogradow - 
14:00min, 2K, mono
2011

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