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Die Parabel

2018, Photo film, 58 sec
The Berlin Senate Department intends to build a new urban neighborhood in Blankenburg South, an area north of Weißensee between Blankenburg and Heinersdorf. The area includes fields, a recreational area, a golf course, various residential areas and a commercial area. Local residents are protesting against the threat of displacement that new planning and investment poses. In the seminar, we visited institutions, municipal administrations, local communities and residents. They all look at the same problem from different angles and they all voice different opinions. In Buddhism there is a saying: ,,The Bodhisattva is afraid of the cause. The common man is afraid of the consequences''. In the video, the flight of the golf ball symbolizes the appropriation of the fields for the future residential area. I could not find out what people really think, so I used the perspective of the golf ball and the image of the trajectory after the tee shot to observe the appropriation process. The film is cautioning the viewer. It wants to remind people of the original intention before the action.

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