Tabula Fluctuosa - About the Transformation of Heritage in the Ernst Thälmann Park
2021/22, Short Film, Universität der Künste Berlin, Ernst Thälmann Park, Berlin
Spinning around the Ernst-Thälmann-Monument as a central actor of the Ernst-Thälmann-Park, this short film by Nicolas Bobran captures a fictional journey through the past, present and future of this site and a meticulous research of the collective stories of its inhabitants. Narrated by the monument itself, which claims its own life and reveals its spirit through a first-person voice-over, this film portraits an undying body of bronze that manifests as a still carrier of memories of the past. Nevertheless, as the witness of a partial relocation and a sequence of informal appropiation practices, the monument unchains its transformation towards its decay and the rebirth of its resituated fragments into fluctuating matter. Liberated from the historical discourse of past generations, the narrator enters a journey through its backdrop, exploring its context and struggling to find a new form within this vast palimpsest.
Voices by Margarete Biereye and Joséphine Auffray
Special thanks to Zitadelle Spandau