Pallasseum - Invisible City

Pallasstraße, Berlin-Schöneberg. 2,000 organisms in 514 living cells form a coral reef of concrete and steel. Portrait of an invisible city. Playful, combinatorial survey of the Pallasseum building complex in Berlin-Schöneberg, which creates a vision of an untroubled coexistence of urban living environments. The twelve-storey concrete block, built in 1977 according to a design by Jürgen Sawade, contains 514 flats; almost 2,000 people of different nationalities live here. In Berlin's vernacular, the building was defamed as a "social palace" from the very beginning. "Pallasseum - Invisible City" is an attempt to approach the spatial and social ensemble unencumbered. The picture surface is divided horizontally into three fields, the screen appears like a triptych. Spatial divisions are overcome and merge into a cinematic aesthetic of their own.