film glashaus 2013

Shot in winter, a thick mist hangs in the air, the actors' breaths are visible at all times, Ganz and Sander are wrapped up in thick winter coats, muffled with scarves and keeping the cold out with Fedora hats. Ruby says that they already have and the three leave together to go to Chicago. To the tendency of each system to capture dominant power structures in enduring stone and concrete, the artist replies with fragile, temporary architecture: contours of buildings made out of thin threads, architectural models out of rice paper and glass, or slowly dissolving miniature cities made of sugar or wax are humane alternative designs to the immortal ambitions of political dogma. How can it be that a movie like that has never had a commercial release? When you think of films set in Berlin, chances are that the tired handful of usual suspects will always spring to mind: Franke Potente haring around the streets of Kreuzberg in "Run, Lola Run," for example, or the occasional glimpse of dreary grey concrete high-rises featured in the Stasi drama "The Lives of Others.

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