The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani Sylvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the restorative "City Palace" in Berlin are the cornerstones of an analytical documentary film that explores the dual character of architectural modernism in the field of tension between avant-garde and political propaganda.
The actor Stefan Kolosko acts as a diver in the sunken city of Epecuén, where he paraphrases a text by Jorge Luis Borges, and as a curator in Berlin's "Humboldt Forum", where he enumerates the crimes of Wilhelm II. The architect Arno Brandlhuber comments on the reconstruction of the "Berlin City Palace".
The film was shot in Berlin, Bolivia and Argentina in 2021.
2022 NYFF60 – New York Film Festival 65 DOK Leipzig Viennale IFF Mar del Plata 2023 shortlisted #lola23 – Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm 45 Cinema de Réel, Paris 24 Jeonju IFF
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