Berlin's art scene: where corporate mascots become existential crises and romance is just another brand collateral.
Berlin in the 3rd millenium. Rather by chance Kai Starel gets into the newly founded CC Institute "Carl Celler Culture", where hip creative minds buzz around in bleak spaces and think about company logos with animals. This brings up art, campaigns or something inbetween - and a liaison between the designer queen Rena Yazka (Sabine Timoteo) and Kai, who becomes her model.
Cinematography
Bleak Berlin spaces shot with unexpected warmth.
Acting
Timoteo's designer queen: distant yet devastatingly vulnerable.
Writing
Dialogue that captures creative industry absurdity too well.
Director
Stephan Geene
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Geene's film captures pre-Gentrification Berlin's creative precarity, when artists could still afford to be ironic about selling out.
The CC Institute's sterile spaces were filmed in actual abandoned East German office buildings scheduled for luxury conversion.
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