Serie of 6 photographs of the abandoned RFZ Nalepastrasse, a former Radio Station of the GDR. This building is mainly empty, but a national heritage already. Built in the 5o-ies, it was a rather futuristic modern radiostation, a visualization of the socialistic utopia, but a failed utopia by now. We shifted scenes from Tarkowskys movie Solaris (about a failed utopia too) into the empty spaces to underline the situation.
(multimedia installation)

(Video und synopsis)
-273,15°C = 0 Kelvin
double projection
DV, 14 min., colour, stereo, Berlin 2004

The zero grade of the Kelvin scale is absolute zero, the lowest scale of temperature. After the ‘nernstschen’ heat theorem the absolute zero of -273,15 °C = 0 Kelvin is unattainable. We find ourselves in the year 2004. 32 years after Andrej Tarkowskij’s Science Fiction film „Solaris“. Tarkowskij’s hero Kelvin is at it again, but this time not to liquidate the space station Solaris but rather, the former GDR broadcasting station in Berlin, Nalepastrasse. As in „Solaris” a mysterious disorder in the station leads to dissolution, and via its power idealistic fantasies, memories and trauma materialize as „guests”. In this double projection, Kelvin’s subjective gaze glides slowly through the emptiness. Simultaneously, the perceived is the imagined, the past is the present. If the future did not transpire as it should have, does it yield the inverse conclusion that in the future the past can be corrected at will? Both arenas, the space station Solaris as well as the GDR broadcast station Nalepastrasse bear witness to a failed Utopia.

Concept, direction: Nina Fischer und Maroan el Sani
Cast: Maria Andersson
DoP: Max Penzel
Steady Cam Operator: Benjamin Treplin
Set design-assistance: Belen Montoliu
Production: Gerd-Harry Lybke, Galerie Eigen+Art Berlin/Leipzig
and Fischer/el Sani, Berlin
With friendly support of: Hausverwaltung RFZ Nalepastraße and planet.roc