Through flânerie the workshop sensitises participants to utopian cadavers and transformative places in Berlin. Participants will then create short videos that experiment along these interstices of urban resilience, utopian imaginaries and space.

Until the fall of the wall, West-Berlin was known as a tax haven and utopia for free spirits. After its reunification cheap housing and undeveloped spaces offered a vast playground for creatives and communities of all kinds. Its history left a unique mark on the city, traces of which can still be found today in the form of large-scale housing estates, electronic music clubs or communal gardening projects, amongst others. And despite their rapid disappearance and contested existence, there is still an array of places that seek to enable the transformation of communal and urban spaces now. The workshop will sensitise participants to the “utopian cadavers” and transformative spaces found in Berlin through the walking practice of flânerie in relevant areas, drawing on Mirjana
Mitrovic’s artistic research. Grounded in the flâneur after Walter Benjamin, Mitrovic’s practice de- and reconstructs the figure from a postcolonial and feminist point of view. This perspective is then combined with filmmaking as a critical documentary practice, theoretically guided and with hands-on practical advice by Insa Langhorst. This covers the development of visual narratives to basic editing. Throughout the workshop participants will develop and accomplish their own short video projects that experiment along the interstices and connections between urban resilience, utopian imaginaries and space.

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