The Airstrip ‚ Aufbruch der Moderne, Teil III

Heinz Emigholz

IndieLisboa 2014 •

Germany, Documentary, 2014, 108′

Imagine an airspace into which a bomb has been dropped. The time between the bomb’s release and its explosion is neither the future (for the destruction has not yet happened) nor the past (which is about to be extinguished). The flight time of the bomb thus describes absolute nothingness, the zero hour, consisting of all the possibilities that in just a moment will no longer exist. Thus, this story will end before it has begun. Here, it is told in defiance: an architectural journey from Berlin to the world and back