Allee der Kosmonauten (2007) is a single shot – shot on super 16 mm transferred to DVD- through the pedestrian walk way in the "Allee der Kosmonauten", Berlin-Marzahn. The Avenue, named after Sigmund Jähn and Waleri Fjodorowitsch Bykowski’s, whose space trip was meant to tighten the ties between East Germany and the Soviet Union, is a landmark of what formerly was East-Berlin. Shot with the technical support of a Crane and a Steady-cam, this video presents a subjective-camera view of a walk on the "Allee der Kosmonauten", starting with a normal eye level POV, and progressively, loosening up from gravity, ascending to 8 meters above the ground in a day-dreaminess haunted by the communist cosmos, one of the tragic glories of the mechanical era.
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