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In the near future, Berlin is flooded. There is water up to the first floor of buildings, yet life goes on. The film combines surreal scenes filmed in an analogue model, narrative scenes played by actors and actresses and montages of both. The laconic everyday life in the city is oscillating between catastrophe and catharsis, yet the images also give hope for new ways of living in the future. Despite the precariousness the characters struggle with, their surrounding is one of a postcapitalistic society that has achieved positive changes by necessity: new architectonic spacial arrangements inside the house, a local food and energy supply on the roof, autonomy. The film therefore holds different possibilities for futures that we can approach from where we are now, hopeful and dreadful ones.

Florine Schueschke is an artist and architect living in Berlin. She has studied architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.