- Film & Video
- Digital Art
Capsule Neukölln
Julius Falk
28 June 2024 19:00–20:00
29 June 2024 16:00–20:00
30 June 2024 16:00–19:00
12 hours and 20 minutes of mundane runner's reality between Aldi and Bauhaus. Berlin's record-breaking summer, but no reason to rejoice: balmy warmth, construction sites, bustling activity between asphalt paradise and the secret green diversity of Hasenheide.
It's the documentation of a late summer day in Neukölln in 2023, before the year sank into Berlin's winter. Captured is not only a jogging route along the Tempelhofer Feld, through the Hasenheide from sunrise to sunset, but also, quite incidentally: the vibe of the neighborhood.
On one side: just a casual glance, but then again, the grand stage for a horde of daycare kids rolling down the hill. If you look long enough and have the right soundtrack, everything becomes a movie. From the foggy early morning hours on the Berlin sea, through yawning-glaring noon hours, to a bustling-blue synopsis of a day on the picnic blanket tribune of the field. Tonight, like every evening: sunset behind the hangar; nevertheless, a full house.
Along the sometimes dreamy, often banal visual moments, this real-time documentation traverses the various soundscapes of Neukölln's surprisingly green urbanity. Deafening street noise is replaced by snippets of conversation and the wind from Schöneberg on the Tempelhofer Feld, before another wave of asphalt noise on the Columbiadamm heralds the intricate calm of the Hasenheide. In between: everyday conversations while running past, music snippets from Bluetooth speakers, bands in the Hasenheide, street musicians in the field, a singing jogger, the Ringbahn. Beneath it all: the metronome of steps and breath.
740 minutes of video with sound. Starts at 06:40 and ends at 19:00. You can drop by at any time.
It's the documentation of a late summer day in Neukölln in 2023, before the year sank into Berlin's winter. Captured is not only a jogging route along the Tempelhofer Feld, through the Hasenheide from sunrise to sunset, but also, quite incidentally: the vibe of the neighborhood.
On one side: just a casual glance, but then again, the grand stage for a horde of daycare kids rolling down the hill. If you look long enough and have the right soundtrack, everything becomes a movie. From the foggy early morning hours on the Berlin sea, through yawning-glaring noon hours, to a bustling-blue synopsis of a day on the picnic blanket tribune of the field. Tonight, like every evening: sunset behind the hangar; nevertheless, a full house.
Along the sometimes dreamy, often banal visual moments, this real-time documentation traverses the various soundscapes of Neukölln's surprisingly green urbanity. Deafening street noise is replaced by snippets of conversation and the wind from Schöneberg on the Tempelhofer Feld, before another wave of asphalt noise on the Columbiadamm heralds the intricate calm of the Hasenheide. In between: everyday conversations while running past, music snippets from Bluetooth speakers, bands in the Hasenheide, street musicians in the field, a singing jogger, the Ringbahn. Beneath it all: the metronome of steps and breath.
740 minutes of video with sound. Starts at 06:40 and ends at 19:00. You can drop by at any time.
Biography
Julius Falk
Julius Falk has lived for 36 years - the last 10 in Neukölln - and has been documenting his life with a camera for a good 20 of them. He prefers to look at the inconspicuous and the everyday in order to highlight and capture it. Ever since he "borrowed" his father's old Minolta, the boxes of photo bags from various drugstores have been piling up, asking him to "do something with it". Recently, he has also added towers of external hard disks with video footage of shaky moments and snippets of light. He prefers to sit at Erika & Hilde on Weigandufer, where fortunately only the Franconian beer reminds him of his homeland, listen to music, watch the hustle and bustle through the large windows and think about what to do with it.