Programme
Daniel Kunle and Holger Lauinger
Germany
NOT ANYMORE | NOT YET
documentary film essay
screening and discussion
18 June 2007 at 8pm
Mosor cinema, Zvonimirova 63 
(theoretical cinema in collaboration with Platforma 9,81)
participants:
Daniel Kunle, Goran Sergej Pristas, Marko Sancanin, Mladen Skreblin
NOT ANYMORE | NOT YET reflects on the possibilities of abandoned city spaces. The film presents a new generation of cultural interventions in abandoned spaces: unconventional players, projects, and visions dealing with the reactivation of "urbanness" in very different sites. What could abandoned spaces communicate to the city dweller?
Economic and demographic forecasts predict a radical change in the image of future cities. 
Uncultivated and abandoned sites become part of the everyday - they become the inverse faces of the city. But does vacant space necessarily mean a loss of the "urban"? As a physical signifier of not-anymore-and-not-yet, abandoned property in the city signals situational openness as well as new spatial possibilities. Can the phenomenon of "abandoned city spaces" become a positive one in the consciousness of the city's inhabitants?
Shrinking cities and urban wastelands - the future development of cities will be characterised to a great extent by "indeterminacy". The dimension of vacancy of buildings and surfaces has not yet established a firm hold in social consciousness. Politics and planning work with concepts inappropriate for the issues concerned. "Civil society" is, as usual, compelled to search for solutions. However, open communication and discussion is sorely lacking.
This documentary film essay is intended as a medium of communication for locally based discussions. The first part expounds on these allegedly peripheral issues 
and opens up the question of the use value of abandoned spaces: Can abandoned urban sites be a cultural space of possibilities? The second part presents an overview of projects dedicated to socially appropriating abandoned spaces; the initiators delineate the purposes of their projects, the issues at stake, and the fight for free spaces. We are presented with the puzzle of simultaneous non-simultaneity of local contexts, from temporary usage to permanent appropriation. The questions arise of the cultural use value and ownership of the spaces. The answers are not given, each site calls for its own discussion!
Daniel Kunle studied experimental film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he lives and works as a film director, cinematographer, and editor.
Holger Lauinger works as an independent journalist in the field of urban and regional planning.