In Kreuzberg there stands a house, smack in the middle. The bent highrise is meandering, speeding up, turning around, straddling over, cutting through streets and city blocks. The motor roars as the city flies by behind long bands of windows. 11 floors 300 apartments 6 meters from the bumper to the tailfins. The 76' Cadillac Sedan Deville, is as old as the building. With bright eyes at the wheel is an elderly gentleman, flooring the gas pedal. Johannes Uhl is the architect. He built it when an expressway was about to hit Kreuzberg. His long building was just the beginning for another city to be built right at the edge of the traffic stream!
This is the key to another Kreuzberg. It is made up of a booklet/poster and a digital map that let's you come across and explore KOBUTO the way we once did!
✕ Kobuto
Trailer
Credits:
written and directed by: Peter Behrbohm
with: Masen Khattab and Johannes Uhl
camera: Johannes Waltermann and Peter Behrbohm
music: Otis Sandsjö
on: Lorenz Fischer
editing: Peter Behrbohm
drawings, plans and historical photography: Johannes Uhl
camera assistance: Markus Bühler and Albert Herrmann
production assistance: Martin Behrens, Sebastian Jünger, Daniel Ripplinger and Lucie Waschke
set photography: Ilkan Kir
technical equipment: Markus Bühler, Lilian Nix and Tom Rotsching
driver: Julian Pommer
collage: Peter Behrbohm
programming: Franz Zieris
translation: Eric Zapel
many thanks to: the Diergard family and the Monarch team
The project can be ordered here as a booklet that gives access to the map and the film: KOBUTO - FIRING ORDER
The project was made possible by the NaFöG grant given by the city of Berlin.