Filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt transforms German industrial landmarks into "alienated places" for his latest film, which sees actor Cate Blanchett take on 13 personas while reciting art declarations.
Rosenfeldt, a German artist and former architect, first presented Manifesto in 2015 as a multi-screen gallery installation.
He has now expanded the project into a film, which was shot almost exclusively in Berlin. It makes use of an array of industrial locations, which Rosenfedlt refers to as examples of "anti-architecture".
They include spy tower Teufelsberg, the Vattenfall waste resource centre, the Klingenberg power plant and the library of the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Brandenburg University of Technology.

"On a hidden level, the film is a life declaration to Berlin, although I don't depict Berlin as Berlin," Rosenfeldt told Dezeen.  "There are no emblematic buildings that people know and recognise." "I used a lot anti-architecture, like the Klingenberg CHP plant that is in West Berlin, but looks like East Berlin," he continued. "It is that big incineration plant that exists in every big city, but we are never aware of that architecture."

Produced in 12 days, the film is a compilation of more than 50 artist declarations from the past century, from movements including surrealism, situationism, futurism and dada.  It is recited by 13 characters, all played by Australian actor Cate Blanchett.
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