Docomomo International would like to share Nathan Eddy’s new film “Battleship Berlin”, a film that explores the dilemma facing Berlin’s notorious brutalist icon the Mäusebunker. The trailer was released in the beginning of this month, and the 40-minute film will have its world premiere in Berlin on 26th June and will then be shown at global film festivals as the year progresses.
Nathan Eddy’s last film, Starship Chicago, won Docomomo’s Advocacy Award of Excellence in 2018.
Synopsis
Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire.
The city’s powerful Charité hospital plans to destroy a brutalist icon of the Cold War era: The infamous former animal research laboratory known as the Mäusebunker. A dedicated group of politicians, preservationists, architects, gallerists and university students are fighting for an innovative, ecologically and economically sustainable adaptive re-use of this magnificent, uncompromisingly unique structure.
Which side will triumph?
With the point of no return rapidly approaching, you’re left with the impression that preservation can be brutal.
Bio
Nathan Eddy is an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist specializing in architecture and urban planning issues. His first two films, “The Absent Column” and “Starship Chicago”, document the struggle to protect Chicago’s architectural heritage. In 2017, Eddy organized and led the successful protest movement to landmark New York City’s epochal postmodern skyscraper, Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s AT&T Building.
Watch the trailer: here.