CITY MUSEUM

Stadtmuseum

Germany | 2024 | 26 min | col.

A hidden museum in the centre of the city. A museum of imperceptible, erased, repudiated signs that holds together the layers, stories, and dissident gestures accumulated over time. Boris Dewjatkin's film is an anti-monument celebrating the vital chaos that animates urban spaces, the disorder haunting the city's seemingly neutral and oblivious surface which makes the traces of futures that seemed possible bloom again. Confronted with a space in constant regeneration, which destroys and rebuilds itself under the banner of consumption, the film deciphers the minimal signs that account for a subaltern world resisting the violence of progress. Between militant essay and embodied testimony, the film depicts the ongoing cultural war in our cities: a war for hegemony and legitimacy, for the possibility of re-evaluating what has been marginalized, for the city's right to be a continually reinvented collective work of art. (m.m.)