David Lamelas
Time as Activity: Berlin
"In 1998 (...) Lamelas filmed a second version of Time as Activity in Berlin whilst on a DAAD residency there. Shot from a helicopter, it provides an aerial view of a city still on the brink of regeneration. Suspended above a luminous, almost virtual cityscape, the camera spirals across East and West, privileging the airborne perspective of the contemporary global wanderer. No friends or faces confront the camera, no interviews are conducted, but the twinkling fabric of an urban network reconnecting is laid bare. Technology has taken us into space, and now it directs its gaze back like a satellite, documenting not the bodies who previously performed for Lamelas's camera, but the urban stage that they have constructed. Lamelas surveys the multitude, but it is invisible and anonymous, a collectivity of illegible relations in the mode of Nancy's 'singularity'"
– Stuart Comer in: David Lamelas. The Limits of Documentary. Luxonline, London 2005. Der volle Text auf der Webseite von Luxonline.
