The 17th construction phase of Berlin’s A100 highway is set to cut through Friedrichshain, the city’s most densely populated district. Beginning in 2027, this infrastructure project will forcibly clear space for a new highway by displacing housing collectives, parks, community gardens, and several key cultural venues, including iconic clubs. As the city pushes forward with this federally funded expansion, social, cultural, and ecological spaces face erasure — replaced by concrete designed for increased car traffic in a city that otherwise claims to be moving toward sustainability and livability.
This ongoing project examines the consequences of the A100 — for climate, culture, and social living — through two interconnected formats: a completed social media campaign and an in-progress documentary.
In spring 2025, I worked as Director of Photography on a social media campaign promoting the A100 Wegbassen demonstration, which took place on May 17, 2025. The campaign was produced by a team of four — Tornado Toni (editorial), Felix (production, camera & edit), Dilek (camera & edit), and myself (DoP, camera, and edit). We collaborated with a wide-ranging civil society alliance under the A100 Wegbassen banner, including the Berlin Club Commission, Bürger*innen Initiative A100 stoppen, Gerade Denken, Queermany, Fridays for Future, ://about blank, Else, and others.
Our role was to develop high-impact, visually compelling content for Instagram and TikTok. We coordinated and filmed interviews with activists, artists, and organizers across collectives to communicate the social and cultural cost of the A100 expansion. The campaign highlighted the threat to Berlin’s urban biodiversity, nightlife culture, and affordable housing — bringing public attention to the urgency of protest through accessible and emotionally charged short-form video.
Alongside the campaign, I am serving as Director of Photography on a documentary currently in production. This longer-form work builds on the same themes — the climate, cultural, and social consequences of the highway — but unfolds them in a deeper, more immersive format. Through observational cinematography and durational engagement, the documentary centers the stories of those most directly affected: residents facing displacement, cultural workers losing spaces, and activists organizing for a post-fossil, socially just Berlin.
Our goal is to show what’s at stake — not in abstract terms, but through the places, people, and lived textures of a neighborhood under threat. Where the campaign mobilized action, the documentary seeks to create connection and memory: a visual record of what may be lost if the A100 goes forward unchecked.