The video triptych focuses on vacant lots in Berlin's former working-class district Prenzlauer Berg where the gentrification process is almost accomplished.

Niklas Goldbach

Ghost-like figures hang limp and tremble in the overgrown and graffitied lots of a now-gentrified, formerly working-class Berlin neighborhood. Teasing camerawork makes the strange figures ever-elusive as if to suggest the untenable nature of both histories lost and new influxes of culture.

Catalogue text MIX NYC – New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, 2008

In just a few seconds, the uncomplicated clips of Haunt pose questions about development, hinting at personal sacrifices and public losses. The project succinctly connects the past – the destroyed buildings, the present – the empty vacuum, and the future - what will be built - in a flickering time lapse. What unknown history will be exhumed and discarded? What has already been discarded, covered, over-ruled in the rush to rebuild?

Janet Leyton-Grant