Below is a short video made from a recent trip to an abandoned spy station here in Berlin. The location was originally the site of a Nazi training center. After the war it proved too difficult to demolish, and the grounds were covered in a great mass of rubble from the ruins of the city. It soon became a ski "resort", the mountain becoming grown over in forest. The Americans began tests to find the best location to build a listening station, where with radar they could spy on the East Germans. The wires from the ski lifts proved to interfere with the transmissions and were removed. Huge, abandoned domes and former top security buildings remain on the hill, slowly decaying.
A couple of years ago the site was one location for a feature film I made with my friend Paul Rowley. Last week I returned with the composer for that film, Emily Manzo, so she could see this magnificent place herself, and I shot a tiny bit of video and made this short.
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