Project Detail

77sqm_9:26min

Name: 77sqm_9:26min
Director: Forensic Architecture
Released: 2017
Duration: 29 min

Synopsis

On April 6, 2006, a young man named Halit Yozgat was shot and killed in a Kassel internet café. His murder was the ninth in a series of ten committed by a terrorist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU) between 2000 and 2007. Andreas Temme, an employee of Hessen’s State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was also present that same day. He claimed to have already left the café at the time of the crime.
Known for how they merge artistic and politic practice, the Forensic Architecture collective took on the murder of Halit Yozgat, precisely reconstructing the minutes before and after the crime in their film 77sqm_9:26min. Which elements of Andreas Temme’s statements are true and which are not is the central question of the film, which was shown for the first time at documenta 14 in Kassel. Witness statements are compared and sets of movements reconstructed in a replica of the internet café, while a digital simulation shows how long the smell of the gunshots remains in the air.
The conclusions that can be drawn from the research form a damning indictment of the investigative and judiciary authorities.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 - Forum Special Fiktionsbescheinigung

Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 29 min
Format: VR
Director: Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture Team - Principal Investigator: Eyal Weizman
Project & Research Coordinator: Christina Varvia
Research: Stefanos Levidis, Omar Ferwati, Ortrun Bargholz, Eeva Sarlin, Nicholas Masterton
Filmmaking Post Production: Simone Rowat
Animation: Yamen Albadin
Research Assistance: Franc Camps-Febrer
Project Support: Hana Rizvanolli, Sarah Nankivell
Advisors: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Chris Cobb-Smith

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Forensic Architecture

Centre for Research Architecture
Department of Visual Cultures
Goldsmiths, University of London
Lewisham Way
London
SE14 6NW

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