Berlin

Once Bonanza was booming: there were 6,000 inhabitants, 36 saloons, seven dance halls and innumerable prostitutes. Now there are just five houses and seven permanent residents who live on a hotbed of accusations, gossip, surveillance and fear.

In a unique cinematic portrait of a desolate Colorado mining town, Berlin creates a world in miniature using a scale model of the town alongside five film screens – one for each of the residents’ houses. As we watch interviews with the inhabitants, our prejudices are confounded and questions are raised about why people choose to live in such a remote community – and to what extent it is a community at all.