“Original images and sounds from the Wall, before and after its fall, through January 1990, put together like icons. Concentrated on the locations of Brandenburg, Tor, Potsdamer Platz and Reichstag. Projections of historical film excerpts on the Wall as it falls.” (From the catalogue of the 33rd week of a documentary on Leipzig, 1990). Böttcher films the luminous ray of his projector as if it were a flame thrower burning a hole in space and time.

Enno Patalas