short film 13’47

The Way Things Last explores the emergence of self-organized urban spaces. Once vacant and forgotten by shifting city policies and market investors, these sites are rediscovered, transformed, and sustained through the care and effort of collectives. Their lives become intertwined with the spaces they create and protect, the places that keep the city together, yet always dangling in a fragile equilibrium. How long can they hold on before the next eviction?


Credits: scenario, direction, production & editing: urban fragment observatory (ufo ufo) – Florine Schüschke, Lena Löhnert, Sebastian Díaz de León, Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux
With: Ari Folawiyo, Catherine Folawiyo, Tom Frison, Cecilia Gentile, Lilli Hanada, Alexandre Kuhm, Eleonor Müller, Carmen Staiano, Martyna Stawna, Philipp Steg, Veronika Veltkamp


Upcoming Screenings:

Saturday 9 May  2026, 12:45-16h
Screening at 'Tag der Städtebauförderung' at Bärwaldbad Berlin 
Installation of the short film in the historic and today vacant swimming pool “Baerwaldbad” where one of the scenes of the movie was shot.
Adress: Baerwaldstraße 64-67, 10961 Berlin Kreuzberg
Additional program: 12.45 – 13.45: Tour through the building (registration necessary per mail); 14.00 – 14.45 Presentation of semester projects on the building by TU Berlin students; 15.00 – 16.00 Q&A on the film by members of the ufo collective
more info here.

Tuesday 2 June 2026
Screening at Project space festival BerlinIn the program 'Poetic of Resistance' at makeup Space during the Project Space Festival.
Adress: make-up space, Papierstraße 11, 13409 Berlin Wedding
More information soon here.  

July 2026
Exhibition ‘Soft Spots: spaces of collective relevance and urban potential’ in Hamburg
Permanent installation in the exhibition curated by Alessandro Gess and Antonia Lembcke. More information soon
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2026
short film
Berlin, Hamburg