Films by Nico Weber

2026, 96 min
by Nico Weber

bauhaus forever. is a cinematic essay on the afterlife of the Bauhaus. More than a century after modernism was conceived as a promise of progress, its ideas are once again under political negotiation. Filmed over several years around a closed archive and an unfinished museum, the film observes modernism not as history, but as an unresolved condition of the present. Architecture becomes a question of power and perception — and cinema an act of attention. A film about absence, conflict and t

Germany, Italy, USA 2020, 100 min
by Nico Weber

Some are fascinated by its architectural radicalism: modernist, rationalist and monumental. Others hate this building and consider it highly toxic because of its dark history. Prora, the second largest architectural legacy of the Third Reich after the Nuremberg Reich Party Rally Grounds, polarizes. The longest building in the world on the German Baltic coast on Rugen stretches over 4.5 kilometers. Prora tells us his and our story: planned Strength-by-joy seaside resort of the Nazi regime, milita

Germany 2011, 105 min
by Nico Weber, Piroschka Dossi

Each of the four films of ‘Counterattack. Art takes aim at the economy’ will present a single work or a series of works of an extraordinary artist that explores - through special artistic means - complex economic and financial phenomena of the 21st century and questions underlying assumptions which fuel what analysts like to call economic processes.Part1: MONEY – Circulation of ValuesThe Roman artist: Cesare Pietroiusti with his performance ‘Eating Money – An Auction’Part2:SPECULATION – The Sire