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Over the three years that they ran TV Bar in Berlin, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff used the bar as a set to film an episodic series called Paradise. TV Bar was always intended to have two lives: one fictional and one public, both relying on the same infrastructure.
The series Paradise takes place in a fictional, eponymous bar in 2023 and follows a group of bartenders as they navigate an absent boss who wants the bar to function as a newsroom. Henkel and Pitegoff selected the year 2023 as a near future — one they could move toward through a blend of speculative fiction and approximate truth. Christmas lights appear. The leaves turn green. The narrative becomes part documentation and has no choice but to follow the queasy timeline of the actual bar. It had always been their intention to close in or around 2023, when the chosen future became the present.
Paradise is about labor and performance, and how much one has to give away while working. The bartenders are all forced to read text from…
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Over the three years that they ran TV Bar in Berlin, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff used the bar as a set to film an episodic series called Paradise. TV Bar was always intended to have two lives: one fictional and one public, both relying on the same infrastructure.
The series Paradise takes place in a fictional, eponymous bar in 2023 and follows a group of bartenders as they navigate an absent boss who wants the bar to function as a newsroom. Henkel and Pitegoff selected the year 2023 as a near future — one they could move toward through a blend of speculative fiction and approximate truth. Christmas lights appear. The leaves turn green. The narrative becomes part documentation and has no choice but to follow the queasy timeline of the actual bar. It had always been their intention to close in or around 2023, when the chosen future became the present.
Paradise is about labor and performance, and how much one has to give away while working. The bartenders are all forced to read text from…
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