Paul Sonntag’s film NOTHING REMAINS AND NOTHING DISAPPEARS (2026) is a detailed long-term observation of a Berlin street corner where a supermarket closes and a café opens. The film makes this seemingly insignificant place the protagonist — and with it, raises the question of how consumerism shapes urban space by exploiting and changing it simultaneously. The film will premiere in January 2026 at the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken. 

A Berlin street corner slowly changes: an aging supermarket turns into a construction site and finally into a new building. Workers restock shelves, demolish and rebuild walls, take breaks and count money. They exchange words, gestures and glances with each other, the camera and the space that surrounds them. Everyone working here participates in the making and unmaking of the place on the corner. How does a place cease to be and another come into being? Between supermarket aisles, construction scaffolding and exposed concrete, different versions of the place begin to co-exist and overlap. Like echoes between worlds, repetitions and similarities appear, both playful and eerie. While workers come and go, the camera remains, witnessing a momentary gap, a crack in the façade, where the old yields and the new arrives. With patience, quiet humor and an unwavering eye for detail, NOTHING REMAINS NOTHING DISAPPEARS traces the intricate relationship between labor and placemaking.

Paul Sonntag participated in the Autumn School Stadt als Beute [City as Prey], which examined the connection between urban space, art, value, and exploitation in November 2025.

Curated by Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (artistic directors of Kunst Raum Mitte).

Events:

January 30, 2026
6:00 PM Screening
7:30 PM Artist Talk with Paul Sonntag

Screening times
daily: 

11:30 AM
1:00 PM
2:30 PM
4:00 PM
5:30 PM (except on January 30)

Total length: 79 min

Paul Sonntag’s film NOTHING REMAINS AND NOTHING DISAPPEARS (2026) is a detailed long-term observation of a Berlin street corner where a supermarket closes and a café opens. The film makes this seemingly insignificant place the protagonist — and with it, raises the question of how consumerism shapes urban space by exploiting and changing it simultaneously. The film will premiere in January 2026 at the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken. 

A Berlin street corner slowly changes: an aging supermarket turns into a construction site and finally into a new building. Workers restock shelves, demolish and rebuild walls, take breaks and count money. They exchange words, gestures and glances with each other, the camera and the space that surrounds them. Everyone working here participates in the making and unmaking of the place on the corner. How does a place cease to be and another come into being? Between supermarket aisles, construction scaffolding and exposed concrete, different versions of the place begin to co-exist and overlap. Like echoes between worlds, repetitions and similarities appear, both playful and eerie. While workers come and go, the camera remains, witnessing a momentary gap, a crack in the façade, where the old yields and the new arrives. With patience, quiet humor and an unwavering eye for detail, NOTHING REMAINS NOTHING DISAPPEARS traces the intricate relationship between labor and placemaking.

Paul Sonntag participated in the Autumn School Stadt als Beute [City as Prey], which examined the connection between urban space, art, value, and exploitation in November 2025.

Curated by Natalie Keppler & Agnieszka Roguski (artistic directors of Kunst Raum Mitte).

Events:

January 30, 2026
6:00 PM Screening
7:30 PM Artist Talk with Paul Sonntag

Screening times
daily: 

11:30 AM
1:00 PM
2:30 PM
4:00 PM
5:30 PM (except on January 30)

Total length: 79 min