No more | Not yet

About the Film

Cities grow from year to year,

decade to decade. That's how it's always been and how it should be in the future. At least that's what property management says and that's how many urban developers think. But now, everything is changing. Cities have started disappointing expectations. Along with population numbers in general, the cities have begun to shrink. In Berlin, Bremen, Leipzig, Dessau, Halle, Liverpool and Manchester, urban waste land has begun to eat holes in the orderly cityscape. And, according to demographer and economist predictions, that's just the beginning. Words like decay, vacancy and empty lots have a bad reputation. “Orderly” and “decent” are generally thought to mean something else; empty lots in the cityscape disturb our (aesthetic) image of cultural refinement. Ferropolis - the closed coalmine east Of Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt is now a popular cultural venue, museum and park

City planners today are confronted first hand with evolving urban spaces

and they air their views in NO MORE | NOT YET. According to one city planner, most development experts are not adjusted to the fact that today, planning is more about removing than it is about building. Uncertainty is today's catchword in current urban development: no one knows exactly how cities will evolve. “One way to make uncertainty more productive... is for us to consciously allow for free space, for intentional free space that has positive, not negative, connotations”, says Thomas Sieverts.

“These spaces are opening,

and people have to learn not only how to deal with old buildings, but also how they deal with life”, explains Wolfgang Kil. He continues: “... the reason I enjoy going to this kind of area is that I always hope to catch people acting in unconventional ways. When I was taking pictures in Hellersdorf, two young girls suddenly appeared. They were riding Shetland ponies straight across the residential grounds surrounding these concrete tower blocks from the East Germany era. That was such a bizarre image... if a city can be so full of surprises, then that would be the definition of the word “urban” to me. The former Wriezener station in Berlin's Friedrichshain district harbors the world famous Berghain nightclub. NO MORE | NOT YET ponders the potential of barren land. The film portrays unconventional thinkers, ideas for projects and visions, and inspires new attitudes toward empty lots with helpful suggestions. It challenges us all to imagine and implement new ways of turning waste land into play land. After watching this film barren properties will take on a new meaning: as unused space full of possibilities – empty spaces as beacons of what is yet to come!!