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"Can Clemens v. Wedemeyer's films 'Silberhöhe' and 'Die Siedlung' (The New Estate) be adequately described by Heiner Müller's category of he collusion between an artwork and its subject (for the real)? First, other more obvious parallels between the two films have to be drawn. So for example the geographical and social context of the locations of the two films: Silberhöhe' was shot in a housing estate of the same name in Halle, a large scale housing project from the late 1970s, intended to provide new homes for 40,000 people. The setting of 'Die Siedlung' is formed by the construction sites of a new housing development in a Lipzig suburb where a new estate consisting of a number of single and multiple family homes is being set up. The two projects, which were completed in quick succession, complement each other perfectly, despite or maybe precisely because of their use of completely different aesthetic strategies. Both films are poignant examples of von v. Wedemeyer's artistic interest in -- almost criminologically -- exposing different filmic and cinematic regions and genres. V. Wedemeyer achieves this by projecting different genres on top of each other and applying them in a different context (or outside the genre)."--Page 49