RENATE Is Closing – Help Us Capture Her Final Dance in Film
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They say Renate was just a club. But to us, she was a living organism — one that breathed art, celebrated culture, formed a family , and dared us to be free. As she prepares to close, we’re creating a poetic film and love letter to honor her spirit and the community she held.
And we cannot do it alone we need your help to make it happen.
SHORT PROJECT VISION
This film isn’t about nightlife.
It’s about the kind of space that holds you when the world doesn’t.
A space that asked nothing of us — and gave everything in return.
A place that held us like mirrors, and offered music as medicine.
Now, she’s preparing to close.
And this film is our goodbye.
Not only to her — but to a way of being that’s vanishing.
This is a record of what can’t be bought, branded, or gentrified.
They say it was just a party.
But they never stood in that corner at sunrise — not knowing if they were falling apart or being reborn.
This is not the end. It’s an echo.
Her legacy lives on in the stories of those who called her home.
This is your invitation to join a collective trip:
- To touch her skin — and enter the portal where masks were shed
- To celebrate with her gut — and remember we were never alone
- To confront our shadows — to face and evolve through them
- To be transformed with her heart — pulsing with the beat
- To remember with her mind — immortalizing the stories etched in her walls
- To speak with her voice — a hidden truth of Berlin’s subculture
- To carry her spirit forward — what remains, what echoes
WHY THIS STORY MATTERS NOW
Berlin is changing — fast.
What was once built on chaos, queerness, rebellion, and spontaneity
is being overtaken by capital, control, and clean façades.
Wilde Renate’s closure is not an isolated moment.
It’s part of a larger disappearance — the slow erasure of spaces that birthed creativity, resistance, and freedom.
What kind of city are we building if there’s no room left for dreams?
This film exists because time is running out.
It’s a record of cultural memory — and quiet resistance.
This isn’t just the loss of a dance floor.
It’s the deletion of unwritten stories.
Of places that dared us to become more than what systems or conservative norms allowed.
Club culture is not decadence. It’s a space of becoming.
To explore who we are — not in spite of ourselves, but because of it.
Renate was never just walls.
She was made of us.
And with this film, we honor her final voice.
If we don’t speak now, the story will be rewritten without us.
Labeled irrelevant.
Forgotten.
But we know what it really was:
Freedom. Family. Transformation. Home.
This is not a goodbye to the past.
It’s a call to preserve the feeling — before it’s erased.
She still echoes in the body.
And her vibration never leaves.
WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT?
Funding Goal: €50,000
This will carry us through filming, post-production, and screenings in 2026.
REAL TALK — We’re doing this without institutional funding.
Renate’s story won’t be told by the system.
So we’re telling it ourselves.
There’s no big production company. No safety net.
Just time, sweat, love — and this community.
We’re filming between day jobs. Hustling gear. Pouring everything we have into it.
This film will take over a year and a half of work — from interviews to post-production.
Your support helps us sustain that journey — with care, independence, and integrity.
Your support enables:
- Shoot days with Renate’s crew, artists & community
- Equipment, permits, insurance, and production costs
- Archival research and licensing
- Editing, sound design, music Studio rent
- Festival submissions and public screenings in 2026
Every euro helps. Whether you give €1, €10 or €1000 — you become part of her legacy.
Let’s give her one last dance.
Let’s give this city something to remember.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
These aren’t products. They’re rituals — poetic echoes of thanks.
€10+ — Whisper Tier
- Poetic thank-you + digital postcard (still from the film)
️ €25+ — Echo Tier
- All above +
- Receive a Memory Booklet at the end — made from your words (contribute one sentence and sent it to our instagram .)
️ €50+ — Memory Tier
- All above +
- downloadable memory collage from the film
€100+ — Heartbeat Tier
- All above +
- your name in the closing credits ("Supporters")
️ €250+ — Frame Tier
- All above +
- invite to Private pre-release screening
€500+ — Sequence Tier
- All above +
- Legacy credits "Sponsors"
€1000+ — Legacy Tier
- All above +
- invite to final celebration party of the film
Organizer
Renate A dream that danced
Organizer
Berlin, Berlin