Bauteilbörse Bremen is an association which collects and re-sells construction components from demolished or abandoned buildings. In the short film TOPPLED FROM THE HORIZONTAL AXIS’ Karin Strohmeier, a member of Bauteilbörse Bremen and the artist visit the former Bremen State Central Bank building with a camera. A series of conversations emerge inside the building, tackling the binary systems of ‘glorification’ and ‘denial’. While the real estate industry aims to profit from the symbolic wreckage of the former Bremen State Central Bank, the goal of the Bauteilbörse Bremen is not to preserve an ‘identity’, but the circulation of material.