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Salas most recent work Answer Me 2008 was filmed in a Buckminster Fullercreated geodesic dome in Berlin a former NSA surveillance tower which was constructed on the Teufelsberg Devils Mountain an artificial hill made of rubble from West Berlin under which a building by Albert Speer was buried The interior of this abandoned dome is characterized by an extraordinarily long echo which provoked Sala to stage a story there whose drama would come under the influence of the building The narrative is inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni who wanted to shoot the silences in a couples breakup In Answer Me the stillness becomes a loud stillness of silencing decibels a woman tries to end a relationship but her lover refuses to listen playing fiercely on a drum set to silence her Next to her the drumsticks resting on a single drum play to the echo of his drumming