‘Reclaim the city, reclaim the street’ is the slogan of today’s youth in the Swiss capital of Bern. In this sense, they don’t even need to go to the Bernese Oberland for their kicks, because they can find their own climbing structures at home in their city, in the same way as that too is embedded in the street culture of Heerlen. ‘After all, as long as you exercise, you are not doing anyone else any harm.’
Just like skateboarders explore the urban environment horizontally, this represents a vertical assault on bridges, walls and buildings. Let it Baern has been created and edited in the same urban style, which inhabitants of Heerlen too, will recognise. The main protagonists remain incognito and even their voices are distorted. With an up-yours to the authorities and their prohibition signs. Good quote: just like the mountains, buildings too are not meant for climbing, so that’s why we do it.
