The film essay The VW Complex (1989), which combines historical and self-filmed material, begins with shots of a car graveyard and then turns its focus to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, which was built in 1938. In suggestive images, The VW Complex attempts an archaeology of recent German history using the example of the showpiece of German mass and war industry as well as the economic miracle, in the course of which, among other things, the Klein-Moskau barracks camp comes to light, where Russian forced laborers were housed during World War II. The factory and its machinery become a symbol for the structures of a society controlled from above.