Along with Simon Reichel, co-director and producer we created a short documentary about an initiative called Pop-Up Institut. On their pilot project the Pop-Up Institute brought together artists with and without schizophrenic experience to work together through the timespan of a year. The art created in collective meetings and through exchanging experience around schizophrenia was exhibited in June 2022 aiming to reduce stigma towards psychological diseases within our society.

A photo camera, a person, a projection. Any possible relationship to be discovered and explored while individual rhythms are at work and hearable. Raising, slowing down, sometimes going alongside, sometimes missing each other. Who is in control and how many eyes are looking? When do stills become movement and can a body ever be still? The work is an exploration of image making, the quality of perspectives and the question of how do we perceive and remember movement. It was created as a graduation work for HZT Berlin and first schown on 13th of September 2022 in Ufer Studios Berlin.

During the winter of 2019/20 I spent four months in the central arctic on the German icebreaker Polarstern. My colleague Lars Barthel and I were sent by UFA Show & Factual to shoot documentary footage during leg II of the one-year-long scientific expedition MOSAiC. Polarstern was frozen into the ice, drifting across the north pole and accommodating 50 international scientists and 50 crew members. Being part of the journey during polar night we didn’t see any daylight until the very last week at the beginning of March when a Russian exchange icebreaker arrived and we eventually set sail home. It is still difficult to find words to describe the experience. UFA Show & Factual produced several films about the entire expedition that were broadcasted on German national television and other TV channels.

CREATURE is a 30-minute dance film featuring performances of the Ben J. Riepe Company orchestrated in the Wuppertaler Schauspielhaus. The performers and their movements were set in correlation to the architecture of the house while remembering voices of Pina Bausch’s dancers set the theme for questions such as: How to deal with memories, legacy and decay during a pandemic where the future is not tangible and culture, movement and touch aren’t feasible? “Often we remember because we have lost something” says one of the dancers in the beginning. The film was realized for the Tanzfestival NRW in cooperation with the Tanztheater Wuppertal.

Between 2018 and 2021 I created about 10 documentations for the Julia Stoschek Collection. I always enjoyed having unique access to the exhibitions and spent many hours alone with the art works. Since I mostly showcased video works in the films one interesting question accompanied me frequently – how to show and edit the video works within a video? You can watch the documentaries in the archive of the Julia Stoschek Collection. Among others I was lucky to document the exhibitions of Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, A. K. Burns, Stan Douglas, Jeremy Shaw and the performances of Colin Self and Jason Moran at JSC Berlin.

The director, Felicitas Sonvilla tries to save the damaged relationship with her younger brother Silvius. Together with their friend and camera person, Nina, they leave for a road trip through Europe, visiting the places of a fragmented childhood. During the shooting Silvius is in charge of composing the music for the film, but doesn’t interact with Felicitas the way she wants him to. Between car breakdowns, fights in parks and rare moments of intimacy, the film paints a portrait of two siblings, who don’t want to understand that they need each other.

For MY LONESOME HOLOGRAM Daniel Hengst and  I worked with the novel of A. B. Casares “The Invention of Morel”. During the performative VR-Installation the visitor is guided through several steps that introduce the tale of Casares, dealing with the creation of a hologram, leading to a visit on an island where you meet your own hologram as well as others and their voices. The installation was performed twice, once at Dok Fest Leipzig in 2016 and once at HFF Munich.