Language: German

  • Steherrennen

    Cyclists race around a velodrome in circles. The images are layered and elide the figures moving in varying directions and at different speeds, giving an effect of movement that propels forward yet remains fixed all at once. “For when you’re running in circles you don’t get far.” —   60th  International Short  Film Festival Oberhausen

  • Pratersauna – The final round

    Pratersauna The final round Vienna! That is Sissi, the Opera, Lipizzaner and Sacher Cake. (Is it really just this?) Or is there more? Worldknown DJs like Apparat, Oliver Koletzki, Acid Pauli or Kerri Chandler had a special relation to this city and it wasn’t because of the Opera and the beautiful horeses in Vienna. After seven glorious years, one of the most influential clubs, the Pratersauna, closed its doors in Vienna. No other club had such a massive influence that changed the techno party scene in the city. Other clubs worked differently than the Pratersauna. For many people the Pratersauna…

  • Rettet das Feuer (Rescue The Fire)

    Berlin, 1993. Photographer and artist, Jürgen Baldiga, battles HIV. In the 1990s, the AIDS epidemic reached its climax, to which no one was prepared. Infected bodies and their stories diminish, erasing their existence. Through the death of his friends and subsequently his own, Baldiga becomes the chronicler of his time: “I am taking a picture. I photograph the world. I exist.” Identity and history disappear without the persistence of memory. Until the final days of his life, Jürgen documents the exodus that seizes him. Rettet das Feuer (Rescue the Fire) directs the gaze to a piece of West Berlin history…

  • LUCA (m/f/x)

    Society distinguishes between two sexes: male and female. In Germany there is a new law for a new legal gender “divers”. „Divers“ refers to a gender spectrum between male, female and beyond. “I feel my own sex very changeable, it never feels like I am a man or a woman. But only a body to which belongs a spirit and a mind that creates“. This is how Luca describes themself and unites alleged characteristics of both classical sexes in his appearance. Although Luca has experienced antipathy and even physical violence, because of appearance, Luca would never stop being themself.

  • Ofenheizung: Portrait of a Stove

    In Berlin in the year 2020, there are still homes that rely on coal stoves for heating, despite their ban in 2015 by the Federal Emission Control Ordinance. This short film is a portrait of one of those stoves, the maintenance it requires of the inhabitant of the home it’s in, and what it means for its Kiez, Kreuzberg.

  • Housebound

    The film combines a scene taken from the movie Copycat (1995) with footage of my editing the film. It is a reflection on the idea of artistic originality as well as the art world’s constant desire to instantly transform everything – even the current health crisis – into works of art. Housebound was commissioned by this year’s edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. It is my contribution to the festival’s discussion: “Can and should one make films now?”

  • Dein ist

    A lecture on language in German.

  • Another Europe

    An essay film rooted in experimental cinema and queer storytelling. A female narrator (fellow artist Kathi Hofer) provides the voice over for this film, making it a reflection on my life and my journey through Europe from 2019-2020. Associative spaces unfold. A train of thoughts. The boundaries between factual and memories become a blur. How much of my personal story can be read more globally? Visual portraits of Europe’s faraway places away from typical tourist hot spots provide the mise en scène for this film. Landscapes in transition, pictures of movement, visually resembling the long journeys I have undertaken using…

  • Teta, Opi & Me

    Filmed entirely with an iPhone, Teta, Opi & Me is a tribute to conformity, tolerance and courage. It is a poetic, meditative, multilingual, and feeling-driven short film, documenting the intricacies of the artist’s playful process in capturing her grandparents’ enduring romance through social, political and racial adversity. He comes from Bethlehem, Palestine and she comes from Vienna, Austria. Incorporating poetic filmic scenarios, vérité scenes, interviews, and home movies, the work is an intergenerational dialogue that explores themes of family, love, and the intermingling of cultures.