Excelsior

I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext for communication between two people, the link that allows them to continue writing to each other, the intermediary between two desires.

Students from nine nations unite on August 7, 1950 at the Franco-German border near Germanshof, tear down the barriers and remove the border posts and barriers, which they burn in a ceremony. This act is a commitment to Europe and a protest against the arbitrariness of borders between nations.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Affectionate portrait of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses.

Die Blitzzugjagd

Documentary about the "Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit", a communist workers' sports association in the final phase of the Weimar Republic.

Fragments of fairy tales alternate with observations of children. Documentary and staged sequences are combined. There is no break and no contrast between reality, the children's behavior and the imagination; they merge into one another.

Short documentary about eels

Documentary about Borneo, the island of beauty, passion and demons

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.

The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African expeditions.

It has been over one hundred years since M. K. Čiurlionis left his lasting imprint on Lithuanian culture. He was a composer, painter, genius, and madman who created an entirely new space, new context, and new universe.

The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.

A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.

The film shows the manufacture of a luxury edition of "Mein Kampf" on real parchment, handwritten.

The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The necessity of erecting the border is illustrated by comparing the situation in 1939 and the situation in the summer of 1961 with regard to the "threat of intervention" by the Western powers. Berlin people and GDR border guards are interviewed.

Routine Pleasures, Slow Cinema.

A short film featuring a coastal forest and the rocky coastline of downeast Maine.