 | | "Den Strand entlang" (Copyright: Tim Berger) |
Den Strand entlang
D 2008, Digi Beta, colour, 5’
Director, Screenplay: Tim Berger. DoP: Hanno Kunow. Editor: Janina Gerkens. Sound: Wolf Auerswald. Cast: Tomy Kessler.
A man sits alone in front of the screen in a cinema. With his eyes closed. While the projection lights up his face, the man describes the scenery of the film, which we cannot see. And then ... A film about cinema as a space of collective experience.
Tim Berger
Born in 1975 in Frankfurt am Main, Tim Berger studied first at the Berlin University of the Arts, before completing postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne between 2005 and 2008.
Selected films:
2007: Die Ankunft
2007: Cadrage
2006: The Box
2003: Shooter
2002: Faces
2000: Time
 | | "Chord" (Copyright: Simon Rauh) |
chord
D 2008, 35mm, colour, 12’20’’
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Sound, Music: Simon Rauh. DoP: Bastian J. Schiffer. Sound: Ralf Schönwiese, Harald Guhn. Cast: Laia Duran Figols, Julia Szemro, Maura Morales.
A chord in motion, with minimalist sound and shimmering colours. A mythical play on archetypes: the androgynous, the feminine, the strong. An atmospheric night-piece, hypnotically fascinating, an aesthetic treat.
Simon Rauh
Born in 1974 in Darmstadt, Rauh trained in communications electronics, then studied media design in Mainz, before beginning postgraduate studies in visual communications, majoring in film, at the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design.
Selected films:
2009: Was wäre wenn…?
2008: Ran an die Maus
2006: The Juliet Letter
2004: Piece of My Turtle
 | | "Redshift" (Copyright: Rocco Helmchen) |
Redshift
D 2009, DVD, colour, 3’40’’
Director, DoP, Editor: Rocco Helmchen. Sound, Music: Johannes Kraas.
In this film, time is stretched as if in the proximity of a strong gravitational field, rendering visible the “empty” spaces in digital images that our brain otherwise interpolates to give us the illusion of movement as a continual flow.
Rocco Helmchen
Born in 1974 in Annabereg, studied media informatics before changing to film/television, majoring in camerawork, at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where he received his design diploma in 2004. Since then he has worked as a freelance media artist.
Selected films:
2009: Ein Stück Himmel
2009: Walking with Light
2006: Scapes
2002: Schienenspuren
2001: Blue People
 | | "Zi 451" (Copyright: Christoph Blawert / Foto: Tim Kaiser) |
Zi 451
D 2008, DVD, b&w, 7’40’’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor, Sound, Music: Christoph Blawert. Music: Willy Hans. Cast: Nadine Droste, Willy Hans, Tim Kaiser.
Something that at first suggests peace opens up abysses and causes nightmares: the mountains. In a hotel room, three young people get lost amid the mighty mountain setting. A (body) landscape that dissolves into scratchy, grainy b/w film.
Christoph Blawert
Born in 1981 in Offenburg, has studied art at the HFBK Hamburg since 2003.
Selected films:
2006: Zur Hoffnung
2005: Grader
2003: Picknick
 | | "Passion" (Copyright: Mira Bussemer) |
Passion
D 2009, Beta SP, colour, 4’16’’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor, Sound, Production Design: Mira Bussemer. Cast: Jenja Korolov, Friederike Ott.
“I have never really become used to existence, neither that of others nor my own.” Two women move into a hotel room. A short moment of relationship, of pause and of self-observation.
Mira Bussemer
Born in 1982, has been studying visual communications at the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design since 2007.
Selected films:
2008: experimental jet set trash and no star
2008: KASSANDRA
2007: 200g Blaubeeren
2006: Honey Sugar Candy
 | | "Stultifera Garden" (Copyright: Johanna Domke) |
Stultifera Garden
D/DK 2008, Digi Beta colour, 12’05’’
Director, Screenplay, Editor: Johanna Domke. DoP: Anne Misselwitz. Sound: Tarje Gullaksen. Production Design: Adán Hernández.
The traditional garden is a place where the entire world is represented in highly symbolic symmetry and perfection. STULTIFERA GARDEN deals with an overlapping structure of the public and the private. The continuos pan shot shifts from a classic park scene into a dystopic, mazy structure of trails.
Johanna Domke
Johanna Domke studied until 2006 at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, the Malmö Academy, Sweden, and the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen.
Selected films:
2008: Cuers
2007: Unbreakable Space
2006: Sleepers
2003: Let the Wind Blow
 | | "The Magic Desk" (Copyright: Lior Shamriz) |
The Magic Desk
D 2009, Beta SP, colour, 10’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor, Sound: Lior Shamriz. Cast: Carola Regnier, Imri Kahn.
A magical kitchen table serves mother and son as the gateway to another world. As if they had reached a different state of awareness, they realise their longings and individual tragedies. A film about an unequal relationship.
Lior Shamriz
Born in 1978 in Ashkelon, Israel, studied film at the Jerusalem Film School and experimental media design at the Institute for Time-Based Media in Berlin until 2009. Some of his around 20 works have been shown worldwide at film festivals and exhibitions.
Selected films:
2009: Saturn Returns
2007: Japan Japan
2007: The Walt Whitman Project (Co-Regie/co-director Heinz Emigholz)
2002: The Best Years of Our Lives
 | | "Zwischenzeit" (Copyright: Mischa Leinkauf, Matthias Wermke) |
Zwischenzeit
D 2008, Beta SP, colour, 8’30’’
Director, Screenplay: Mischa Leinkauf, Matthias Wermke. DoP, Editor: Mischa Leinkauf. Sound: Christian Simon. Cast: Matthias Wermke.
A lonely rail trolley under way on the railway tracks of a large city at night. Endlessly, without a destination. Very calmly. Surreal and provocative at the same time. The appropriation of space with an anachronistic mode of transport.
Mischa Leinkauf
Born 1977 in Berlin, works as director and director of photography since 2003. Studies Film Direction at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts since 2005.
Matthias Wermke
Born in 1978 in Berlin, has studied free art/sculpture since 2005 in Berlin-Weißensee.
Selected films together:
2008: Regionalverkehrt
2006: Trotzdem Danke
2005: Die neonorangene Kuh
 | | "Habitat C3B" (Copyright: Niklas Goldbach 2008) |
Habitat C3B
D/F 2008, Blu-ray, colour, 9’19’’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor: Niklas Goldbach. Sound: Christian Obermaier. Cast: Daniel Reuter.
The characters are trapped in a public space, behaving like animals out of a cage. Are they here to control us like militias, or, on the contrary, are they controlled beings, the reflections of an entirely standardized society?
Niklas Goldbach
Niklas Goldbach studied photography at the University of Bielefeld and Experimental Media Arts at the University of the Arts Berlin. In 2005 he majored in integrated media arts at Hunter College, New York and completed postgraduate studies with a "Meisterschüler" degree of the University of the Arts Berlin.
Selected films:
2008: Birds (left)
2006: Gan Eden
2005: My Barrio
2003: Greetings
 | | "Tween My Lips" (Copyright: Martin Sulzer) |
Tween My Lips
D 2008, DVD, colour, 2’55’’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor: Martin Sulzer. Music: Food for Animals. Cast: Andrew Field-Pickering.
“All I do is eat, sleep, shit and dance.” A music video about the modern man in today’s society. In hip-hop, videos usually only women get the chance to show their bodies. This is quite unfair to males. I think the male body is also worth looking at… at least in a two-minute music vid. Belly is the new booty! (Martin Sulzer)
Martin Sulzer
Since 2005 Martin Sulzer has studied at the Academy for Film and Television in Babelsberg, Potsdam. He works as an animator and director in Berlin.
Selected films:
2009: endfilm
2006: Tu was Gutes
2004: Let’s Push Things Forward
2001: Ich bin wer
 | | "Egodyston" (Copyright: Xenia Lesniewski) |
Egodyston
D 2009, Digi Beta, colour, 3’26’’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor, Sound, Production Design: Xenia Lesniewski. Music: Grönland Orchester.
Things, animals, colours merge with one another, foreign bodies become part of a whole. Egodystonia, according to Wikipedia, is the term for psycho-pathological phenomena “that are perceived by the affected person as not belonging to him or her or as alien and disturbing”.
Xenia Lesniewski
Born 1985 in Frankfurt am Main she studies Fine Arts with focus on Painting and New Media at the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design since 2005.
Selected films:
2008: Supersensibel
2007: Gerade aus
2006/07: Rot von Blut
 | | "Westcoast" (Copyright: Ulu Braun 2009) |
Westcoast
D/FI 2009, Blu-ray, colour, 7’20’’
Director, Screenplay, DoP, Editor, Sound, Production Design: Ulu Braun. Sound: Johannes Malfatti. Cast: Oliver Kochta Kalleinen, Teuri Haarla, Christian Jakowlev, Teemu Tuonela, Milan Braun, Niina Lehtonen-Braun.
In front of a bubbling primeval soup, the panoramic view moves along stretches of coast that have been built up in the globalised style of late trans-national finance eclecticism, and over bodies of water in which a hippo is fed and rubber dinghies spin about hectically.
Ulu Braun
Born in 1976 in Schongau. After studying painting and graphic arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Ulu Braun completed film studies at the Academy for Film and Television in Babelsberg, Potsdam, in 2006 and is a member of the artists groups BitteBitteJaJa and YKON.
Selected films:
2007: Rekorder
2007: Rhabarber Boy
2006: Fish Soup
2004: Die Flutung von Viktoria |
