In anderen Umstaenden (In different circumstances) is a web documentary. 12 people with learning difficulties talk about their experiences with wanting children and parenthood. And they demand from society: We want different circumstances!

Each protagonist is presented on the accessible website in several films: There is one message, one film with everyday scenes and one longer conversation per person. All the films will be published until the International Day for People with Disabilities on 3 December. We are editing a part of the films.

The BBK Bundesverband has been advocating for the social security of visual artists throughout Germany since 1971. Our film gathers different voices that talk about the milestones of the last 50 years as well as about the challenges that still need to be solved. It shows why it became crucial for visual artists to come together in a federal association - and, what can be achieved through joint commitment.

The BBK Leipzig is the largest artists' association in Leipzig and the Leipzig region. The association promotes the visual arts in the city and region of Leipzig through its commitment to cultural policy. It campaigns for better working conditions and the preservation of the visual arts heritage and works at the interface between artistic work and social commitment.

Together with the BBK Leipzig, we produced an image film that gives an insight into the intensive work of the association.

After 25 years of restoration, the Dresden State Art Collections are presenting the completely rebuilt Damascus Room for the first time. The richly decorated reception room is considered a unique example of Syrian decorative art and is to once again become a place of encounter in Dresden.

The documentary, made in close cooperation with the museum, reflects on the history of the Damascus Room and its extensive restoration. The film poses the question of what the presentation of a historical reception room means for a museum of the present.

Five artists compete against each other to win not only the title The Noise of Germany, but above all the hearts of the listeners. The combatants have shaken the horn of wonder of new music and are trying to win over the audience with excerpts from their favourite pieces.

For the New Music Casting Show initiated by the CRISPR.kollektiv, we produced five video clips integrated into the performance as well as a trailer and a project documentation.

The Professional Media Master Class (PMMC) is an in-service or on-the-job program for media professionals who wish to professionalize themselves in a documentary film practice. The PMMC graduates form a strong network of artists in the region who deal with the complex issues of our time, are aware of their responsibility as opinion multipliers, are civically engaged and stand up for a solidary, fair and equal society with their projects and beyond.

For the films of the Professional Media Master Class 2022 we have spotted the English subtitles.

A new movement: Re*mapping Leipzig is an app that artistically conveys the history and present of Leipzig’s women’s*movements and makes both forgotten histories and current conflicts visible in the urban space.

For the exhibition and curatorial intervention The Missed Seminar at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and the permanent collection of the Albertinum in Dresden we did the subtitling and montage of exhibition clips.

The Missed Seminar re-activates archival material on the life, thought, writings, and relationships of Black feminist, anthropologist, and African American photographer Eslanda Robeson. Beginning with her friendship with German-Jewish Marxist philosopher Franz Loeser and their encounters in East Berlin in 1963, the curatorial study asks, What if their exchange had been the setting for a seminar? An exhibition and conversations unfold Robeson and Loeser's unfinished political aspirations and propose an intersectional blueprint on anti-fascism, Black feminism, and techno-politics.

At the Berufsbildungswerk Leipzig (BBW), young people can try out a profession, prepare for an education or complete an education. The BBW specializes in people with hearing, speech and language or other communication impairments.

For the image film, we accompanied the specialist trainee Katerina Trujillova and the trainee Oliver Beier. They give personal insights into the theoretical and practical training in their specialist areas, into support services and living and leisure activities at BBW Leipzig. The special features of the training become clear and the BBW is presented as an attractive place to learn and live.

For the low-barrier version, we used green screen technology to integrate the sign language interpreter into the video.

Coming of Age is an interview based documentary film by Anna Maria Friedrich: Ruth was sent by her parents from Schmalkalden to the USA in 1939 to escape the Holocaust. In an exchange with Luai, who came to Schmalkalden from Aleppo as an unaccompanied refugee in 2015, a cinematic dialogue emerges about flight and arriving in a different society.

We provided bilingual subtitles for the film, and are currently distributing it to international festivals.

SILVER VEILED is a video work by the artist duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi. In a choreographic series of revelations, SILVER VEILED explores the symbolic power of the flag in its ability to contain different values and evoke contradictory feelings of belonging and separation.

We distributed the film international festivals.

Selected Screenings:
05/2021 Dublin Dance Festival (UK)
11/2021 Torino Film Festival (IT)
03/2022 Kinetoscope – International Screendance Film Festival (USA)
07/2022 Tranås at the Fringe – International Arts Festival (SWE)
08/2022 Odense International Film Festival (DK) / International Experimental Competition
09/2022 On Art Film Festival (PL)
09/2022 Futur Performance Film Festival Hamburg (DE)
10/2022 Portland Dance Film Fest (USA)
10/2022 Imajitari Dance Film Festival (ID) / Jury Award Best Dance Film
10/2022 POOL – Movement Art Festival Berlin (DE) / Jury Award
10/2022 Exeter Dance International Film Festival (UK)
10/2022 BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival (ESP)
01/2023 Multiplié Dance Film (NOR)
02/2023 Greensboro Dance Film Festival (USA)
03/2023 Festival Video[An]Danza Internacional (USA)
05/2023 Video Art Miden (GR)

The hardcore band Mindwrecked released their new EP / tape Wahn in April 2022. We produced the music video for their first single Hangman and worked with footage of jellyfish in the Baltic Sea.

The Broken Pitcher is an exhibition project consisting of a walk-in spatial installation, a film and video interviews. Based on the financial crisis in Cyprus, the question of how our financial system works and how we could intervene in its processes and change them is negotiated.

For the exhibition at the GfzK Leipzig we subtitled four video interviews with different thinkers.

The exhibition presented in the Paul Löbe House of the German Bundestag Involuntary Remembrance. On the Significance of the Wannsee Conference in History and the Present is dedicated to the Villa am Wannsee and its history.

We have subtitled four films embedded in the exhibition.

We did the color grading for the film Blast Furnace No II by filmmaker Su Yu Hsin, which has been shown since 2022 in the permanent exhibition of the Industriemuseum Henrichshuette in Hattingen.

The ARD crime series Lauchhammer - Death in Lusatia is about the search for a murderer in six episodes. The story is told about a unique landscape around the small town of Lauchhammer and the lignite mining area, a region in transition and the people who are rooted there. We collaborated on the barrier-free subtitling of the series.

The GEGENkino Festival is an annual international film festival in Leipzig since 2014. Working collectively and driven by cinephile passion, it aims to challenge entrenched viewing habits with unusual perceptions. The presentation of film and video art goes beyond a classical screening.

In 2022, the festival screened the Japanese silent film classic A page of madness, narrated live and set to music by benshi Ichiro Kataoka and pianist Reiko Emura. In the preceding panel discussion, the profession as a benshi was discussed, but also the Kataoka Record Project. Kataoka had given his collection of 3900 Japanese shellac records to the University of Bonn in 2012. The worldwide unique collection includes records from the years 1915 to 1950, mainly from the film and entertainment culture of Japan of those years.

We filmed the panel discussion as well as impressions from the live scoring and created a documentary of the evening.

The project MUSAIK. Jazz in Fugen took place on 4 September 2021 as a musical prelude to the cultural opening of the historic prayer rooms at the Marktkirche Halle (S.). As part of the ERDF concept for the renovation and upgrading of the Marktkirche Halle, which is an individual monument and cultural heritage site, the approx. 8 square metre rooms, which can be opened to the outside space on both sides of the church, are being reactivated. After the renovation of the Marktkirche in accordance with the preservation order, parallel to or following the building site period, the connection to the urban space will also be sought in the future through cultural formats and building site art. We filmed the musical opening of the event series.

The Bauhaus Residency enables artists from all over the world to live and work in the historic master houses again. Between 2020-2021, we realized 4 films that accompany the invited artists in residence in their work processes. The films translate the encounters between original Bauhaus ideas and contemporary art into an audiovisual form.

For the annual theme Infrastructure, curator Alexis Lowry chose modular, sculptural, and industrially produced objects by artist Charlotte Posenenske as the focus of her work. Writer, philosopher, and literary scholar Hannes Bajohr drew on archival texts to approach the invisible infrastructure of the Masters' Houses.

The happening 30 Hours Round Table in cooperation with the Leipzig Women’s Festival brought together social initiatives and citizens on the Leipzig market square on 25 and 26 June 2021 to jointly set an example for social participation and gender justice. Based on the voices of the GDR women's movement of 89/90, the action created a space for remembrance, in which the future was negotiated with each other at the same time.

With the documentation of the event, we have produced a manual on how 30h Round Table works, or could work.

The cultural and festival association Bruck organized a historical walk with scenic performances in summer 2021. The ensemble reenacted a court day in Bruck in the year of 1631.

We documented the play in public space.

paradoks - at the edges of documentary is a festival situated between art and moving image, which is dedicated to showing documentary formats beyond the cinema screens. paradoks is a joint project of GEGENkino and the Filmische Initiative Leipzig (FILZ).

We documented the second edition of the video art festival in Leipzig, and filmed a series of talks with the artists involved in the exhibition.

The Bauhaus Residency enables artists from all over the world to live and work in the historic master houses again. Between 2020-2021, we realized 4 films that accompany the invited artists in residence in their work processes. The films translate the encounters between original Bauhaus ideas and contemporary art into an audiovisual form.

The works created by the artist Sofia Dona and the writer and performer Mara Genschel bring the hidden foundations of everyday life to light: Sofia Dona devoted herself to the relationship between humans and animals, Mara Genschel to the claimed mastery of the historical Bauhaus.

Almost 20 years after Stefan Heym's death, his wife Inge Heym bequeathed the writer's working library, which had been compiled over decades, to his native city of Chemnitz. The filmmaker Beate Kunath, who is also originally from Chemnitz, accompanied Inge Heym's preparations for the transfer of the library of around 2500 books with her camera. Supplemented by archive footage with Stefan Heym, the result is a sensitive double portrait that offers surprising new insights into Heym's life and literary work.

We researched some of the archive footage for the film and clarified their royalty rights.

At the online symposium EmPOWERment of girls and young women in the context of migration and racism on 10 November 2020, speakers and participants exchanged views in lectures and workshops on topics such as Decolonial pedagogy, Recognising discrimination - what rights do girls have?, What can I do as a professional in cases of discrimination?, Violence in the name of honour and forced marriage - how can I as a professional provide adequate and racism-sensitive support?

We recorded the symposium and created a film, which gives an insight into the day: SISTERS* symposium

Girls and young women with migration or refugee stories are exposed to multiple discrimination (sexism, racism, classism, etc.), which is why they have to struggle with many challenges in a white-dominated society. SISTERS wants to be contact persons and role models, especially in the rural areas of Saxony and as women of colour who are affected themselves. On the one hand, SISTERS organises empowering actions and, on the other hand, works together with educational professionals.

The video presents the racism-critical work of SISTERS in Saxony, discusses successes and challenges and invites you to become active yourself: SISTERS* presentation film

"Salam, come closer and repot plants with Amon! Get ready for the tingling, because yes, this is an ASMR video."

The streaming release of Faraz Shariat's film Futur 3 was celebrated in April 2021 with an online festival. Thematically linked to the film, we shot an ASMR video together with Eidin Jalali: Plant Parent Amon demonstrates how to repot a houseplant.

For the exhibition of the material-based cooperation project mtrl in the Werkschauhalle of the Leipzig Baumwollspinnerei, an exhibition film was created in spring 2021.

In the joint exhibition, the artists from Düsseldorf, Cologne and Leipzig involved in the project relate their sculptural positions, which were developed from different approaches to action. The exhibition examines which interests the individual artists have in certain, often found materials, which strategies they use, and whether attributions such as collage, assemblage, bricolage, or accumulation apply. The spectrum of materialities shown includes mycelium organisms as well as everyday, building, or industrial materials, movement, light, and sound.

In May 1925, at the height of his career, Alban Berg met the married Hanna Fuchs. His love for her, as hopeless as it is pathetic, plunges him into a life crisis. While his bourgeois façade begins to crumble, the artistic side takes on unheard-of blossoms. Obsessed with the idea that Hanna is destined for him, he weaves the longings he has kept secret into the composition of the "Lyric Suite" for string quartet. Berg works like a master cathedral builder, calculating everything down to the smallest detail in order to encode secret messages in the music: The piece is bursting with coded anagrams, quotations and number games. This only becomes known fifty years later with the discovery of his secret letters to Hanna, which went from Vienna to Prague for almost ten years. Among others, Theodor W. Adorno, Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel served as postillions d'amour.
Guided by the desire to experience this music, thought to be completely cerebral, as an insight into the composer's emotional world, as his musical psychogram, "1023" is more than a classical concert: the audience can expect a cross-media collage. Simultaneously with the performance of the "Lyric Suite" by the Schumann Quartet—"one of the very best formations of the current quartet flowering" (SZ)—the video artist Murat Haschu presents his interlinear version of the music on three projection screens. In addition, presenter Rebecca Maria Salentin will introduce the history of the work's creation and recite from Berg's letters beforehand."

The Bauhaus Residency enables artists from all over the world to live and work in the historic master houses again. Between 2020-2021, we realized 4 films that accompany the invited artists in residence in their work processes. The films translate the encounters between original Bauhaus ideas and contemporary art into an audiovisual form.

During his residency, the window became a membrane for artist Jan Tichy, photography a communication between inside and outside, past and present. The novelist and playwright Kristof Magnusson dealt with his own working processes in video works.

The Bauhaus Residency enables artists from all over the world to live and work in the historic master houses again. Between 2020-2021, we realized 4 films that accompany the invited artists in residence in their work processes. The films translate the encounters between original Bauhaus ideas and contemporary art into an audiovisual form.

In her work Hausen for Haus Gropius, sculptor Inge Mahn responds to the existing space, working out of it, with it, against it. In her poems, the poet Sujata Bhatt explores the relationship between animals, humans and architecture.

For the Berlin-based architecture firm TRU Architekten, a film was made in 2020 about the Music Pavilions at the University of the Arts Berlin.

Our audiovisual approach moves between documentary and experimental film and accompanies the daily happenings in and around the buildings from sunrise to sunset.

STUDIO OINK, based in Leipzig, specialises in object and product design and creates customised concepts for high-quality interior design.

Produced for the It's all about the details industry meeting organised by baunetz interior|design, the film presents the successful company in a short portrait.

We have subtitled some of the works on display for the major exhibition Voices by video artist Maya Schweizer at Villa Stuck in Munich.

For the web edition of the Balance Club / Culture Festival Leipzig 2020 we accompanied the recording of three video DJ sets in front of green screen and realized their post production.

The Festival sees itself as an interface between club culture and social criticism. By interweaving discourse, art and club, it creates the possibility to explore counterculture in its many facets and to enable political debates. Balance is offensive, interdisciplinary, feminist, performative and hybrid.

Heinze regularly organises lecture days to promote innovation and progress in the building sector and to foster dialogue between actors from science and industry. The second virtual edition of the ArchitekTOUR series is themed Alpine Architecture.

The videos we produced present architects from the Alpine region and their realised projects.

Courageous, committed, value-oriented - the EJS has been training journalists according to these principles since 1995. Today, EJS alumni work for respected newspapers, magazines, online editorial offices, radio stations and TV stations throughout Germany. Many have been awarded journalism prizes. But the 22-month cross-media training at the EJS goes beyond teaching the craft. Teamwork and shared values often form the cornerstone of long-term collaboration.

Together with Richard Marx, we accompanied the 13th-year trainees during their training in Berlin.

In the Berufsbildungswerk, young people can try out a profession, prepare for an apprenticeship or complete an apprenticeship. The BBW specialises in people with hearing, speech and language or other communication impairments.

11 different training areas are portrayed in short videos. In each clip, trainees give very personal insights into their field and the special features of training at BBW become clear. The films were partly made with the involvement of the trainees. This gave the young people the opportunity to see themselves as an active and self-confident part of the film. The clips thus leave room for different focal points and yet follow a formal overall concept.

Here you can find the films.

Under the guiding principle of Open Factory, the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Thueringen is developing the Eiermannbau in Apolda into a place for many and many things. Through innovative reuse and reinterpretation, the icon of industrial modernism is to be brought back into the public consciousness, the potential of the district town of Weimarer Land is to be strengthened, and added value is to be generated beyond the town of Apolda.

For the kick-off of the Open Factory 2020, we realized a film that presents the site as a future working and creative place with workshops, studios, offices, businesses and productive open spaces.

A utopia - what does it actually look like? How can it be imagined, experienced or tested?

For six days, the grassroots-organised congress worked on drafts for a social-ecological utopia. Due to the Corona pandemic, the congress took place mainly online. Besides panel discussions, there was a broad art and cultural programme that creatively asked questions about a just, ecological and feasible future.

We accompanied the congress in its various facets on all days and produced a short documentary, a video for the fundraising campaign and various social media clips.

At the international conference Bauhaus sammeln, curators, collectors, art historians, mediators, and museum people are invited to Dessau to exchange ideas about the globally scattered object and collection histories of the Bauhaus.

The interview series we created (3 questions for...) presents their perspectives on the Bauhaus in short interviews.

The Bauhaus Archive Berlin, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are the institutions with the three largest Bauhaus collections in the world. However, the Bauhaus is not only a national heritage, but also an international one. Bauhaus objects and collections are scattered all over the world. The closure of the Bauhaus by the National Socialists, the defamation of their works as "entartet", fleeing and emigration have led to Bauhaus objects being collected worldwide.

The international conference Collecting Bauhaus from December 2 - 5, 2019 shows that the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau is part of a worldwide network of museums with Bauhaus collections. The participants exchanged views on the multifaceted provenances of the collections as well as the different exhibition and mediation strategies and, based on this, discussed questions of a global Bauhaus historiography. And finally, it was important to think about how the global interconnections can be made fruitful for a Bauhaus museum in the 21st century.

We documented the conference and edited lecture and discussion sequences from it.

The Werkleitz Festival 2019 in Dessau-Roßlau takes a look at the legacy of the Bauhaus from the perspective of current artistic productions and is inspired by the mutually facing tensions between the concepts of model and ruin.

For the festival, we conceived and produced interview films with the participating artists as well as the festival trailer.

Under the title IWV - Innere Westvorstadt: Rueckgriff und Experiment im Leipziger Kolonnadenviertel, the architectural and historical context of the Kolonnadenviertel in Leipzig is illuminated to accompany the annual program of the Leipziger Kunstverein.

In video interviews with two of the architects primarily responsible, Dr. Frieder Hofmann and Siegfried Kober, Diana Felber and Juliane Richter explore the specific conditions of the late but productive postmodern phase of Leipzig architecture in the 1980s.