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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.