Teaser: Status Quo (working title, work in progress, german, no eng subs)
E. grew up in a small village in southern Germany. Back then he was K., back then he was still her. Now he is living in Berlin, but the fear remains. The fear of his mother’s outbursts of rage and of his mother and father touch.
His grandmother fled Gdansk in 1945. She had E.’s father in Germany. A child of rape, E. was told. E. knows little about the past. It was not talked about.
Teaser: North of Libya (2023, 60min, german, eng.subs)
“And then the sea is beautiful, but at the same time it’s also a grave,” Antje tells stories about the Mediterranean while her little dog sleeps next to her on the sofa. Antje has worked as a paramedic on sea rescue missions, her partner Dariush as a captain. In Italy, Dariush has been charged with “aiding and abetting illegal immigration”. He faces twenty years in prison.
“North of Libya” begins in Hamburg as a portrait of Antje and Dariush. Their story leads beyond Europe’s external borders, while the images remain in the northern German port city. Finally, the focus shifts toward Europe’s periphery. A film about two worlds side by side.
Luise Müller (Director, Script), Maria Lisa Pichler (Script, Sound, Production), Lukas Schöffel (Cinematographer), Daniel Fill (Editor), Catrin Freundlinger (Production)
Durst (2018, 18min, german, eng. subs)
The documentary “Dust” accompanies a group of apprentice carpenters from Berlin during restoration work at the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial in Upper Austria.
“[…] Especially younger people like us, who don’t have the slightest connection to it because it was so long ago,” says one of the protagonists, describing a generation that knows almost no contemporary witnesses. And yet the young people develop an intimate relationship with the place where they work.
Luise Müller (Director, Sound, Editor), Maria Lisa Pichler (Co-Director, Cinematographer, Editor)
Dawn (2018, 4min)
To the left and right of the walls of an overpass, a newspaperman has laid out his magazines. Pedestrians hurry past, rarely glancing at the magazines on display. Only occasionally does a figure break away from the flow to grab a magazine and exchange money with the seller in a quick deal. The newspaperman waits.
Luise Müller (Director, Cinematographer, Editor), Maria Lisa Pichler (Camera Asssitant)
The human and the machine (2017, 8min)
Noise, metal, dancing bobbins. Fragmented images slowly assemble the machine. A foot approaches, hands intervene. The machine no longer lives on its own.
The tranquillity of observation and the length of the images contrast with the speed and increasing noise of the machine. A work process is described with simple tools, exposing its inherent brutality.
Luise Müller (Director, Cinematographer, Editor), Daniel Fill (Sound)