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  • Zeitraffer [time lapse]   photos, video

  • Zeitraffer shows the development of a Mediterranean island landscape from its original state to the highly developed and technological present. In the form of a photo slideshow with environmental sound, pristine nature morphs into a landscape marked by the first changes made by humans, such as farming and housing, and then into images of a scenery that is strongly affected by an industrial society.



  • Le métier de vivre [Life’s work]   research-based, video

  • The video essay tells the story of two male midwives in Geneva, Switzerland. Due to conflicts in their home countries (Burundi and Iran), the two men fled to Switzerland, where they became the first men working as midwives there. Through the vita of these two people, the video essay seeks to challenge dichotomies of man-woman, black-white, north-south, and foreigner-native.



  • Die Geschichte handelt von dir 2 [History speaks about you 2]   installation, video

  • Versuch einer Gegenüberstellung von historischen und aktuellen Stadtraumfragen [Attempt on a confrontation of historic and current questions about urban space]

    During this festival held in the ruins of a soccer stadium in Zurich, a living room comes into being in the entrance corridor of the former stadium. In this living room, an old television screens historic video interviews made in the 1980s on the streets of the Swiss German cities of Zurich, Basel, and Bern. During the interviews, passers-by comment on squatted houses of these times – sometimes in a positive manner, sometimes hostile. The interviews are part of a documentary produced at that time by the squatters themselves and come from Swiss Social Archives in Zurich.



  • Problemhaus   video

  • From the perspective of a descendant, the video essay Problemhaus tells a story about a family coming to the Ruhr valley in the 1920ies. To adapt to the life in their new country they change their name from a Polish to a German one. The narrator uses the cliché-name “Kryzekowski” and also in the documents which are shown in the film, the original name does not appear anymore. Gradually it becomes clear that the name was forgotten and therefore a part of the history of the family was erased.



  • Parcours   installation, research-based, video

  • The three chapters of this video installation play in three cities in the Ruhr region of Germany. There are three protagonists of different generations walking down the pedestrian streets of these cities on foot. A long camera movement shows them only from behind, their eyes fixed on what they have in front of them. They tell personal stories related to the emergence and appropriation of public space, as well as the region’s history of coal mining.



  • Fallow Lab   video

  • The video shows a laboratory where abandoned objects that are considered valueless are measured, examined, and arranged. All objects – leaves, stones, bark, paper, plastic, metal, and so on – originated from three different empty lots in Geneva. The video was shown during the self-directed festival Salefriche, which took place on these three empty lots and addressed, among other subjects, the issue of expensive living space in Geneva.



  • Terrain de jeu [Playing Field]   photos, video

  • A mother tells the story of her two sons who started a paintball project. In addition to building three large battlefields, they have also been paintball world cup champions several times. The photo slideshow shows mainly activities that happen on the site around the battlefields. Parents, friends, and family come to accompany those who play. What is the social structure in such a constructed place, and what are the differences of roles between women and men, parents and children?



  • Nächste Generation [Next Generation]   video

  • This video essay shows the activities of a group of young European activists going to the United Nations in New York, where they campaign at an international conference against nuclear weapons. For the video work, interviews were conducted with politicians, NGO employees, and activists. The video deals with the topic of nuclear threat in a time in which the political importance and media presence of nuclear weapons has decreased. Why is this topic still relevant for a group of young activists who did not experience the Cold War themselves, and what is the relevance of a film about that?



  • Augen zu Basel [Eyes shut Basel]   video

  • Without knowing Basel, the protagnist walks blindfolded for three hours in the city. A second person guides him and tells the protagonist what she sees. The spectator of the video hears what the clip-on microphone records of the urban environment and sees the things that are touched by the protagonist.



  • Insects   installation, video

  • Insects such as spiders, grasshoppers, flies, and a praying mantis are inside board game boxes. Isolated from the environment, they are projected on the three different board games, which lay abandoned on the ground.



  • Geschlossene Gesellschaft [Closed Society]   installation, video

  • Five people live in five boxes. They are filmed while they do their everyday activities. Long cables connect cameras with a panel of screens on which the spectator can see what is happening inside the boxes. The spectator is filmed as well, and can see himself on a sixth screen.