Screening 2025 in Media Lab of the Media Workshop / Kunstquartier Bethanien

"SARABOFORNIA" | 2025 | 3:06 minutes | Video Art (one-channel installation)

Through a staged tourist guide overlaid with raw 3D fragments, the video invites viewers into the fictional planet Sarabofornia — a landscape where spectacle, bureaucracy, and cultural clichés collide with the unresolved realities of war and displacement.

"Hunger – so etwas Ähnliches" | 8:42 minutes | 2012

Hunger – or something very similar – are actors and actresses from the neighborhood who reconstruct a scene in the forest that the artist observed in the city. It was the image of an elderly man in a white T-shirt who indignantly asked people on the subway to help him because he was hungry. The energetic, indignant begging in the city was given attention through the reconstruction in the forest setting of the Schönholzer Heide.

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"C0428" | 5:10 minutes | 2024 | single-channel video, 16:9, 4K

Image and audio recording, the sound produced by ants, rain, and the wind.

IUXTA | 10 minutes (excerpt) | 2022 | experimental video | originally a 2-channel video installation

IUXTA (Latin for “next door, beside, very close by”) takes the form of a dialogue between Berlin and the Danish island of Møn in the form of a video letter. Through the exchange of images and sounds, these enter into a shared space of thought and create an echo in responses, associations, and memories.

„Wo bleibt die ‚Halle für Alle‘?“ | 8:40 minutes | 2025 | With sound/ DOK and Trick

DOK 1 of the “Fair Share” campaign in front of the Berlin National Gallery on March 8, 2022.
Trick montage with the boxer to remind people of the “Hall for All” that bbk berlin has been demanding for a long time in the Tempelhof airport buildings, which have been EMPTY for 80 (!) years.
DOK 2 from the demonstration against austerity measures in the cultural sector in Berlin on November 29, 2024.

 "Wald" | 2:21 minutes | 2020 | Language: German

This video was made after a bike tour with my colleague Angela Lubic through Brandenburg as part of the annual project by Endmoräne e.V.

"How long is now" | Performance: Iris de Boor | 5:20 minutes | 2022

The intangible, solidarity, represented by hands, grasping, togetherness, searching and reaching, clinging, etc.... everything that hands represent in a church interior, recorded with performer Iris de Boor, who “incorporates” the deconsecrated St. Johannes Church on Auguststrasse. Musical and visual scenes between the altar area, sound dome, and column labyrinth. An interaction between light, sound, and the vastness of the nave of St. John the Evangelist Church in Berlin-Mitte.
Dance traverses the time axes of a ‘heavenly place’ in the rhythm of the movements, creating intangible images; an energetic moment that is traced until it begins to ‘vibrate’.
 

"Reversal Exercise" | 5 minutes | 2024 | Video loop | Language: English, German, Italian

The video work "Reversal Exercise“ reveals the working process of the series "You Are Mine": We see a computer screen and watch as a cursor changes the gender in reports about femicide in real time. Here the viewer takes the place of the artist sitting behind a screen and witnesses how the narrative swiftly and dramatically changes with a simple yet subversive gesture.

"Tornosolada Sororidad Dada" | 4 minutes | 2019 | 16mm projection | silent film

A film in which the idea of passing objects from one hand to another forms the plot. A collaboration between two different artists, two generations. Developed at different temperatures to create four original films.

"Always Never Always" | 6:10 minutes | 2017 | Language: English

The video consists of footage that partly shows my working process—ink and brush—as well as movements and encounters with nature. The footage is accompanied by a song by OFRIN (video artist and musician), who also produced the entire video “Always Never Always” and was largely responsible for the idea behind it. The work is about touch and encounter, the longing for them, and the fact that we are almost never able to satisfy this longing. But it is also about duration, endurance, a movement within us, connectedness.

"Hell" | 2:38 minutes | 2025 | 16mm Film | Language: English

Evil’s real
Solidarity requires solidity of values despite consequences, for the betterment of humanity hell must be visible.

"Solidarity!" | 3:55 minutes | 2025 | 3D-Animations, time-lapse images with digitally created sound

The aurora borealis is a collective phenomenon—no one owns it, it belongs to everyone who sees it.
Solidarity works in a similar way: it is only possible when people share a common experience (or goal).

"IchundIchs" | 8:17 minutes | 2022 | two-channel video | Language: English

An unsettling, theatrical, and at the same time humorous work that revolves around an everyday yet existential question: Who am I today? Through this multi-layered self-portrayal, I question concepts of authenticity, authorship, and identity in the digital age. IchundIchs explores how identity can be constructed, divided, and multiplied—both through performance and technology.

“KHMYZ" | 8:34 minutes | 2023
Experimental music & mixed media art from Ukraine in Berlin Lichtenberg

Due to the war in Ukraine, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe has provided funds to give Ukrainian artists who are staying in Berlin because of the war the opportunity to present their art.

"Making Of" | 10 minutes | 2025
Language: German, partly English

“Making Of” depicts in images, sound, and words the circumstances surrounding the production of a work by editor/cutter/composer Hobby R.

"Ú-C-R-Á-I-N" | 08:01 minutes | 2024 | Language: Irish

Footage of Straw bales on the outskirts of Cambridge, as a contemplation on the absurdity and necessity of codifying art as a war protest

"HEAD" | 4:55 minutes | 2022 | Sprache: Englisch | Song of the Album: Lunatic Asylum

Everyone has a head in some way or another - yes, sometimes right where clichés, hatred and exclusion tend to settle - but this sober observation could also be disarming as a simple common denominator. This music video was created for the release of the album Lunatic Asylum as a collaboration between musician and sound artist Joke Lanz, the band Sudden Infant and Ilka Forst. A day of filming full of wild energy and humor. Children steal the show from their musician fathers and let themselves be swept away into the spiral of sonic chaos - perdre la tête!

"JOKAI FRAME" | 6 minutes | 2024 | Japanese

This is a reconfiguration of my previously exhibited video installation. “JOKAI" is the name of a villa with which I have a deep connection, and FRAME is my theme I have explored in recent years.

"Out of reach (Feuerland), „Außer Reichweite“ | 7 minutes | 2024 | Documentary fantasy | Animation (blender)
Language: Argentine Spanish with German subtitles

The project “Out of Reach” can be understood as an attempt to show solidarity with the self-sufficient ecosystems in untouched places, the blank spots of today. How can we thoughtfully preserve the unique structures that have developed there?
The film was created in collaboration with local people, with artist Malala Lekander from Rio Grande and the band built in from Buenos Aires for the film “Feuerland” (Fireland). The collaboration took place digitally, leaving the white spot on Fireland untouched.

"swift (relentless structure)" | 6:00 minutes (75:00 min) excerpt | 2008 - 2022 | Language: English

The starting point for the video work “swift (relentless structure)” are nine photographs taken at the SWIFT office in New York after an encounter with an African-American Wall Street professional in 2007 and a subsequent meeting in New York during the Occupy Wall Street protests. The work questions the relationship between socioeconomic elites, racism, class structures, and their context. The connection to the autumn of solidarity is also evident in the Occupy Wall Street chant, which calls for the formation of a working group.

„Wäscheleine" | 1:24 minutes | 2014/2025 | HD

“Clothesline” is an animated sketch that I started in 2014 but didn't finish due to lack of time.
It's about what lies/lay behind the idyll of a rural clothesline, and the failure to recognize the enormous achievements and self-sacrifice of mothers and housewives—especially older ones who are now (great) grandmothers. And the struggles they have fought, not only internally. 
But it also deals with my fascination as a child with a clothesline that is colorful in the shade and black in the backlight, and that swings back and forth as new wet rags are hung on it.

"Conditio Humana" | 9:51 minutes | 2025

The film is digitally generated in the style of the 1920s, about the silent suffering of the invisible, the failure of progress—and the burden of the present. In a prologue, three lamentations, and an epilogue, a visual lament about the human condition unfolds—inspired by Carl Theodor Dreyer and his masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Fragmentary scenes show refugees, homeless people, elderly people – embedded in a world of broken solar panels, toxic landscapes, and abandoned industrial fragments.
Intertitles accompany the images with quiet anger and melancholic clarity. They reflect the pursuit of the wrong things, the forgetting of those who suffer – and the silent responsibility we bear for one another.
A cinematic lament – and at the same time a quiet gesture of solidarity with those who are not seen

"Urban Sociology / Bizim Rental Politics" | 4:23 minutes | 2015 | Language: German

Rental politics and solidarity / Bizim Kiez and Kotti & Co / Berlin 2015 / Gentrification

"Song of the Open Road" | 8:38 minutes | 2025 | Experimental video, 360° video, animated charcoal drawing, 2D & 3D digital animation | Language: English

Inspired by Walt Whitman's poem of the same name, “Song of the Open Road” combines charcoal animation with digital 2D/3D techniques and 360° video to create a poetic journey between freedom and social constraints. The transformations of lines, planets, and hybrid beings give rise to a vision of solidarity and community on the shared path of life.

“10 Minutes of Solidarity” | 10 minutes | 2025 | Language: German and English

The beginning of research into solidarity and happiness in a capitalist society.

"Bruna Double" | 1:06 minutes 

The dog, doubled by reflection, behaves in solidarity with its “second self.”

"ABURIDASHI Assortment: Video Letters written in invisible ink" | 9:24 minutes | 2022 | Language: Japanese, English subtitles

This work is an experimental documentary animation by the traditional Japanese technique of "ABURIDASHI". And it's consists of three parts: Beginning, Middle, and End.
"Beginning" - is a personal video made to celebrate my friend Hiratake-san.
"Middle" - is about Hiratake-san's anger at the government responses to the Great East Japan
earthquake.
"End" - is about the fear of war in which get involved individuals.
This work depicts how my perspective changes from an individual to a nation over a period of 10 years.
 

"Bis-cuire” | 5 minutes | 2025

Let's cremate Grandma again. Together, as my selfishness dictates,In that room,In my room.

"Alltagsheld*innen"  | 5:18 | 2025 | Language: German

The video shows women on an escalator who want to go up. 
They try again and again, and again, but there is an algorithm that makes them run backwards. Nevertheless, they don't give up, show solidarity, and remain optimistic. That makes them heroes.

"ACCEPTING CHANGES" | 8:30 minutes | Languages: English, German, Arabic

In a dynamic world where people are constantly on the move, this work reflects on change, displacement, and the shifting balance between belonging and alienation. It follows a couple who recently moved from Egypt to Berlin, stepping into a furnished suburban apartment, where they interact with their new environment, everyday objects, and a visitor.

"as long as people are" | 5:32 minutes | 2025 | (Audio only)

How can we become aware of ourselves as part of a social organism and develop our social systems in a spirit of solidarity? In this participatory audio work, I reflect on some of the obstacles that I currently perceive as particularly acute—e.g., competitive pressure, isolation, egocentricity, wars—and invite listeners to join in humming along in a soundscape of hummed Solfeggio frequencies.

„How do you love?“ | 4:05 minutes | 2025 | Language: English

The video for “How do you love?” is a long time coming. It started with the idea shooting some of the best locations in the BVG system. I wanted to create an Escherian universe that would symbolize the emotional landscape of a relationship that ends but doesn’t seem to end.

"Visual Voices in Disremembered Histories" | 10:48 minutes (excerpt) | 2024 | Language: German with English subtitles

"Visual Voices in Disremembered Histories" (2024) is a 4-channel video installation commissioned for the exhibition Echoes of Brother Countries at the House of World Cultures as my contribution to the exhibition. Like the other interviewees from Mozambique, Vietnam, and Angola, Dito Tempe was a contract worker in the former GDR. I also interviewed artists from Cuba and Egypt and contemporary witnesses who came to East Germany to study. All of them, except for Dito Tempe, remained in reunified Germany.

„Sacrifice" | 3:42 minutes | 2024

The final scene shows the lonely death struggle of mole crickets collected by a gardener and locked in a bottle. 
It makes me think of people who are locked up and fighting for their survival.