films

2026. From SP19-22. About a Woman Who Is No Longer Recognizable

In an age in which digital images increasingly mediate memory, self-understanding, social recognition, and everyday experience, the central question of this work is not how accurately an image represents a person, but what conditions enable a person to flourish within an image-saturated environment. The experimental video reflects current conditions.

Blessed Simonida from the Brilliant Grounds

COLLECTION ENTRY: THE FILM AND VIDEO POETRY SOCIETY / 2026

BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL SHORT AWARDS: WINNER 08 / 2026
PARIS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
STOCKHOLM SHORT FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
MADRID ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
BERLIN SHORTS AWARD: SEMI-FINALIST 06 / 2026
ROTTERDAM INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 06 / 2026
LOS ANGELES SHORT FILM AWARDS: OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026
NEW YORK FILM & CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS: OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026
AMSTERDAM MOVIE FEST: NOMINATION 2026
ATLANTA CINEMA AWARDS: NOMINATION 2026
CANNES ARTS FEST AWARD: NOMINATION 2026

Experimental live action arthouse
Audiovisual real-time enactment / Performative readings
on contemporary issues of the political sovereign following Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards

STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES

WASHINGTON FILM AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST SUMMER 2026
BERLIN INDIE AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 07/2026
CINE PARIS FILM FESTIVAL: WINNER BEST ARTIST’S FILM 06/2026
NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 06/2026
FRAMES OF NEWYORK FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 2026
PORTLAND MOVIEMAKERS AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST SPRING EDITION 2026
POWER24 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: HONORABLE MENTION 2026
NEW YORK INDEPENDENT CINEMA AWARDS: OFFICIAL CONSIDERATION 2026
SWEDEN FILM AWARDS: FINALIST AUGUST 2025

STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES researches personal mechanisms of mystification existing as a result of ignorance or perfidious violence in society.

SP19-22-A snail portrait

Moving image of a self-portrait reflecting age in time

“PELAGUS SUBSTANTIAE INFINITUM”

Video of Noah Holtwiesche’s artistic performance of the same title: “The I as an island in the infinite sea of substance – countless words – before it disappears into silence again”. [*]

Heinz Moldau, 2008. Still aus: Alexandra Reill: Nelkengasse, 2013

Nelkengasse

Documentary film on the flight of Heinz Moldau and his family from Vienna in 1938

Jewish Life and Resistance in the Liepaja Region

Documentary film looking at Jewish history and culture since the migration of Jews to Courland, with a focus on Liepaja and Aizpute in the 40ies of the last century

jumbo shampoo or Joerg Bungee lost on the rope

The film deals with the ambiguity of velocity – its passion and eroticism and with danger …