Directed by Roser Corella | Germany, Austria, 2021 | 73 min. // CPH DOX 2021 // A thought-provoking gaze of the exploitative migration and the terrible dilemmas facing women who must choose between earning and caring their own children. The film drives the realities underlying the domestic work and care solutions found by Middle Eastern countries, as Lebanon. These solutions do not address continuing gender inequalities, and all too often rest on the exploitation and even dehumanization of the women who actually provide the care of children and do all the domestic work in the houses of middle and upper-class families. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf | France, United Kingdom, 2019 | 132 min. // Berlinale Forum 2020 // Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole. The result is an experiment in three parts: a study retracing Louverture’s steps, an analysis of shared authorship and collective filmmaking and finally the outburst of a magical reality in which the spirits of the dead are alive. [sound design, dialog editing]

Directed by Filipa César | Germany, France, 2020 | 40 min. // Forum Expanded Exhibition 2020 // Quantum Creole is an experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Beina Xu | Germany, 2020 | 19 min. // IFFR 2020 // A film crew retraces the path of a refugee’s journey. They hope to reconstruct a memory landscape, but are instead confronted by the artifice of documentary. Bystanders interject with their opinions on how to make better use of their time. What is a story, and whose right is it to tell? [sound design, mix]

Directed by Karam Ghossein | Lebanon, Germany, 2017 | 22 min. // Berlinale Shorts 2017 // In Street of Death the narrator revisits the site of his youth – a lawless slum suburb pushed up against Beirut airport, where vendettas, crime, displays of power and raucous street weddings punctuate daily life. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Cyrill Lachauer | Germany, 2017 | 22 min. // Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2017 // The film begins in Los Angeles und retraces the field trips into the Southwest assumed to have been taken by the controversial anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, a founder of the New Age movement. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Hilla Peleg | Germany 2016 | 70 min. // Berlinale Forum Expanded 2016 // Sign Space follows the installation of an art exhibition. From the building of false walls up to the moment the exhibition opens its doors to the public, the film tracks the many considerations, both formal and procedural, that go into staging an art show.  An exhaustive observation of this process reveals how, in providing a highly codified type of setting for our apprehension of art, contemporary exhibition spaces are as much a deliberate construction as any artwork. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Clémentine Roy, Gústav Geir Bollason | France, Iceland, 2017 | 60 min. // IFFR 2017 // On a deserted peninsula, a group lives amidst relics from contemporary society. Part of a plane serves as a sheep shed, a car inner tube as futuristic Tupperware. [sound design, mix]