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 Louis Henderson, Filipa César | Portugal, France, 2018 | 30 min. // IFFR 2018 // Incorporating 16mm celluloid images, digital desktop captures and 3D CGI, Sunstone explores how optical technologies of military and colonial design – from lighthouse Fresnel lenses to global satellite navigation systems – both inform and are informed by Western models of knowledge. [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  Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | Germany, 2017 | 21 min. // Münster Kulturprojekte 2017 // Bye Bye Deutschland! Eine Lebensmelodie / Bye Bye Germany! A Life Melody follows the life of a couple of singers from Münster who became known for covering the most prominent voices of distinct eras of Schlager music. Combining the conventions of Documentary and Musical, the film approaches the rebirth of an industry that, in the public image, is often associated to a collective day-dreaming of foreign lands, simple texts with nationalist imaginary or heavy duty sentimentalism. Schlager as a music genre is as hard to define as it is unproductive to simplify the contexts in which it has been produced over the last 50 years. Today it divides opinions and touches both those who love it and those who don’t. [sound recording,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]

Directed by Elise Florenty, Marcel Türkowsky | Germany, Japan, 2017 | 40 min. // IFFR 2017 // A documentary that investigates experiments into conversing with plant matter, and asks the question whether a cactus could have given crucial evidence in the suspicious death of a reporter investigating the Fukushima meltdown. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Szabolcs Tolnai | Serbia, Hungary, 2016 | 47 min. // IFFR 2016 // The son of the family disappears in the war turmoil in Kosovo, in the late nineties. His parents accuse each other for not being able to protect him. In search and anticipation of finding her son, the mother comes across a strange group of neo-avant-gardists. [sound design, dialogue editing]