Filmografie (selection)

So ist das Leben… und nicht anders
AnimaDok | 13:15 min. | 2024

Muttermale
AnimaDok | 8:21 min, | 2021 — 2022

Frogs at Midnight
Experimentalvideo | 2 min, | 2020

About Duldung
Animation for Object Mapping
1 min, | 2021

Scholarship Project: Objects as Memory Storage

Originally planned was an AnimaDoc about the voices of senior citizens in Villach and their very personal objects of remembrance. During my stay in the city, I expanded the target group, as I met several people of a younger generation who offered a new and important perspective on the topic of “memory.” As planned, I was able to create an audio archive of the voices of the city’s residents and was allowed to scan the objects they brought.

Creating images with the aid of AI is still pending; however, this can be done independently of location and fits well into the later production phase. Building personal contact and trust with people was essential to conduct authentic interviews. I successfully accomplished this.

There is, for example, the sensitive 72-year-old woman who sees her family again in a glass swan. A mother of seven and grandmother of ten, she speaks about how memories simply overcome her without knowing what triggers them—how she is suddenly enveloped in a cloud of memory and transported into the past.

Then there is the 77-year-old artist who does not attach his memories to objects but looks toward the future, never ceasing to create. A refugee woman from Gambia adds that in her country, it is not important to preserve objects as keepers of memory; only a few items linked to tradition are passed down.

In total, eleven people were interviewed about their most important objects (including a Jehovah’s Witness, the founder of an association for people with schizophrenia, a queer-feminist anarcho-punk, a politically active refugee from Gambia, and many others). I also had many more conversations with a larger number of residents that I did not record, but which left a strong impression on me.

Another significant aspect was the general mood regarding politics, as elections were approaching and the COVID-19 pandemic had left many people distrustful. I frequently heard the term “protest vote,” and quite a few were caught up in conspiracy theories.