A Home in Memory
What is it like to abandon a home which carries traces from several generations? The short film shows an almost 300-square-metre apartment in the very centre of Helsinki and how it is being emptied,...
What Remains
The household of a Lisbon family is disbanded after a century. While the camera accompanies the further path of the furniture and objects left behind, a fragmentarily mounted exchange of letters off-...
On Broadway
Recorded during fall 2008 inside a basement ‘mosque’ in downtown Manhattan. This film endeavours to re-examine the relation between time and space, a subtle investigation of the ordinary spaces that...
Ceuta's Gate
Ceuta’s Gate is a series of reconstructions and theatrical re-enactment, within a studio set, of the diverse situations in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish enclave in the north of Morocco, opposite Spain...
Life in Wittstock
In 1974, the filmmaker began his 23-year journey of filming the women workers in a newly built textile factory in the town of Wittstock, East Germany. Life in Wittstock is the fifth instalment in the...
Modern Times in Wittstock
Although the director had planned to end the Wittstock documentary series at Life in Wittstock, he continued the project to capture the changes taking place in East Germany after the German...
Wittstock, Wittstock
A new kind of normality has taken hold in Wittstock, which the filmmaker has captured for us for the one last time. The big factory is no longer there. As for the three women workers, Elsbeth goes to...
March Brandenburg Bricks
Spring, 1989: For exactly 100 years, the brick-making industry has determined the rhythms of life in Zehdenick, a small town north of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg. Veteran and young brickmakers...
March Brandenburg Heath, March Brandenburg Sand
The second instalment of March Brandenburg trilogy captures the conversations taking place in Zehdenick during the weeks leading up to the first free elections in spring 1990. Including previously...
March Brandenburg, Inc.
The final instalment of March Brandenburg trilogy moves away from the town of Zehdenick in order to focus on the rural areas north of Berlin. Made in the period between the currency union in East...