Bodies of Water in Berlin

The adventure of Melissa and Gustavo starts aboard a red cargo ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It takes them from Brazil to Berlin, a city of perpetual movement, where the old constantly has to give space to the new. The couple finds a home and transforms it into the center of their own universe. As time passes and seasons change, life and cinema become interchangeable and their apartment evolves into an ever-changing stage, where friends are invited to play their own roles and reality and fiction merge. Until one day a cosmic portal appears in their home, opening connections between the past, the present and the future.

Reflections on the joy of being able to use a large studio to paint & to be able to film as well for a short time. Filmed in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin-Kreuzberg.

In "Mosaïc", the Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs are based on images, drawings and photographs of intercultural places: Samarkand, Bukhara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalusia, Isfahan, Cairo, Istanbul...

Completed in 2024. 40 sec, Super 8

Short by Deborah Phillips.

After a tough time, a little bit of lightness is called for itself. A search for beauty in the world around me. (Deborah S. Phillips)

Loosely based on Lewis Caroll's Through the looking glass, BREAD is a series of metamorphoses. We pass through a table into a world of strange mutations: bread crumbs bounce and dance. At the end gravity wins.

Part 3 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

Green turns red, so my colours come full circle.

Part 2 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

A tribute to a special place – Kunstquartier Bethanien

A third of a film-book-installation project. Three times fallen, three times restarted, three legs, three ends. The story of Jewish immigration.

Close-up cinema in London asked people who have shown films there in the last years whether they wanted to make a short film for their anniversary. So I gave their name some thought, which took me to words of proximity in different languages...

This is composition reacting to a whinging zeitgeist, threatened with the possibility of war. A still-life in time, a means of having hope. The Allam house is in Esfahan was being renovated when we were there. It had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq war.

A path doesn't always go straight - everything has to go around corners....

Ruminations about the color red.