1998
Locus Amoenus - 15‘
screenwriter, director, camera and editor
A conceptual video about an apocalyptic valley, made with music and and pictures. Shot on DV and S-VHS. This project was shown at the 18th international Video Art Festival of Locarno (1998).


1999
The lottery - 10‘
producer and co-editor
A documentary about the draft system used by the danish army to select youngsters eligible to serve the country as soldiers. Supported by the European Film College (EFC). Shot on DV. Broadcast on DK 4 (march 1999), Denmark.

 

1999
Zak - 8‘
screenwriter, director, producer, editor
A short film about the precarious and romantic dream of a young alcoholic man. Supported by the EFC. Shot on DV.

 

1999
Release - 10‘
producer
A short film directed by Aurel Bantzer, Germany. The film is about a shy young man who falls in love with a strange and mysterious young woman who pretends to be deaf. Supported by the EFC. Shot on DV. Broadcast on DK 4 (march 1999), Denmark.

 

1999
Burst - 20‘
editor
A nouvelle-film directed by Aurel Bantzer, Germany. Burst is about a man who has one day left to live, and how he extremely spends it. Supported by the EFC. Shot on DV. Shown in june 1999 at the Filmhuset, Copenhagen, by the Danish Fim Institute which selects each year the best short films made by the European Film College and the Danish Film School.

 

2000
Music Box - 5‘
screenwriter and director
A short film about the fragmented memories and the sensations of two lovers after a crucial meeting. Shot on 16 mm film. Supported by FAMU. In competition at the FAMU film festival 2000, Prague.

 

2001
Miro Romipen (My Romany Being) - 30‘
co-director and editor
A documentary about an 18 year old romany poet in search of his identity. Shot on 16 mm film and DV. Supported by FAMU. Broadcasts at Czech and swiss national TVs. Co-directed with Dalia Neis (UK). Winner of the 8th International artistic competition "Amico Rom" (Lanciano, Italy, third price as documantary).

 

2001
Life, death, once more, Prague - 40‘
director, director of photography and editor
A speechless documentary about Prague, a city with a struggled history, broken by communism, tired and injured, but also fresh and regenerated. The documentary follows its cycle of life, from children to old people, to the dead. A hymn to the metamorphosis of Prague, and a tribute to the film „the man with the movie camera“ by Dziga Vertov. Shot on mini DV.

 

2003
No artificial anything - 62', 52' (tv version)
co-director, camera operator and co-editor
Summer of 2001. Two young filmmakers travel through 5 states before and after the tragic events of 11.9.2001. They meet more than 20 americans from all kinds of backgrounds, getting a portrait ofUSA in its most dramatic moment in history. A documentary shot on DV. Co-directed with Ryan Fenson-Hood (USA). Broadcast on Swiss tv. Presented at the 10th International Film Festival Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland).

 

2005
Notturno - 16'
director, director of photography and editor
This atmospheric short set in a middle class suburb tells the story of Antoine. He will soon become a father. This major change in his life makes him not sleep at night. During the late hours he leaves home and wonders in the deserted streets of his city, Antoine remembers the main facts of his past life through visual memories and quotes from his favourite childbook: "the little prince".

 

2009
Djedi - 19'
co-director and co-editor
In his mid twenties, Scooter is coasting through life in a lackadaisical way. He is a Graffiti Writer and DJ/musician in his native Brooklyn, and his graffiti name is Djedi. His carefree attitude lands him a job as a city graffiti remover, and, he finds himself comfortable in an absurdly contradictive career path. When offered a new job composing music for an sensationalistic news show, he thinks he's found a better way to earn his living than removing graffiti, but he finds that's not the case when he realizes he is only helping to empower corrupt government messages. The film is set in the graffiti writer's world of Brooklyn rooftops and streets, amid the sunrises, sunsets and nights, that are auspicious as the only safe times of work.

 

2009
The Sound After the Storm - 82' + 52'
co-director and co-editor
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is part ghost town and part third world country. Well known musicians Lillian Boutté, Dr. Michael White and photographer Armand “Sheik” Richardson use music as a philosophy and tool to save themselves and their abandoned, crumbling city. The Sound After the Storm tells a story in which this “music born of slavery” is reborn in response to Katrina’s devastation.

 

2009
The Legacy of Silence - 52'
co-director and co-editor
Mattia Unal is a young Aramaean with Swiss nationality and the son of a Syriac Orthodox priest in the Aramaean community in Italian-speaking Switzerland. From an early age, his identity has been shaped by the use of the Aramaic language and religion. Mattia’s awareness of his origins is, however, limited to what he has learned from his parents, who fled from their country to Switzerland in the early 1980s. Mattia and his father decide  therefore to go on a journey, visiting the land of their family: Tur Abdin, “Mountain of the Servants of God”. This remote region, lying between the Anatolian plateau and the plains of ancient Babylon, remains the homeland of the Syriac Orthodox Christians, the last surviving speakers of the language of Jesus. During the journey Mattia visits for the first time his grandparents. They live in a Christian village in the Kurdish zone, whose hundred or so inhabitants are guarded and controlled by a garrison of forty soldiers. Mattia and his father visit also other Christian villages in the region, mostly along the Syrian and Iraqi border, to talk with those, young and old, willing to share their dramatic experiences and hopes for the future. The Legacy of Silence offers a personal view of the lives of Aramaean people, in the Diaspora and in their homeland, in the present and the past, in both the younger and the older generations, creating a picture of how an ethnic and religious minority in Turkey has lived and continues to live on today.