Projects

This is a film about the growing influence of lobbying on the decision-making in the European Institutions. The film explores the mechanisms and opportunities of the “Brussels Business” as well as its repercussions.

Production: blue+green communication

Status: In Production

Year: 2011

The Little Gypsy Witch is a children’s film that portrays the everyday life of an urban Roma family living on the outskirts of a big city, as seen through the eyes of the main protagonist, a nine year-old Roma girl Manusha. Manusha witnesses her parents’ everyday struggles and troubles whilst herself undergoing a painful experience of not being accepted by her peers in school.

Production: Formula Film (HR)

Status: Complete

Year: 2011

Exakt ein Vierteljahrhundert nach dem größten Nuklearunfall der Geschichte regieren Wölfe das radioaktiv verseuchte Niemandsland, die Sperrzone um Tschernobyl in der Dreiländerecke zwischen Ukraine, Russland und Weissrussland. Nach der Reaktorkatastrophe am 26. April 1986 wurden etwa 150 Ortschaften mit mehr als 150.000 Bewohnern evakuiert. Unbehindert durch den Menschen haben sich seither in der Zone zahlreiche Wildtierarten angesiedelt. An der Spitze des Ökosystems in dieser neuen Wildnis steht der Wolf.

Production: BBC/NDR/WNET

Status: Complete

Year: 2010

Termiten bauen Nester von großartiger Vollkommenheit. Verglichen mit unseren Häusern sind ihre Hügel gigantisch. Unsere normalen Wohnhäuser müssten 600 Meter hoch sein und New Yorks Wolkenkratzer viermal so hoch. Sie bauen je nach Gegend und Untergrund ihre Nester mit Erde, Lehm oder Sand. Sie bauen Wohnburgen mit raffinierter Klimatechnik, die menschliche Ingenieurkunst bescheiden erscheinen lässt.

Production: AV-Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2010

Der Arlberg ist der Inbegriff winterlicher Idylle und die Wiege des alpinen Skilaufs. Doch das berühmte Skigebiet, das Tirol und Vorarlberg verbindet, ist noch viel mehr. In schwer zugänglichen Tälern und an zerklüfteten Gebirgsstöcken ist ein Stück unberührter Natur erhalten geblieben.

Production: epo-film

Status: Complete

Year: 2010

Unterhalb des Gipfels des Mount Everest entdeckte 1999 eine internationale Expedition die gut erhaltene Leiche von George Mallory, der schon 1924 gemeinsam mit seinem Partner Andrew Irvine den Gipfel erstürmen wollte. Standen Mallory und Irvine vielleicht schon 29 Jahre vor Edmund Hillary auf dem Gipfel? Um darauf eine Antwort zu finden, folgt ein “Universum” Team unter Regisseur Gerald Salmina 2010 Jochen Hemmleb bei einer weiteren riskanten Suchexpedition auf das Dach der Welt.

Production: Taglicht Media / Monaco Film

World Premiere: Anchorage International Film Festival 2010

Europe Premiere: Max Ophüls Filmfestival Saarbrücken 2011

Status: Complete

Year: 2010

A night walk ends fatal for the unsuccessful author Max: As he searches his dog, he does not see a car coming down the street. He has no chance to avoid a crash. But instead of a strike by the car he dives into white light and stays unharmed. Max cannot explain himself what has happened, not yet… A dark mystery evolves around him and he plays the major part. Behind the facade of his new life lurk the most evil tyrants of the world: Coincidence and time.

Production: Bild[er]folge

Status: Complete

Year: 2010

Vienna Vampire – Vampire beissen im Miraculum. A young couple is driving home from an amusement park, when on a dark forest road they hit something; the boy leaves the car and suddenly disappears, the girl tries to find him and stumbles upon unspeakable evil…

Production: E. Mican/A. Reindl

Awards: GRAND prize & SEINE-SAINT-DeNIS PRIZE, France

Status: Complete

Year: 2010

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain’s summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a mile-wide (1.5 km-wide) horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km³) in volume.
Industrial Motion Art recreates this devasting moment and shows this destructive event in High Definition State of the Art 3D Animations.

Production: Interspot

Awards: GREEN SCREEN PRIZE

Status: Complete

Year: 2009

Vor 400 Jahren öffnete Galileo Galilei mit einem Teleskop das Fenster zum Himmel. Johannes Kepler veröffentlichte 1609 seine “Astronomia Nova” und beschrieb damit unser Sonnensystem neu. In Erinnerung an diese Meilensteine der Wissenschaft erklärte die UNO 2009 zum “Jahr der Astronomie”. Aus diesem Anlass erzählt das Regie-Duo Wolfgang Peschl & Christian Riehs in der Dokumentation “Wenn die Sonne still steht” die kaum bekannte Geschichte der seltsamen Beziehung zwischen den beiden weltberühmten Wissenschaftlern: eine Parallelgeschichte von Bewunderung und Rivalität aus einer Zeit, die noch keine Trennung kannte zwischen Religion, Kunst und Wissenschaft.

Link: Wenn die Sonne still steht

Production: Laufbildgesellschaft

Awards: GREEN SCREEN PRIZE

Status: Complete

Year: 2009

Linz, the capital of the Province of Upper Austria, serves as European Capital of Culture in 2009. In recent years, Linz has blossomed into a model European city that places its technology- and knowledge-based urban industrial centre at equal footing to its manifold cultural events. Against this dynamic backdrop, Linz has similarly managed to demonstrate respect to nature by including ecological factors on all levels of urban planning. Linz 09 – the city in which industry, culture and nature melt into one. This film takes the viewer on an adventure trip of a special kind by following the everyday lives of wild animals that have chosen, of all places in the world, Linz as their habitat. It ventures through the Old Town with quiet paws and then takes you by nosedive to the old tower of the cathedral or in agile leaps through the botanical gardens. Linz is presented through an extraordinary angle – whether sniffed out by dogs and cats, seen by falcon or fish or experienced by bumble bees or foxes.

Production: AV Dokumenta

Awards: CINE 2009 Golden Eagle Award

Status: Complete

Year: 2009

Italy, California and South Africa are not the only places famous fortheir wines. Right in the heart of Europe, Austria can also look back over a past suffused with music and wine, both of which remain inseparably linked to this day. It is the vastness of Austria’s “Weinviertel” or wine growing region that captivates visitors. No other region of Austria suggests this feeling of endless landscape quite so vividly. A soft, hilly landscape, blessed with a warm climate, that is cultivated by humans but has maintained much of its original character – a quiet landscape with a considerable history and hidden treasures. And the Weinviertel hasn’t been given its name for nothing – wine growing defines the land in all its forms and has always been the distinguishing feature for the inhabitants of this unique region.

Production: AV Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2009

On the paths and alleys where once the exclusive aristocratic hunting society gathered for light entertainment, today bikers and joggers meet. In the thicket of the meadows, badgers, foxes and deer are wandering around, while by the waters, Mandarin ducks are mating. They were imported for hunting purposes from China more than a hundred years ago and since then have established their place in the landscape. The Danube’s bayous are not only a paradise for waterfowl of all sorts but also a haven for beavers, who chop down tree after tree. Life flourishes in the meadows of the Prater, Vienna’s green lung. The 6.000.000 m2 big area of the Prater is full of “animal” surprises and it is exactly here where the 2008 UEFA European Championship will take place.This film portrays the diverse animal life in and around the stadium and will be available to international partners in time before the opening of the Euro 2008.

Awards: Awards: CINE GOLDEN EAGLE COMPETITION, WASHINGTON 2008: GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD, CINEECO – FESTIVAL INT. DE CINEMA E VIDEO DE AMBIENTE, PORTUGAL 2008: POLIS AWARD

Production: mcr film

Status: Complete

Year: 2008

A camera team aboard the Tegetthoff was sent out to film the first deployment of the new battleship. The planned scenes of celebration would instead become a one of a kind documentation of a horrific event. Their original footage forms the basis of this documentary, which recreates and analyses the tragedy. Historical reenactments, filmed on historic ships in Rostock and Athens, help define the atmosphere of the film. Using 3D animation and a diving expedition to the wreck of the Szent Istvan off the coast of Croatia, the filmmakers attempt to resolve the last mysteries of the ship’s destruction.

Production: Vidicom TV/Interspot

Status: Complete

Year: 2008

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Production: IMA

Status: Complete

Year: 2008

Once upon a time, somewhere in space… there was a huge ringworld and its articifial sun. A beautiful queen watched over this unique place. But one day, a dark lord falls in love with her. More than any other things in universe he desires the precious queen of the ring. He encircles her homeworld with his gigantic spacefleet and finally starts a direful attack with the only intention to conquer the beautiful queen for himself. This completely computer generated science fiction filmlet is about this extraordinary war and an unusual tale about love and hate. It is introduced by a famous aphorism of Friedrich Nietzsche: “What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Status: Complete

Year: 2007

Tasmania makes an impression with its unique landscape, architecture and scenery. Its largely unknown wilderness has always attracted adventurers and scientists. One of these courageous men was the Austrian botanist, Gustav Weindorfer. His adventurous expedition lead him to Cradle Mountain. He was deeply moved by this spectacular world of mountains and gave his utmost to bring that wonderful experience to others. Today the Cradle Mountain National Park allows visitors from all over the world to indulge in this breathtaking landscape.

Production: AV Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2007

We perceive time in terms of seconds – the length of a heartbeat. We can’t even imagine events that unfold over several days and years or be aware of elementary particles that flash into existence for less than a billionth of a second without high-tech camera equipment and exceptional filming techniques. “Time Limits” uses a combination of dramatic computer animation, amazing real time images and the latest scientific advances to give a totally new view of our world and our universe. Specially developed motion-control time-lapse photography will bring to life the slow motion world of plants and the beautiful play of day and night. As the journey continues we experience shorter timescales to find elements that exist for less than a millionth of a second diving into a world of its own. Experience events in a completely new visual way and join the team that made “Limits of Perception” such a success on a fascinating journey to the limits of time.

Production: AV Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2007

Mariazell

Production: AV Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2007

Why are blossoms never dirty and can we also make our cars that way?Why can geckos walk on the ceiling and can we use their tricks to create better adhesives? Why is the spider’s web tougher than steel? Exciting new developments in computer technology, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to understand Nature’s designs better than ever before. Scientists are not simply trying to copy nature – they are taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.

The Magic of Motion

covers Nature’s winning high speed, long range and all-terrain motion designs such as Germany’s recent tuna-fish sonic jet.

The Material World

deals with the amazing chemistry, physics and statics of natural materials and their transfer to buildings, tools and technical appliances of the future.

Energy is the Key

focuses on Nature’s energy production and conservation methods and speculates on future solutions to one of the most pressing problems of today’s humanity.

AWARDS:

Jackson Hole 2007: Winner Limited Series, US INTERNATIONALS 2007: CERTIFICATE FOR CREATIVE EXCELLENCE, WILDLIFE ASIA FILM FEST 2007: FINALISTS FOR BREAKING BOUNDARIES AND TECHNICAL BRILLIANCE, EMMY 2008: Best Cinematography (Nomination:Light+Scenic Design)

Production: AV Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2006

Far from being a long, let alone a wide river, the waters of the Kamp river feed one of the most fascinating valley landscapes of Lower Austria. From its source to its estuary, which empties into the Danube, the river descends about 745 metres in altitude. A river course like the Kamp’s is a life corridor whose banks line increasingly rare wetlands, marshes, meadows, gallery forests, embankments, jungle-type shrubs and alluvial forests. While small sections of the river course were made a nature preserve, one whole section of the river was designated to become a “cultural park”. The region is shaped by its long-standing cultural tradition, the perfect soil for wine-growing, and an ever more strongly positioned gentle tourism industry.

Production: AV Dokumenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2006

Our lives are ruled by an insubstantial phenomenon that we all accept, we all believe in. – All of us. Some of us more than others – that’s how TIME works. Thousands of years ago we invented calendars and clocks that followed the movements of the stars. And we believed that we understood TIME. But just because we can measure TIME, it doesn’t mean we understand it.

Production: Laufbildgesellschaft

Status: Complete

Year: 2005

This film takes a look at the various ways poisons have been used throughout history, using dramatic reconstructions of some of the most infamous poisonings. But the film doesn’t stop there. Using advanced computer animation, we travel inside the bodies of a victim of the Borgias, as well as Cleopatra, Hannibal, Socrates, Emperor Leopold and a host of other unfortunate victims, to witness from the inside how they died. The film follows humanity’s macabre search over thousands of years for the perfect poison. A poisoner needs a poison that is tasteless and colorless, and therefore won’t be noticed by the victim. It needs to work in low doses, so a poisoner doesn’t have to feed his victim large quantities. And it needs to be reliably and quickly lethal. Finally, it needs to be indetectable after the event, so the poisoner leaves no trail of guilt. In fact, for preference it should mimic the symptoms of a disease, so none even suspects poisoning. Not surprisingly, such a perfect poison is not easy to find or make, and the search has occupied some of humanity’s finest minds.

Production: AV Documenta

Status: Complete

Year: 2004