Currently I am working on three projects dealing with the legacy of violence and history:
Free State Midpoint examines the question: What is the perspective and feel of life of a person, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and who was sterilized by the Nazis and decided to live in a swamp? What world was lost when the keeper of a very traditional seafarer tavern decided to drown himself in the sea? And how did the trauma of Second World War and the complex question of (national)(&)(male) identity affect not only my grandfather and my father, but me as well?
Besides I have done commissioned work such as a feature documentary about the entertainer Helene Fischer for the ARD, a TV-reportage about a
treasure hunter, a social documentary with young people from the Kreuzberg section of Berlin, music videos, photography and various video projections for modern operas such as Dalibor at Frankfurt Opera, Aschemond at Staatsoper Berlin and the post dramatic theatre collective Monstertruck.
Independently from commissioned work, I am continually working on projects dealing with issues that concern me.
Thus I shot an independent feature documentary in New York right after September 11th World Trade Center attacks, held a documentary workshop with high school students and curated a film program. Besides I continually make sketches, both filmic and photographic, as well as installations.
Linking element of my work is the question of how images of poetic realism - inspired by the concept of Herz Frank and the Latvian documentary school - can function as a tool to examine the world around me in way that allows me and the beholders not only to get closer to the mystery of life but at the same time help us create sense of it in a liberating way.