Traverses (WT) – in production

90 minutes, 2:1
Directed by May Dugast
Camera by Max Knoop

Ingeborg, 90, and her friends meet weekly for tea, cake, and candid discussions about love, sex, and death. Their bond deepens when Ingeborg convinces them to order pentobarbital, preparing for a self-determined end. The last piece of her plan: finding someone trustworthy to handle her body after death. One Wednesday at their dancehall, Café Keese, they meet Fernando.

Fernando, a solitary funeral parlor worker in his sixties, finds solace in his job and his private tango practice, though he avoids dancing publicly. After a failed attempt to find a partner, he meets Natasha, 60, a grieving widow and tango musician, at the funeral home where her husband’s body has been brought.

Desperate for a final farewell with her husband, Natasha asks Fernando to help her realising her plan to take her partner’s body home for one last time before the funeral. Initially hesitant, Fernando is drawn to her passion and sees her as the dance partner he’s been searching for.

Portrait: Whitney Davis

A documentary portrait of Whitney Davis, the award-winning art historian from the University of California, Berkeley, commissioned by The NOMIS Foundation in 2024.

Directed by Max Knoop

Camera by Adrianna Amra Bartosiewicz, Pauline Pyras, Sinah Rosenzweig

Portrait: Elena Conti

A documentary portrait of Elena Conti the award-winning biologist at Max-Planck-Institut, Munich, commissioned by The NOMIS Foundation in 2024.

Directed by Pauline Pyras

Camera by Max Knoop, Adrianna Amra Bartosiewicz and Sinah Rosenzweig

Portrait: Andrea Ablasser

A documentary portrait of Andrea Ablassser the award-winning doctor at Max-Planck-Institut, Munich, commissioned by The NOMIS Foundation in 2024.

Directed by Adrianna Amra Bartosiewicz

Camera by Max Knoop, Pauline Pyras and Sinah Rosenzweig

Without Learning, Life is but an Image of Death

Direction and DoP, USA, 14’, September 2022

Short film with Cannon Russell

Cycling Against Ghosts

Regie: Livia Giuliani und Jamie Anderson
Kamera: Jamie Anderson und Max Knoop

In den letzten zwei Jahren musste der ADFC Berlin 24 Geisterräder aufstellen. Geisterräder für Menschen, die auf dem Weg zur Arbeit, zum Sport oder nach Hause im Straßenverkehr getötet wurden. In dieser Zeit wurden die Geisterrad-Demonstrationen und Mahnwachen von einem Filmteam begleitet. Herausgekommen sind 15 Stunden Filmmaterial, aus denen ein Kurzfilm enstehen soll: Mit "Cycling against ghosts" soll die wichtige Arbeit jener gezeigt werden, die sich schon seit Jahren für mehr Verkehrssicherheit einsetzen.