
My collaboration with the Met Film School Berlin
In summer 2014 I met a young student on Facebook – half-Dutch, half-Austrian, student at the Met Film School – posting a casting for native English-speaking actors. Even though I am not native British I still asked him whether he would let me audition. He did. The start of a very nice, interesting, challenging and diverse cooperation.
The Met Film School is the German branch of the school with the same name in London. They offer several courses: undergraduate and postgraduate courses in practical filmmaking and directing as well as six-month courses and numerous shorter ones. (practical filmmaking, directing, production, editing)
The greatest thing about these projects is that the students have to learn how to work with actors and get them to do what you as a young aspiring director want them to do and I learn from working with them and from them as well. The teachers give them lots of different methods – and me by proxy. Suzuki's ViewPoint Method, Method Acting, Meisner, Chubbuk and the rest of the gang. And apart from that, these students are still very much into experiments. They don't always work out, but that's not the point – trying and searching is often more interesting.
These young people come from all over the world and this school enabled me to work with upcoming talent from Canada, Brasil, Sweden, Norway, Libanon, Great-Britain, Germany, Belgium, Serbia and so on.
My video gallery • Met Film School Berlin
Projects
Sandbank
Children's health cure on Spiekeroog • Project of »Das Letzte Kleinod« 2022
Passenger Processing
the Columbusbahnhof Bremerhaven • Project of »Das Letzte Kleinod« 2021
Nr. 10
A film by Alex van Warmerdam 2021
How to cry
Theatre performance by »&sistig« 2021
Heimat & Fremde
the poet Hermann Allmers • Project of »Das Letzte Kleinod« 2021
Häuser-Fluchten
Site-specific theatre by »spreeagenten« 2020
Audio Drama Enthymesis
An Audio drama based on Arno Schmidt.
Souvenir 1870
Theatre in the train • Project of »Das Letzte Kleinod« in 2019
»wa/m/s-g« version 2
Performance for two actors
Photoshoot III
with Jaap de Jonge in Wünsdorf near Zossen
WILHELM*INA
Theatre in the train • Project of »Das Letzte Kleinod« in 2018
Photoshoot II
with Jaap de Jonge in the tank barracks Bernau
»wa/m/s-g«
Performance for two actors
Performing Arts Festival
ProtokollB • Three theatre nights at PAF 2017
Digital Digestion
Protokoll B • Installation & Performance
Festival 48-h-Neukölln 2016
Met Film School
My collaboration with the Met Film School Berlin
Photoshoot
with Jaap de Jonge in the villa Neue Hakeburg
Am Boden
A theatre play based on Maxim Gorki • Graduation at the theatre school Die Etage
Enthymesis
Theatre Monologue in celebration of Arno Schmidt's 100th birthday