Directed work:
2022 Sleeping Glaciers Dreaming Slowly (pre-production)
2021 What current is under the sea?, 17 mins. Installation, ‘Second Body’ group show at ATP Gallery, London
2020 Unwritten Letters, 59 mins. Co-directed with Abd Alrahman Dukmak. Producer, camera, sound, montage.
Screenings among others at:
Creative Mentorship Program 2019 | Royal Anthropological Institute; Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon 2020; RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2021; Ethnografilm Paris 2021; Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology 2021; Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado, USA 2021; The Archive of Migrant Memories, Rome; Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Baltimore, USA 2021, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Bard College, New York, VU Amsterdam, University of Bremen etc.
*Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize
*Distributed by the Royal Anthropological Institute
2013 – present: direction of various music videos for artists like Me and Marie, Gise, Henning Sieverts etc.
Sound work:
Freelance sound recordist for clients such as Netflix, Al Jazeera, KBS, PBS, Visual Artists, Universal Music e.g.:
2023 James Richards at Bonner Kunstverein, sound design
2022 Birkenstock x Benedict Redgrove; Dir: Benedict Redgrove, sound recordist
The Other Mendelssohn; Dir.: Sheila Hayman, sound recordist
Innocence; Dir: Guy Davidi, sound recordist
2021 Women in newsrooms, Prod: Soo Jeong Kim for KBS, sound recordist
2020 Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, sound recordist
2019 The Devil Next Door, Dir. Jossi Bloch and Daniel Sivan, Netflix Documentary, sound recordist
2018 Printed Circuit, Dir: Dan Robert Lahiani, video installation, sound recordist
2017 The Astronaut, Prod: HFF Munich; Dir: Linda Schiwa Klinghammer, musician
The Orphan´s Gift, Dir: Dan Robert Lahiani, video installation, sound recordist
2016 Never Look Away, Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, add. assistant director
Battleship Approven, Dir: Marwah Tibi, Zainab Productions for Al Jazeera, sound recordist
For Medalia Productions, Israel & Palestine, sound recordist:
Sacred, Dir: Hilla Medalia, PBS
The Oslo Diaries, Dir: Daniel Sivan & Mor Loushy, HBO
Muhi - Generally Temporary, Dir: Tamir Elterman and Rina Castelnuovo
Kosher Beach, Dir: Karin Kainer
2015 My Art, USA, Prod: Andrew Fierberg, Dir: Laurie Simmons, 2nd assistant director
The Eremites, Italy, Prod: Zischlermann Filmproduktion, Dir: Ronny Trocker, ass. location manager
The Skin of Others, Germany, Prod: Loptafilm, Dir: Thomas Stiller, 2nd assistant director
Misc.: German (native), English (very good), French (good). Driver’s License. Mental Health First Aid responder.
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