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Menaris – The Fall of A Hero

“They say there’s another world beyond this river. We’re small there, much smaller than here. And we don’t have any stories. They say we live there like animals. Without power. Without wisdom. Without fate. I have seen this world in my dreams. I talk to the animals, just like here. But they don’t answer. It makes me sad. And then I fear, that I, Menaris, am not the dreamer. But the dream.”

Book
Feierabendbier

“After-Work-Beer” premiered at the Berlinale 2018.

Bartender Magnus is a city hermit. His bar, “Feierabendbier,” rarely sees visitors. His only friends are Dimi, a car mechanic, and Manfred, a mystic. His sole passion is an eighties oldtimer. When the car is stolen one night, he embarks on an obsessive hunt for the thief, spiraling increasingly out of control.

Film
Increata

1634. During the seige of Ratisbona a soldier proofs his invulnerability after eating a mysterious biscuit. The Walloon alchemist Heribert Rem is assigned to find out more about the origin of these biscuits in order to end the war. He traces an English opera singer, who got lost during the war. Does his voice have the power to overcome death like Orpheus? And how’s all this linked to an imprisoned woman, who is said to be no human but a living machine?

Film
#trusttheartist

[…] We don’t want to go too deep into the question, if stories really „matter“ in the way filmmakers try to legitimate their productions. It’s a rather philosophical question, if films ever have actually changed anything. A simple look at the dynamics we’re discussing here, shows quite clearly, that it was social movements which had an impact on the film industry, not the other way round. […]

Theory
Ben Brummer

writer – director – producer – factotum

Ben was born in the sign of the Gemini some weeks after Sartre died. In his urge to understand a world that doesn’t make sense, Ben studied physics, sociology, religion and film. His nostalgic desire for real moments in this simulation we still call society is the main drive for his film-making. […]

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Monolithic Films

[…] There are much easier ways to build something than carving it out of one single stone. Only a strong social and spiritual impetus makes people create something practically useless like an Egyptian obelisk or the Moai heads on Rapa Nui, or excessively laborious like the Rock-hewn churches of Lalibella, Ethiopia. It’s this kind of extravagance we want to refer to. Also films (and any other piece of art) are practically useless. They do not make our life easier. Instead, they show us other lifes, of which many never happened. Therefore making and watching films could be considered as spiritual acts of transcendence. […]

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