[ UNUM ] (lat."one") discovers the singularity of life. Beginning with a carnal prologue between man and woman, the figurative journey continues with a lone huntsman at a cave. Accompanied by his loyal dog the huntsman delivers delicate honey to a shady merchant - as a single drop of the sweet nectar releases the furies of fate.
with Boris Noir, Milo Moiré etc
Director David Gesslbauer & Michi Lange
Production Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg
Producer Michaela Edl & Veith Unger
DOP David Iskender Dincer
Production Design Marta Magdalena Jeszke
Sound Lena Beck & Robin Harff
Music Tobias Lilja & Paul Brenning
Editor David Gesslbauer
VFX Michi Lange
Color Marina Starke
Awards
GOLD Video Art - Young Directors Award 2019
BEST Direction International - Kinsale Shark Awards 2018
BEST Foreign Film - Experimental - New York Indie Film Fest 2018
BEST Cinematography - Experimental - New York Indie Film Fest 2018
BEST Production Design - Experimental - New York Indie Film Fest 2018
A one-hit wonder Ivan Dorn in the deep state of a creative crisis is signed to a rehab program at the highly protected, isolated Sanatorium that promises a lifetime warranty for endless inspiration. A bourgeois setting with welcoming stuff slowly creeps into a violent cult that tortures artists in the name of inspiration, where Ivans greatest hit becomes his darkest nightmare.
with Ivan Dorn
Director Andzej Gavriss
Screenplay Andzej Gavriss & Elnara Ialaltdinova & Bulat Karipov
DOP Jacob Møller
Producer Anna Bokina
Production 2332 Films
Editor David Gesslbauer
Production Design Julija Fricsone Gavriss
Sound Julian Holzapfel
Music Raphaël Dargent
Color Matt Osborn
“A Perfect Crime: Netflix to examine Germany's answer to JFK assassination. Streaming giant’s first German documentary will look at case of reunification official who was shot dead at long range” - theguardian.com
In April 1991, Detlev Rohwedder, the head of Treuhand, the East German Privatization and Restructuring Agency, was assassinated in Dusseldorf. An inspection of the scene revealed three cartridge cases, a plastic chair, a towel and a letter claiming responsibility by the Red Army Faction (RAF), a radical left terrorist group that killed 33 people between 1971 and 1993. To this day, the assassin has never been identified.
Director Jan Peter & Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Production Gebrüder Beetz
Producer Christian Beetz, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Florian Fettweis
Written by Martin Behnke & Christian Beetz
DOP Jürgen Rehberg
Edit André Nier & David Gesslbauer
Music Nils Kacirek & Milan Meyer-Kaya
VFX Automatik
Intro Sequence:
Director Jan Peter
Production Gebrüder Beetz
Producer Christian Beetz, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Florian Fettweis
DOP Jürgen Rehberg
Edit David Gesslbauer
Music Nils Kacirek & Milan Meyer-Kaya
VFX Automatik
coming soon
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Director Adam Donen
DOP Jason Ellis
Production 12th Battalion Productions
Editor David Gesslbauer
Music Robert Harder & Adam Donen
Color Dirk Meier
At the age of twenty-four, North Carolina native Billy Ray Suggs was convicted of importing and selling $25m worth of cocaine and sentenced to twenty-three years in prison. Now, at the age of sixty-nine, his day-to-day life may have become more wholesome—but his outlook is just as youthful and carefree.
with Billy Ray
Director Francisco Gonzalez Sendino
DOP Jan David Günther
Production Saltwater Films / Filmakademie BW
Music Stefan Benz
Sound Denis Elmaci
Color Daniel Devue
Awards
GOLD for Direction - Berlin Commercial 2019
GOLD for Idea - Berlin Commercial 2019
GOLD for Direction - 1.4 Awards 2019
SILVER Filmschool North America - Young Directors Award 2019
SILVER Passion Project - Young Directors Award 2019
SILVER Editing - Berlin Commercial
STAFF PICK - Vimeo
Director Andzej Gavriss
DOP Anatol Trofimov
Production Bonaparte Films & Paranoiia Productions
Music Stefan Benz
VFX Supercontinent
Color Emiliano Serantoni
with Marteria, Emilia Schüle, Frederick Lau etc
Director Specter Berlin
DOP Armin Franzen
Production doity
Music Marteria, Hell Yes, Stefan Benz
Sound Sebastian Troy
VFX Storz & Escherich
Color Jan Schöningh
"Routine or vicious cycle? An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by
undergoing an intense audio-visual trip."
presented in Circlescope - an experimental film
Director David Gesslbauer & Michael Lange
Production Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Music Nexothex
Awards
Short Tiger Award 2014
"Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll"
BEST Experimentalfilm - CineMAiubit International Student Filmfestival 2014
BEST Picture - U.F.O. Shortfilm Festival 2014
BEST Sound - Watersprite Cambridge Festival 2014
BEST Experimental Short Grand Jury Prize - Nashville Film Festival 2015
Nominee - TIFF - Toronto International Filmfestival 2014
She can’t believe it when he arrives at the restaurant looking squalid, shabby
and unwilling to explain himself. The truth sounds way too absurd and being a
notorious liar, he can’t risk anything. Cornered, he tells her an intricate story
and expects everything – except her actual reaction.
with Nils Malten & Merle Collet
Director David Gesslbauer
Press
" This is delicious and achievable storytelling. A lesson or all aspiring
filmmakers who wish to make a contained short and don’t know how to go
about doing so ” onesmallwindow.com
" I wouldn’t be lying if the situation and the German language reminded me of
some scenes from Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglorious Basterds, the depth and
intensity of the conversations as well as the absurdity of the entire setting. ”
filmshortage.com
" Gesslbauer manages to weave an entertaining and fully realized tale all
within the confines of one location. " cinemaaxis.com
In Exchange innovative German director and writer Francisco Sendino presents this contemporary remake of an iconic erotic scene from Tampopo, a 1980s Japanese “noodle western” directed by Juzo Itami.
Director Francisco Gonzalez Sendino
DOP Jan David Günther
Production Saltwater Films
Music 2wei Music
Sound Denis Elmaci
Color Jan David Günther
Showrunner Frank Doegler
Directors Luke Watson, Barbara Eder, Philipp Stölzl
DOP Dominik Berg, David Luther
Editor Sandy Saffeels, Philipp Ostermann
Additional Editor David Gesslbauer
Music Dascha Dauenhauer
“Live action trailer for the groundbreaking and genre-defining Role Playing Game: DEGENESIS”
Director Zoran Bihac
DOP Mathias Schöningh
Production Tony Petersen
Agency Sixmorevodka
Music Tobias Lilja