DENKmal-Film Strigel GmbH

Germany 2013, 93 min
by Claus Strigel

In a hermetically sealed off safari park in Austria our civilization’s moral challenges collide under a magnifying glass: guilt, responsibility, redemption. Fourty chimpanzees survived HIV experiments 'serving mankind'. Traumatized, highly aggressive and mentally isolated they hate humans and have every reason to. Today four caretakers manage a unique rehabilitation project, where the victims learn how to become monkeys. ''The chimpanzees show us what it means to be human'' Jane Goodall.

Germany 2012, 90 min
by Claus Strigel

Ever since banishment from paradise, mankind tries to regain the paradisiacal state of abundance without labor. Nowadays, in the beginning postindustrial era the dream threatens to become reality. A working society running out of work brings forth strange fruit. Whilst the one enjoy climbing courses on the ruins of past industrialization, others are forced in federal measures to train work without work. The film goes on a journey into a future that has already begun long ago: The end of the work

Germany 2009
by Claus Strigel

Sex, potatoes, weapons the alchemical substance called money can transform anything into anything.It's created from nothing, multiplies exponentially and generates value from its scarcity. Seemingly a medium of exchange, only 2% of its entirety is used for the exchange of goods and services. Humanity's most consequential invention is both brilliant and fatal.