Films by Florian Riegel

Germany 2017, 58 min
by Ilja Stahl

16-year-old Tebogo and 15-year-old Karabo live in Johannesburg's central district Hillbrow. In underground car parks, on high rise roofs and in nocturnal streets they dawdle away the time, somewhere between boredom and energy to burn.Writer and director Ilja Stahl's graduation film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne was supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and shot entirely in Johannesburg/South Africa."Touching Concrete" celebrates its world premiere at the DOK Leipzig Filmfestival 2

Germany 2008
by Mareike Wegener

On June 19th, 1995, New York born artist Al Hansen died in his studio in Cologne. It wasn't unusual for Hansen to disappear, and his body lay there until some time later. He was found under his desk, smothered in what many consider trash but what he called working materials. He was 67 years old, and working on a collage made out of matchsticks. "Al Hansen – The Matchstick Traveller" portrays an artist who was everything at once: beat poet, pop artist, performer, Fluxus artist, author, porn edit