Films by Ian Purnell

2018, 21 min
by Benjamin Ramírez Pérez, Stefan Ramírez Pérez

CONFLUENCE centers around Serbian pop singer and former child star Doris Bizetić. In a mixture between pop and lecture performance Doris’ biography is conflated with histories of architectures in Belgrade.As Doris recounts memories of her childhood in front of cameras and talks about war trauma, her biography is linked to the history of Belgrade’s CK Tower, in which her life stages as well as the transitions of political systems in Serbia are mirrored.

Germany, Switzerland 2018, 29 min
by Ian Purnell

THE FEAR OF DYING IN TRANSIT is a hypnotic journey through the landscape of an underground construction site. Shot around the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, architectural observations blend with safety rituals. Facts dissolve within the realm of phobias and science fiction.

Germany 2014, 50 min
by Aline Fischer

After he finished his high school, my boyfriend Michi made a trip to Latin America in order to meet the Natives. I was 19 years old and deeply in love with him. He went into the Peruvian jungle and was killed there. The film tries to depict the backgrounds of the incident.