Films by Kai Nicholas Theißen

Germany 2014, 21 min
by Guillaume Cailleau

Interior, day. Oncological Research Center at the Charité, Berlin, January 2011. A film team meets with researchers. Using analogue filming methods, the film team records experiments performed on mice. The mice are forced to undergo diverse measures. Whether the film deals with one or several tests, one or several mice is difficult to ascertain – the tests and the naked animals are too similar. Parallel to this, the film team documents their own activities, necessary to make the recordings. In L

Germany 2013, 85 min
by Niels-Christian Bolbrinker

Ever since radio and television were invented, paranoid people have been startling us with their detailed descriptions of imaginary technical apparatus, which, according to their theories, is being employed for surveillance and manipulation purposes. At the same time, however, this kind of technology was, in fact, being researched and built. This film is about the interplay between madness and method.