Films by Marco Kugel

Germany 2022, 85 min
by Marco Kugel

How do you measure the beauty of a landscape? How that of a whole country? How and to what purpose can subjective impressions be converted into objective, statistically comparable data? Marco Kugel’s multi-layered film ›Die Karte der Schönheit‹ negotiates these questions against the background of the accelerated energy transition and the necessary grid expansion that goes with it. The landscape planner and scientist Michael Roth is commissioned by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation to dr

Germany 2017, 84 min
by Marco Kugel, Simon Quack

Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in sunny locations, some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are professional footballers, they are all unemployed. And they look desperately for a job. The Other Fields sheds a new and completely different light on the mythologies of contemporary football. The achievement-oriented society does not allow too many dreams even though it is exactly dreams that are sold to audien

Germany 2011
by Bernd Schoch

The Schlippenbach Trio (Paul Lovens, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach) exist since forty years and they are part of the european Freejazz history. Each year in december they go on the 'Winterreise' to play their sound of divergence, catharsis & explosion. The film BUT THE WORD DOG DOESN'T BARK is shoot over the period of four years at the Jazzclub Karlsruhe. Each year the camera focuses in a single frame shot on one of the players.In 2007 on Paul Lovens (drums), in 2008 on Evan Parker (r