Films by Martin Prinoth

Germany 2022, 20 min
by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth

In an experimental arrangement, the photo film accompanies two young Italian war photographers on an inner journey through their archives of wars and catastrophes. While shooting themselves they go in search of images that bear witness and ask for the human impulse of making and absorbing pictures of dead and disaster. The film - photographed during the Italian Corona lockdown - circles around what the philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls the 'void' that every testimony contains at its core.

2022, 60 min
by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth

During the Covid 19 pandemic, numerous sailors from the Pacific island state of Kiribati were stranded in the port of Hamburg. In an unlikely collaboration, the German-Italian artist duo TÒ SU worked with them to develop the immersive film installation OVERSEAS. In a flooded stage space the audience is immersed in the seafarers’ stories of longing and separation, money and recognition, pride and community, environmental and climate risks. Using documentary-performative means, the artists make in

Germany 2021, 30 min
by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth

HACK ME BABY is a large formate film installation created by the german-italian artistic duo TÒ SU together with young experts from Hamburg. For a year now school classrooms have been a risk zone and for just as long students have been performing invisibility as a real life test. How do they experience the ambivalence of isolation in digital spaces in pandemic times? The team surrounding the artists/filmmakers Martina Mahlknecht and Martin Prinoth playfully explore how to undermine attention eco

Germany, Italy 2017, 78 min
by Martin Prinoth

On 1 June 2009 a passenger plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. My cousin Georg, returning from Brazil, was among the 228 dead. He grew up as an adopted child in a small Italian village in the midst of the Dolomites; he had travelled to the city of Salvador da Bahia on the coast of Brazil in search of his biological mother. Seven years later his adoptive brother, Markus, crosses the ocean to follow Georg’s footprints into his own past.The drama is reflected in geological dimensions, in primeva

Germany 2013, 28 min
by Martin Prinoth

The Camorra clan has been dominating the city of Naples for centuries. By now it is part of people’s everyday life and it’s tolerated like an unavoidable and naturally given reality by most part of the population. The film’s essayistic way of storytelling enters the hermetic space and makes the city’s archaic structures of power perceptible.

Germany 2011, 17 min
by Martin Prinoth

'Tanzpalast Kiss' is one of the last dance halls in Hamburg, where people of different cultures over their 50ies are coming together to dance in couples. The film immerges in a microcosmos of twinkeling plastic palms and glitter chandeliers, tracing loneliness and desire of individuals living in a major city. People that are either in search of love or just for someone to dance with for one evening, escaping from the daily loneliness by fleshly closeness.