Films by Matthias Kind

Germany 2010, 43 min
by Gerhard Widmer, Michael Wolff (fact+film)

The modern digitalized world is tied together through glass fibre cables. Although overall stable, damages to sea cables in certain regions can still arrest whole economies. Billions of dollars depend on new technological developments in glass fibre cable technology. Science has come a long way since the “Great Eastern”, the largest ship of its era, installed the first sea cable in 1866. In this documentary, current visions and developments in glass fibre technology are interwoven with a re-tell

Germany 2005
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

The hot phase of space tourism has begun. Tourist agencies like “Space Adventures” and “Pro Toura” already offer everything the hearts of daring tourists desire, from astronaut training in space camps to zero-gravity flights all the way to flight into space. To boost the development of private transport systems for tourists, the so-called “X Prize” was offered in the USA. The first company to take passengers into space and bring them back to the Earth wins 10 million dollars. The film displays t