Films by Michael Pieper

Germany 2011
by Tamara Wyss

In the spring of 1914 a French archaeological expedition, led by the French poet and medical doctor Victor Segalen, entered the Province of Sichuan in order to do research on burial mounds of the Han era (206 BCE-220 CE) and early Chinese Buddhist iconography and epigraphy. Research in this realm still continues in Sichuan today, but the means and techniques of the archaeologists and art historians are more complex and advanced compared to those of a century ago. Segalen, who lived in China from

Germany, Denmark 2010, 52 min
by Lundø Jørgensen, Jacob Jørgensen

A film following the great artist Olafur Eliassion for four years through his life, work, concepts and thinking. Olafur Eliasson’s studio is based in Berlin. It is one of the most creative workplaces in Europe. The film is a unique portrait of the Danish/Icelandic artist and his projects - from the first sketches to their final destinations, where the world press awaits with high expectations to see the talented ‘Dane’s’ newest artistic ideas.