Films by Michael Wolff

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 2010, 43 min
by Désirée von Trotha, Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Hairstyle in Mali (Africa) is a visual explosion of fantasy, creativity and skilled craft and is firmly rooted in African tradition and culture. We will tell the story of hair culture in Africa with the help of four people: Adjaratou belongs to the young generation and is dreaming of winning a beauty contest and eventually becomes Miss Yayorouba. Rose is a house maid and sometimes she works as a model for Malick Sidibe a world famous photographer. We will visit the barber shop of Keltoum Sennha

Germany 2005, 52 min
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Even in 1993 Vulkan manager Josef Klar warned about container ships with more than 6.000 TEU. A TEU is a standard container with a length of 20 feet. Klar claimed that vessels of this size could not be competitive. The largest container vessels built today carry 8,000 TEU, have a length of 335 metres and a width of over 42 metres, corresponding to 3 football fields. These giants are driven by the biggest diesel engines possible nowadays, with nearly 100,000 hp, and are designed for a high speed

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

Germany 2002
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Up to now the fishery agreement between the EU and Morocco has made it possible for the Spanish fleet to fish Moroccan waters dry, a region which still had one of the highest fish populations in the world in the 1980s. In the meantime Morocco has undertaken great efforts to build up its own fishing industry. Now, for example, the state is setting up new fishing villages with training centres. Exemplary cooperation is already being developed between Bremen and the fishery centre in Dakhla. The do

Germany 2002
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Kansai was the first airport built at great effort and expense in the sea. The gigantic structure and symbol of sophisticated Japanese engineering, which started operation on a man-made island measuring five square kilometres in 1994, soon made negative headlines, however. The island slowly started to sink. In spite of the disaster in Kansai, several Asian airports followed its example. The new “Incheon” airport in Korea, the “Chek Lap Kok“ airport in Hong Kong as well as the “Changi“ airport in