Films by Philip Glass

Germany 2019, 90 min
by Antje Drinnenberg

Without Ali, I would not stand where I'm standing now!´, says Raschad, one of the protégés of boxing trainer Ali Cukur. Week after week, young people like Raschad, Saskia and Burak meet in a small gymnasium of TSV 1860. Many of them have already gone through quite a lot in their lives. For them, Ali is a role model, a father, a lifesaver. He relocates his annual boxing camp to Ghana. Confronted with the tough circumstances under which the Ghanaian boxers are training in the slums of Accra, the y

2019, 11 min
by Lutz P. Kayser

The short essay film is the artistic documentation of aesthetic swarm intelligence. The middle part of the essay film gives the impression that the starlings only did their meditative rounds for my cameras after my direction. These six minutes essentially consist of an en bloc shot, which I adjusted exactly to the track with only a few cuts and in which, as with the rest of the film, I do without special effects. I leave the screen to the swarms of starlings, they are art! it ́s about perception