Films by Philipp Hartmann

Germany, Bolivia 2021, 105 min
by Philipp Hartmann

In March 2020 25 young musicians from the Bolivian Experimental Orchestra for Indigenous Instruments OEIN came to Germany. Due to the covid pandemic, their concerts were canceled and then Bolivia shut down the borders – and the musicians were stuck in a Music Academy in Brandenburg for 3 months. Together with german colleagues, they face the crisis improvising contemporary music. By leaving the stage to the musicians, the camera becomes part of the improvisation, also opening up the question of

Germany, Argentinia 2021, 61 min
by Philipp Hartmann

A staged documentary – or a documentary fiction? - with the Argentinian film critic Roger Koza. The film is as much an intimate portrait of the real Roger Koza, shot with an iPhone by his friend – as also a fiction where Koza represents an Argentinian film critic spending the first months of a new decade in Hamburg. Accompanied by a strange chorus that comments his actions, and obsessively filming his surroundings with his iPhone, the protagonist experiences longings, joy, encounters, loneliness

Germany 2020, 85 min
by Danilo Carvalho, Philipp Hartmann

While the province of Dithmarschen in Northern Germany surrenders to climate change and sacrifices a huge area to the sea, the periodical droughts in the Brazilian Sertão become more and more severe. With associative stagings and not without humor, this docu-fictional film essay observes, first of all, the people. And the water – as a physical and metaphysical base of existence. Drama and daily life in times of climate change.With: Johannes Kirschbaum, Fernando Pimentel, Inga Richter, Larissa de