Films by Sonja Baeger

Germany 2021, 25 min
by Bernadette Hauke

Insects are neither cute nor beautiful, but very exciting, thinks eleven-year-old Pepe from Berlin. His favorite animals are dragonflies, which control their four wings individually and can take off faster than a jet. And the bombardier beetle, which sprays hot poison in the face of its enemies so that it is not eaten. But where do these insects still exist and how do they live? Pepe knows that many insects are going extinct in Germany because their habitat is being taken away. He wants to change that!

Germany 2020, 25 min
by Bernadette Hauke

When the ground wobbles under his feet, Laurin knows: only a few roots prevent it from sinking into the swamp. He doesn't find that scary, but rather exciting. Marshes are habitat for many plants and animals and they store more CO2 than all trees combined. That is why Laurin wants to prevent peat from being extracted and the last of the marshes from being destroyed imore and more.

Germany 2018, 25 min
by Bernadette Hauke

To be completely in the moment of here and now, acting spontaneously and impulsively, these are some of Kilian's special characteristics. He was born with Trisomie 21. That means Kilian doesn't only look different, his way of thinking and feeling is diverse to other children. There are many things Kilian can do - he just makes them differently and more intensively. For a long time Kilian dreams of assisting his favourite clowns Gensi and Chistirrin at Circus Roncalli. When he gets the opportunity to do so, he goes on an emotional roller coaster ride between overboarding enthusiasm and the big worry of "will I be able to make it?".

Germany 2010, 73 min
by Sonja Baeger

As we get to know the internationally reknowned, Berlin based, German artist Thomas Zipp, we discover the background of his installations, which refer to the human urge of hubris and selfdestruction and are dark and humourous at the same time. His interest in psychonautics – the research of the psyche and the subconscious – is the angle from which he questions the supporting pillars of our culture and education. As he connects acknowledged values and historical characters beyond logic, he uses the freedom of art to create and claim a playfully anarchistic monument of thought. Another important part of Thomas Zipp's way of expressing himself is music. In various constellations with artist-friends they improvise a kind of psychedelic noise-rock, enriched with self-developed instruments, like a cast- iron bell (with the inscription: mind over matter) and air-raid sirens. The film has no voice-over and interweaves looking and thinking about art within the flow of storytelling. It consists of a broad variety of situations and moods: from daytoday life to being the star of his shows, up to all-night music-sessions in a country house, where art-production and rock 'n' roll come together. In chronological order of events, the scenes become a contemporary document (2006-2009), which turns the introduction to the art of Thomas Zipp into a film experience.