Films by Sophia Schiller

2022, 70 min
by Max Viktor Herbert

How does the depiction of war change in times of Smartphones and the internet? This documentary uses only YouTube material filmed by soldiers, journalists, civilians or war zone tourists to portray the absurd global theater of war and its depiction through GoPro cameras, TV and VLOGs. A study of modern war aesthetics, the promotion of romanticizing and glorification of war.

Germany 2019, 58 min
by Marie Falke

Gideon Bachmann instructs Marie Falke with the inventory of his belongings. An accumulation of dozens of boxes, well-filled with his articles, photographies, love letters and film reels. An enormous conglomeration of stories of a man who can be characterised as a witness of the 20th century.Trial and Error recounts the encounter between the aging cosmopolitan who struggles with death and a young film student who's seeking stories. In this manner the documentary establishes a discourse about life