Films by Sven Hill

Germany 2013, 80 min
by Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier

The film tells of land surveyors, self-surveyors, bacteria collection and locality research. It gives insight into the behaviour of German drivers leaving their parking spaces and demonstrates that the shells of tortoises in fact represent the innermost order of the world.Apparently normal citizens at home getting high on weird and self developed statistics, or trying to get a handle on the orderly nature of their bodily functions by means of complicated autoexperiments; researchers using system

Germany 2010, 80 min
by Jörg Haaßengier, Jürgen Brügger

The film takes us on a journey through urban periphery, which, despite being right on our doorstep, is entirely unfamiliar territory for most of us. Think of the late afternoon drive to IKEA. It is a journey through a characterless and anonymous landscape that appears to express nothing whatsoever. It is as if we had just parked the car on the hard shoulder, climbed over the barrier and fought our way through the brambles to the white areas on our mental street map. The alleged no-man’s land b