Films by Torsten Königs

Germany 2012, 85 min
by Torsten Königs, Christoph Tölle

”All men seek happiness. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.“ Blaise Pascal Four people in Berlin. Their life is all about addiction. Through them we get to know directly what it really means to be an addict. The film tells their stories strictly from their point of view. We as the viewers are present when their bodies ask for more, we watch how the heroin is bought, we observe preparation, consumption, having a high and suffering from the withdr

Germany 2009
by Torsten Königs

PiN2011 is the tag - the term used for the pen name that graffiti artists use to sign their work – of an ingenious and misunderstood German artist, who is incessantly followed by the documentary but manages to conceal his face right to the bitter end. A sort of streetArt outlaw, able to dream up three-dimensional graffiti and paint it on city walls even as far as Portugal. A captivating, intense tailing that continually questions the sense of making art against a system that excludes and destroy