Objectives and Influences

Avant-guard in film making including a narrative
- Maya Deren 40ies,50ies ("Meshes of the afternoon", also worked with Duchamp on an unfinished film)
- Luis Buñuel
- Alexandro Jodorowsky, Mexico 60ies, 70ies
- David Lynch, USA 60ies and now

Rethinking cinema/TV
- French New Wave ( Francoise Truffaut) 50-60ies
- New German Cinema (Werner Herzog, Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders) 60-80ies
Working with low budget and influenced by the French New Wave, "small" motion pictures and full feature length,
a reaction to the artistic and economic stagnation of German cinema
"Der alte Film ist tot. Wir glauben an den neuen" ("The old cinema is dead. We believe in the new cinema")
- Dogme 95 (Denmark, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg) 1995-2005

Reality Fiction Mix
- Persiflage of reality eg. Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"
- Reality shows eg. "Survival", "The Osbournes"
- Harald Schmidts Biography written 2009 (Ich hatte 3000 Frauen - Deutschlands größter TV-Star packt aus)
- BRUNO by Sasha Baron Cohen

Naive Film making
- " Die Bettwurst " by Rosa von Praunheim, Germany 1971 /// Check BEST OF VIDEO
- Youtube contributions by amateurs eg. narration in front of the computer filmed over a web cam (eg. http://www.stupidvideos.com/)
Check this, currently my favorite!!!: CAT IN A BOX

Community art/film projects
- Flash mobs
- Open competitions
- Miranda July (Learning to love you more)
- Rirkrit Tiravanija (food and sculpture–performance–guerrilla action)