Nina Rippel

How do blind people perceive the world and which sensory impressions remain hidden from sighted people? The experimental film explores this question in a multi-layered way. A sculptor's workshop, a painting museum and an orchestra become the settings for the richness that the perceptions of the different senses bring with them. Sound and image merge and bring the theme to life.

The small fishing village of Amble by the Sea on the Scottish North Sea coast is struggling with harsh living conditions and dwindling job opportunities. One day, they notice a dolphin feasting on the salmon and instead of moving on, he simply stays on the coast near the fishing village. He is soon christened Freddie and becomes a tourist attraction. Is this the turning point for Amble by the Sea?

Based on the idea of the "Cadavre Exquit", a literary game of the surrealists, video image and sound pieces were sent on the repeated (postal) journey between Hamburg and Vienna. A bond grew, which was composed of the associations of the artists and the respective ideas of the others, and a story was created that increasingly fell into the line of the absence of others.

A woman moves through the water, accompanied by cello tones.

The film shows a woman swimming from an unusual perspective—underwater. The images are created not in one place, but from constant movement. Movements that immediately convey a sensual, physical sensation. The camera captures the swimmer's movements.

A documentary about the children's area of the AFA (Active Leisure Activities Altona e. V.). For years, this leisure center was the fixed meeting place for children and young people. A meeting place in the Altona-Altstadt district, which is designated as a redevelopment area. The film describes the atmosphere and work in a sub-area of the AFA. The film is history, the AFA was dissolved in 1982.