WHAT IS MUSIC, 2004 (Music Video)



4 min.
music video DV > transfered HD

Music video for the release of Justus Köhnckes first solo album for Kompakt records, "Was Ist Musik?", which combined the clubby side of his music and his very special approach towards german-language electronic pop songs.

The video was shot at the famous Radio Telescope Effelsberg near Bonn, Germany, an observatory unique in Europe dedicated to researching astronomical objects through radio and infrared emissions.

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CHI L'HA VISTO, 2009/10 (Drama, Road Movie)



92 min.
Theatrical Feature Film DV > transfered 35 mm
Founded by FFA German Federal Film Board
and Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

In CHI L'HA VISTO we accompany the protagonist Gianni Meurer on a journey from Berlin to Italy. There, Gianni a man in his early thirties, searches for his father he last saw 25 years ago. Besides pale childhood memories, everything Gianni has from his father, are a couple of letters and a photograph. Gianni shows this photo to everyone he meets on his way to Rome where he suspects his father.

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KEN - THE MOVIE, 2019 (Drama, Road Movie)



90 min.
Theatrical Feature Film > DCP

IN PRODUCTION

KEN - THE MOVIE is a hypnotic journey through today’s America and the inner world of the offbeat musician Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, R.E.M., Big Star). The fim tells a fictional story of the real American musician (48), who left America 15 years ago. After a failed relationship, the fictional character KEN sets out for his homeland to look for his roots.

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VIDEOTAPES, 2006 (Documentary)



80 min.
HD Video Documentary Film Serial
published on SPEX DVD Collection
DVD Release 2005-2007

VIDEOTAPES is a collection of personal short film documentaries which were published as a serial on the DVD collection of German SPEX Magazine.

The videos were selected out of a body of work which was directed and produced in between 2005-2007. A personal diary showing the intimate world around us.

TOUCHED (WT), 2019 (Social Drama)



90 min.
Theatrical Feature Film > DCP

IN FINANCING

TOUCHED (WT) tells the story of MARIA (19), an overweight young woman, who finds physical self-confidence in a home for disabled people, where she works. But there she becomes entangled in an emotional and sexual dependance with MIKE (32), one of the residents.

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SUSANNE, 2004 (Documentary)



80 min.
documentary DV > transfered HD

The central theme of SUSANNE is the relationship of two young women who were particularly affected by the East-West separation of Germany trying to struggle to free themselves only with difficulty from the old role patterns. 

A co-production of Claudia Rorarius
and ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel


PINK IS BLACK (WT), 2019 (Transsexual Drama)



100 min.
Theatrical Feature Film > DCP

IN FINANCING

What if your identical twin sister wants to become a man?
In PINK IS BLACK (WT) the twin sisters, Eva and Kristiane, are inseparable, as a successful professional synchronized swimming duo. Kristiane, though, can no longer endure the feeling that she was born in they wrong body. She knows she will only find fulfillment as an open living man and has begun a testosterone therapy. The more Kristiane changes the deeper Evas crisis becomes, as she begins to question her own identity.

BLUE (happy without you), 2002 (Music Video)



4 min.
music video DV > transfered HD

Music video for the song BLUE (HAPPY WITHOUT YOU), which appears on the album Northern Classic / Karaoke Kalk records by German electro-pop duo Donna Regina. Donna Regina appeared on the German avant-pop scene in the beginning of the 1990s.

The video was shot in the morning hours at the Airport Cologne Bonn.

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TWIN, 2001 (Drama)



15 min.
Short film 35 mm
Founded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

The film tells the adventure of twin-brothers who both fall in love with the same girl. The identical twins Till and Tom live in a tower block in Berlin. One fine day, a girl moves into the building and puts the two boys off balance.

A co-production of Claudia Rorarius
and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne

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MY GRANNY, 1998 (Documentary)



30 min.
documentary super16, DV > transfered HD

MY GRANNY is an intimate portrait of my grandmother Else Rorarius, born in 1914 in Pomerania, in present-day Poland. A documentary of the relationship with her husband who died in the second world war and left my father only 10 days after his birth.

A co-production of Claudia Rorarius
and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne

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CABLE CAR, 2000 (Drama, Lovestory)



12 min.
Short Film super16 > transfered 35 mm
Founded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

CABLE CAR tells the story of a shy girl meeting a blind boy in a cable car. Thirteen-year-old Julia has no desire to go on a trip with her father and his new girlfriend. Especially not in the Cologne cable car. But then, in the gondel, she meets Sven, a blind boy.

A co-production of Claudia Rorarius and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne

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