Die Fliegen (The Birds II)
The Flies (The Birds II)
Susann Maria Hempel
Susann Maria Hempel visits the ruins of her former home in Greiz and explores the beauty of decay. Her film is a homage to electronic music pioneer Oskar Sala, also a native of Greiz, who created the sound effects for Hitchcock’s The Birds. In collaboration with the Institute for Special Zoology and Evolutionary Biology in Jena, she choreographs flies moving to Sala’s music with a high-speed camera in an increasingly decaying environment.
Susann Maria Hempel
Susann Maria Hempel, born in Greiz (GDR) in 1983, studied media design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. She has received numerous scholarships, stipends and awards for her experimental films, including the German Short Film Award (Experimental Film category) and the Grand Prix Labo at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Since 2017, she has been working on radio projects alongside her film work. In 2019, she won the Radio Play of the Year award and the Radio Play Prize for War Blinded Veterans.
Films by Susann Maria Hempel
Die Hüter des Unrats. Eine kurze Geschichte des Abfalls 2022 | Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen 2014 | Der Grosse Gammel 2013 | Wie ist die Welt so stille 2012 | Die Fliegen (The Birds II) 2011 | Der Mann, der nicht weinen wollte 2009 | Der weinende Dritte 2008 | película 2007
