SARAH KRAMER

FILM

DO NOT DANCE

IDEA, CONCEPT, CAMERA, EDITING

2024

This film was made in collaboration with the artist Marie Heleen Samrotzki and the director Julian Quentin. The experimental short film is a hybrid form between music video, performance film and scenic film. It is about Mila, who finds herself in a seemingly endless repetitive choreography. With great effort, she merges with the others to form a machine. But what happens when suddenly everyone lets go or someone can no longer do it? It is about the feeling of being driven to function. Instead of being able to fight it or rebel against it, everyone works to cope with the situation as best they can. The revolution is thus replaced by the individual's own responsibility for self-optimization.

KEINE ANGST FÜR ALLE

DIRECTOR, CAMERA, PRODUCTION, EDITING

2023

26'

My second documentary short film is 26 minutes long and entitled "Keine Angst für Alle" (No Fear For Everyone). It is about an artist and musician named Lota, who lives in a small green oasis. A trailer park in the middle of an industrial area on the outskirts of Münster. There He makes music, thinks about the cruelties of this world and - as soon as the machines stop - plays golf with his girlfriend Mone in the man-made deserts of the industrial area. The film is a homage to the imperfect and playful, but also deals with a counter-culture that seeks its freedom in the offside.

>>> to see a short part of the movie click here: https://vimeo.com/744753993/a387c2ecb6

GETEILTE EWIGKEITEN

DIRECTOR, CAMERA, PRODUCTION, EDITING

2023

30'

My first short documentary entitled "Geteilte Ewigkeiten" (Shared Eternities) is about my grandparents' lives. Super8 footage of my grandfather from the 70s and 80s is compared to footage I took of them and their apartment - my grandfather had a passion for filming his own apartment, which still looks almost exactly the same 50 years later. The film deals with memories, but also leaves gaps, contains unfinished sentences, lost memories. It illustrates the speechlessness of a war generation that has never come to terms with the trauma of its childhood.

>>> to see a short part of the movie click here: https://vimeo.com/866102807/9a824d6541