Money eats time and space. Berlin has endless time and space. Time and space are luxury. For crazy ideas, for transverse experiments, for urban subcultures, for the desires of the many black sheep living in this city there is no money. But black sheep also want money. A lot of it preferably! For they, too, are only colorful sheep in midst of a bleating mass society. They want, like all others, material success and fame. Swift! These ironic thoughts gave the impulse and the thematic initiative for me and my partner Oliver Kolb to start this highly anarchic film project. To keep it real we renounced film funding applications and began production with tiny private means. No money for a movie about ‘no money’ was the radical keyword. Every participant should only take part for pure commitment to and enjoyment of the project.

Our anarchistic fire sparked quickly and soon a group of gifted authors, professional co-workers and famous actors joined in. All hungry to make a movie production, in which experiments, crazy ideas and going beyond limits was permitted. Three tight months after the initial idea, our courageous team jumped into Berlin’s urban deserts and dirty jungle. Loaded with gallows humour and godly faith we fought our way through the production of five hair-raising urban fairy tales. Two months later all the footage was captured in the box and we soon realised that the unbound energy of our radical production methods can be felt on screen - and that our project will transform into a highly idiosyncratic  and incomparable German motion picture.

About the  Production & Editing

We were thrown into the status of producer rather unexpectedly - out of passion for the project and the will to give our best to make it happen. The rough cut was done by two German editors Sarah Weber und Andreas Radtke and myself. Andreas Radtke is a highly talented cutter of advertisements and has edited numerous German TV-movies, as well as cinematic productions. Sarah Weber has won last year’s German Film Award for Best Editing with ‚MUXMäuschenstill’. She is one of the most wanted cutters in the German film industry.

The sound editing and the sound design of this movie is particularly dear to me. It is essential for the communication of character particularities and the particular mood of the movie to its audiences. Sound- designer Ramon Orza, from Zurich, will be responsible for the audio- design and the sound edit. I worked with him during my last cinema production ‘Brombeerchen’ and am certain that he is the best choice for the creation of this movie’s soundscape ambience.

The realisation of the 3D Animations and visual effects will be taken over by Robi Müller (alias GFX www.sheep.ch), who lives and works in Zurich. SFX work mainly concerns the drug trip of the three young Turks at the end of the movie. This process will be intensive, because it is important for the storyline, and the quality of the movie to enable the audience to participate in the crazy hallucinations experienced by the three protagonists. Dices and Atom particles will fly over the skin of the boys, there are bears captured in light bulbs, flying Christmas trees and jumping presents… I want to enter a new reality at the end of the movie to surprise the viewer and take him/her outside of the raw reality of gravity- only to then fade-out with a soft, quiet nature-bound ending.

German Version