with Mira Film GmbH, Zürich    https://mirafilm.ch/en/the-true-film/

presentation at IDFA 2020 (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Forum)
https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/2ec313c7-edaa-4de5-b648-032227106c79/the-true-film/idfa-forum

presentation at GIFF 2021 (Geneva International Film Festival, Digital Market)
https://www.giff.ch/en/film/the-true-film/

supported by Fachausschuss Film/Medienkunst, Basel-Stadt/Baselland

The melt is on the left (2012) - music clip, video intervention

Music clip for a site-specific intervention at a multi-site art exhibition (Regionale 13). The video was shown on a shuttle bus crossing the German-Swiss border. A song about the paradoxies of residential restrictions.

crew
lyrics, director, producer, editing: Christina Zimmermann
director of photography: Fatmir Gashi
sound: Florian Niekamp
camera and set assistant: Nina Stefanka

Switzerland | music clip | 3 min | FullHD | color | Dolby SR

Shifting ground (2011-2012) - multi-channel video-installation

Experimental investigations of the people’s subjection to climate in Japan. In July and August 2010, together with a dancer from Tokyo we collected clips of the rain and the latent risk of earthquakes. In the light of the natural and human-made disasters in march 2011 and their aftermath the light-heartedness of our performances turns dubious: It mirrors a calm and affirmative attitude towards the waywardness of nature, which through the recent tragic events will probably disappear for a long time.

dancer: Airi Suzuki
actor: Masahiko Suda, Dominique Turzer
concept, director and filming: Christina Zimmermann
translation: Airi Suzuki, Kozue Kinoshita

Japan/Germany | multi-channel video installation | FullHD | color | Dolby SR

Since the 18th century the protestant cemetery is a burial place for non-catholic foreigners. The cemetery is a memorial place, a workplace, a touristic site – and it is also one of the few green spots left in the city. On this heterotopian island of peace amidst the roman traffic noise 70 abandoned cats spend their lives. A day out there reveals more about life than death.

script, director, producer, editor: Christina Zimmermann
director of photography: Stefanie Gaus
sound, translation: Raphaëlle de Germiny
sounddesign: Olaf Hochherz
supported by Bauhaus-University Weimar and Ministery for Building, Regional Development and Traffic of the Free State of Thuringia, Germany

documentary | 50 min | MiniDV | color | Dolby SR

A painful heart, never drying tears and twisted heads are difficult to treat, but fortunately not incurable...

Idea, design and director: Spela Cadez | Animation: Spela Cadez, Matej Lavrencic, Oliver Throm | Screenplay: Christina Zimmermann | Light: Michael Jörg | Edit: Eli Cortinas Hidalgo | Postproduction: Thomas Schmidl | Music: Mateja Staric | Sound Design: Johanna Herr | Tutors: Prof. Raimund Krumme, Prof. Thomas Bauermeister, Lutz Garmsen | Production: Academy of Media Arts Cologne | Foundation: Filmstiftung NRW

Germany / Slovenia | 2007 | puppet animation | 35 mm | 8:30 min | color | 1:1,85 | 25 FR | Dolby SR

read more and watch the film at http://spelacadez.com/lovesick.html

A young woman is translating a book and a young telegraphist would like to understand the secret encoded messages he is passing through day by day. Centred around the dark pole of the optical telegraph somewhere in no man's land "Long-distance writing" is a parable about people with difficulties to communicate directly with each other.

cast
Anna: Agnieszka Piwowarska
Johann: Robert Neumann
old telegraphist: Harald Warmbrunn
woman at post office: Veronika Nowag-Jones
land surveyor: Dietrich Schulz
crew
script, director, producer, editing: Christina Zimmermann
director of photography: Dirk Lütter
sound: Achim Strommenger
set design: Susanne Joachim
music: Manuel Schmitt
sound mixing: Ralf Schipke

supported by Filmstiftung NRW and local film funding Saxonia-Anhalt

Germany | 2004 | Short film | fiction | 16 mm | 27 min | color | Dolby SR

watch the film at https://vimeo.com/223511574