Apparitions: Five films from Geister Film
Nowhen is happy to present Apparitions: five shorts by Geister Film. Starting Friday, the 13th of June, a selection of five short films from the Hamburg collective will be available on Nowhen‘s new streaming section Nirgendwo for one month.
RIO
„Without talking, I am talking to you“ sing the singers accompanying Willie Colon in „Gitana“. Here figures talk without talking, mourn without mourning. Meanwhile, the animals do all this and more.
TOGETHER
In the heat of an apartment, bodies could fall apart any second, yet they persist, messily.
Živá Voda
Absences disperse and reconvene. Where there once was bodies, there is now only steam.
Dos amigos vuelven a casa solos de noche
Two friends observe, orient, decide and act in pursuit of their desire.
LE TANDEM
It begins with singing, then talk. Bodies and silence is all that remains.
Geister Film is a collective comprised of filmmakers Sandra Makhlouf, William Wrubel and Marlon Weber. Currently based in Hamburg, Germany.
Sandra Makhlouf was born into a Slovak-Syrian household in Slovakia. Based in Hamburg since 2012, she later began her studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg where she is currently continuing in the master’s programme. Her work focuses heavily on speech and work with language.
William Wrubel is a US-born filmmaker, currently based in Germany. In 2018 he earned his BA from Bard College, where he studied Film & Electronic Arts under Kelly Reichardt, Peter Hutton and Peggy Ahwesh. His undergraduate thesis film received the Peter Hutton Award for Commitment to the Art of Filmmaking. In 2024, he received his masters in narrative film from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. His debut feature film, “When We Saw Each Other More Often”, is currently in post-production.
Marlon Weber is a filmmaker from Berlin. Currently she is completing her masters in narrative film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian. Her short films have been shown in various festivals, among them International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
