2000 5’ DV color/bw german with french/english subtitles
Production: Studio Katalin Schaak

A cinematographic Diptych showing a group of people disguised with venetian masks waiting on a boat in front of a closed water gate in Canal of Paris while an off speaker reads a letter of the artist’s mother reporting pastoral everyday activities followed by a black and white silent shot showing a girl sleeping in the subway.

2001 DV b/w 10’
Composer: Violeta Dinescu (performed by Dorothea von Albrecht (violoncello) and
Christine Olbrich (piano))
Cast: Katalin Schaak, Wael Noureddine
Production: Studio Katalin Schaak, Ensapc Paris, Goethe Institute Beirut

A young woman and a young man meet one afternoon in front of an abandoned cinema in Beirut and draw themselves into a mouvement between continuity and discontinuity, loss and enchantment- possibly a reflection of the city itself. A homage to silent cinema. The title (arabic: red) refers to the name of a closed cinema and to the name of the downtown area in Beirut.

2001 DV color 10’ arabic with english/french subtitles
Loop /Exhibited as Installation
Production: Studio Katalin Schaak, Zico House Beirut

Early hour in Beirut. The picture shows a 90 degree panorama over the urban skyline in a back and forth movement as a cultural worker reports on his kidnapping by the State’s Secret Service.

2003 S8 transferred to DV color 10’ silent
Loop /Exhibited as Installation
Production: Studio Katalin Schaak

A nocturne shot at the Sants Rail station in Barcelona. A global congress challenges the city’s possibilities for accommodation. The film shows stranded passengers gathering at the station in the wake of a day to come. An anamorphosis of the gaze, a visual ode to inter-seminal spaces between the common and the singular.

ongoing piece DV loop, b/w, various length
Music: ‘Tierra querida’ Astor Piazzola
Studio Katalin Schaak
Loop/Exhibited as Installation or Screening

A title strip made out of the names of individuals which the artist has met on the way to her exhibitions or to those of her friends. The music of Astor Piazzola ‘Tierra querida’ encounters a form of Aesthetics of Relations in the sense of Nicolas Bourriaud.

2007 DV color 14’ video-triptych loop silent

The work is composed by three videos showing the same passage of a ferry crossing the Danube while carrying local citizens at the outskirts of Budapest.

2008 DV color 5’ video-installation loop silent
Double-channel projection onto the corner of a white cube 400 cm x 400 cm
picture size 45 cm x 30 cm each

A video-installation showing the mirrored picture of a shot on a highway by just capturing the lanterns with alteration in sizes. The title refers to a translation of a book by philosopher Paul Virilio reflecting on a society in constant mobility.

2008 3’ 16 mm loop silent
Production: Studio Katalin Schaak, Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Galerie Umtrieb Kiel
Funded by: Radius Program Heinrich Boell Foundation Germany

A shot showing the difficulty of pedestrians crossing a street in a traffic junction in Cairo creating a fluid movement with uncontrolled cuts imposed by the mechanic charging system of a Krasnogorsk 16 mm camera.

A one-angle-shot in a habitation district in Berlin at winter time showing daily human activities. The shot ends when the camera shuts down due to the camera´s functionally requested minimum outside temperature.

2009 DV 10’ Format 16:9
Documentation video of a temporary installation created in the Bay of Zlarin Island on the Adriatic Sea

The installation is made out of 1001 candles connected to each other via an underwater string and weight system designed to reproduce the star system in its summer constellation.