18 years after its making I revisit the interactive documentary 13thFloor wearing the glasses I wear now. Contents In 2004, German writer Kolja Mensing and media artist Florian Thalhofer spent 31 days in Grohner Düne, a 1970s social housing complex on the outskirts of Bremen that is home to 1,600 people. …

Quite a few of my best friends are getting uncomfortable whenever I’m going to start saying this word once again: “multi-perspective”. Because this is what I call what I have been seeing more and more and everywhere for a few years now, like a little plant that is slowly spreading…

A few words about stories, consider them true. As true as stories can be. All stories are made, are constructed, are artificial, would never occur so in nature. …

“Everything is a tool that shapes thinking?” you might ask, “How is a cup a tool that shapes thinking?”. This question can be answered with a simple thought experiment, that works for any thing or thought that has not been present at an earlier point in time. The thought experiment…

Edmund Carpenter’s sentence sounds like a magic trick. How can you make something invisible in plain sight? The cliché is the derivative of an original and the original was at some point reality, the world out there, in all its complexity. The original contains the infinity of possible choices that…

People often ask me what I want to say with what I say. They ask me things like „What is the message of your film?” and then they ask me „And who is the audience for your films, for your texts, for what you put out into the world?”. I…

It’s because of the mobile phone that he’s so stressed, says the friend in a small group. Because it terrorizes him, he says. It beeps all the time and wants his attention because some company is making a lot of money with it — with his attention. And then he…

There is something fascinating happening at the moment. It is the debate about Facebook. However, it is about something quite different than the question of whether Facebook is good or bad or even whether the new communication media are good or bad in themselves. We can currently observe an important…

A few years ago, I pitched a TV show format together with a friend of mine at a festival in Barcelona. That means we were allowed to present our idea to television producers from all over Europe. The event was set up like a competition with a stage, audience and…