DIE FLIEGEN (The Birds II)
THE FLIES (The Birds II)

film type experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2010 runtime 7'00 colour
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo

THE FLIES is an experimental sequel of Hitchcocks THE BIRDS, filmed with a high-speed camera system at the Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology in Jena. Its miniature architecture was built in Greiz, where Oskar Sala - sound designer for THE BIRDS - was born in 1910. 100 years later, Greiz is one of the shrinking cities in the eastern part of Germany and its abandoned places are attacked by insects.

director Susann Maria Hempel Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Oskar Sala Schnitt / Editing Susann Maria Hempel Bildgestaltung / DOP Susann Maria Hempel Produktion / Production Susann Maria Hempel Drehbuch / Script Susann Maria Hempel Tongestaltung / Sound Design Susann Maria Hempel, Jan M. Sieber
Festivals
Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig, Germany
Filmfest Hamburg, Germany
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany (No Budget Publikumspreis)
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Susann Maria Hempel

Born 1983 in Greiz;
from 2001 to 2009 she studied media design at the Bauhaus University Weimar

Filmography
2011 Die Fliegen (The Birds II)
2012 Wie ist die Welt so stille
2013 Der große Gammel
2014 Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen
2022 Die Hüter des Unrats. Eine kurze Geschichte des Abfalls