Kassieren
Weeding

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2023 runtime 9'03 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround subtitles English

Who decides which stories are saved or discarded? In this documentary, three filmmakers are searching for archival material about a chemical factory in Cologne. A film about archiving, searching and discarding, about gaps and mistakes, and about the resistance of the material.

director Franca Pape, Lea Sprenger, Amelie Vierbuchen Production Lea Sprenger, Amelie Vierbuchen, Franca Pape Editing Lea Sprenger, Franca Pape Sound Design Lea Sprenger, Franca Pape DOP Lea Sprenger, Amelie Vierbuchen, Franca Pape Script Lea Sprenger, Franca Pape film school Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
Festivals
2023 DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany
2023 KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
2024 filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany
2024 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2024 Sehsuechte – Internationales Studierendenfilmfestival Sehsüchte, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
2024 Raindance Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
School
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Heumarkt 14
  • 50667 Köln
  • Germany
  • +49 221 201890
  • http://www.khm.de
Distribution
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • +49 221 20189 330
  • https://www.khm.de/
Sales
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • +49 221 20189 330
  • https://www.khm.de/
Production
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
  • Solveig Klaßen

Franca Pape

Franca Pape works and studies media arts in Cologne. Before that, she dropped out of art studies in Münster and completed her MA in Cultural Poetics. She works humorously between theory, text, film, and drawing and focuses on collective work.

Filmography
2023 Kassieren

Lea Sprenger

Lea Sprenger is studying at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Prior to that, she completed philosophy and media studies. In her filmic and installative works she deals with themes related to archiving, searching, and the digital self.

Filmography
2023 Kassieren

Amelie Vierbuchen

Amelie Vierbuchen lives and works in Cologne, where she is studying media arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In her approaches she explores border areas of identity, perception, body, and form, often in collaboration with microorganisms or starting from events in the microcosm.

Filmography
2023 Kassieren