On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With CELL 5, Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh's death using legal documents, testimonies and audiovisual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: how could Oury Jalloh burn to death?
Is a producer and director who looks back on 15 international short, medium, and feature-length films in diverse genres and formats. He produces in Chile, Brazil, India, the USA, and Germany. His interest lies in the intersection of art, politics, culture, anthropology, and human rights.
Filmography
2004 The Horizon Scene
2005 Cinema For The Blind
2006 IMPERIAL
2007 Sum Over Histories
2008 Untitled [Two Guys]
2008 Yet Untitled [Pieces of Nature]
2009 Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
2010 The Los Angeles River-Project
2010 A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE
2014 Approximation
2015 #blacktivist
2016 Corpo Fechado
2016 About Education and Fear
2017 Point of No Return
2020 Western Sahara – Africa's Last Colony
2020 Curse or Liberty
2023 Zelle 5 – Eine Rekonstruktion
