Movies: Deborah S. Phillips

The adventure of Melissa and Gustavo starts aboard a red cargo ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It takes them from Brazil to Berlin, a city of perpetual movement, where the old constantly has to give space to the new. The couple finds a home and tra...

Completed in 2024. 40 sec, Super 8...

My mother, Carol Frieda Herman P. Hirsch, Chaya bas Moshe ve Yehudit, died on June 23, 2022, at home, the way she wanted her last weeks to be. Self-determined, surrounded by majestic trees outside the windows, with birds chirping in the background. W...

After a tough time, a little bit of lightness is called for itself. A search for beauty in the world around me. (Deborah S. Phillips)...

There is such a variety of places where you can find water in Berlin: sometimes, you feel like you are in the countryside, other times, it is industrial, or just full. This project has been an excuse to spend time at places where there are bodies of ...

My (former) neighbour, Samer is a trained translator & interpreter between Arabic and Chinese & would like to work as such. A visual exploration of the gap between what systems expect & reality & a human stuck in between. Negative developed in black...

Part 4 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....

Short by Deborah Phillips....

A tribute to a special place – Kunstquartier Bethanien...

Part 2 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....

Part 3 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....

Part 1 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....

Reflections on the joy of being able to use a large studio to paint & to be able to film as well for a short time. Filmed in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin-Kreuzberg....

when an artist has to improvise... she finds something green in it...

After 13 years of artistic research into the 3 colours of light (which started with CAPSICUM), this film (also made a handmade book) looks into the colour that is, bascially, life - green....

Green turns red, so my colours come full circle....

Ruminations about the color red....

This is composition reacting to a whinging zeitgeist, threatened with the possibility of war. A still-life in time, a means of having hope. The Allam house is in Esfahan was being renovated when we were there. It had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq...

Set in the near future, a collective of queer-feminist superhero*ines make use of their different identities, backgrounds and experiences to fight back against sexual and gender-based violence – a fusion of science, technology, magic, and ritual. Cla...

A path doesn't always go straight - everything has to go around corners.......