Deborah S. Phillips Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Deborah S. Phillips
Directing
Biography
DSP works in number of different fields: as an artist (who makes 2-, 3-, & 4-D images) as well as a translator and voice-over artist… from 1988 – 2001, she was an active member of the Braunschweig-based artists‘ collective LABORATORIUM, where she also started working with film as one of her materials, all the while continuing to paint, make artists‘ books, installations and more. her film BREAD was included in the Goethe Institut’s programme Deutsche Experimentalfilme der 90er Jahre. in 2007 she was one of the co-founders of what is now known as Kunstverein Neukölln, a gallery and centre of different forms of artistic activities. she conducted research into the colours red, blue and green for more than 10 years. CAPSICUM is a 16mm film accompanied by a red book. A 16mm-&-slide-collage-performance, series of paintings and book explore blue. Research into the last of 3 additive colours of light, green, was completed in 2017; a film called „Im grünen Bereich“, a green book & a series of green works-on-paper complete the trilogy… this, and more are now detailed in her comprehensive catalogue, completed in May 2018
Filmography Movies
Acting
Reasons to Scream!
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. Clashes and conflicts arise as they negotiate and try to come to a consensus on their aim of disrupting toxic hierarchies. The project is currently in post-production.
Muito Romântico
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 transforms it into the center of their own universe. As time passes and seasons change, life and cinema become interchangeable and their apartment evolves into an ever-changing stage, where friends are invited to play their own roles and reality and fiction merge. Until one day a cosmic portal appears in their home, opening connections between the past, the present and the future.
Production
Reasons to Scream!
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. Clashes and conflicts arise as they negotiate and try to come to a consensus on their aim of disrupting toxic hierarchies. The project is currently in post-production.
Mosaïc
In "Mosaïc", the Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs are based on images, drawings and photographs of intercultural places: Samarkand, Bukhara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalusia, Isfahan, Cairo, Istanbul...
Mosaïc
In "Mosaïc", the Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs are based on images, drawings and photographs of intercultural places: Samarkand, Bukhara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalusia, Isfahan, Cairo, Istanbul...
Untitled Colourmation
A path doesn't always go straight - everything has to go around corners....
Bread
Loosely based on Lewis Caroll's Through the looking glass, BREAD is a series of metamorphoses. We pass through a table into a world of strange mutations: bread crumbs bounce and dance. At the end gravity wins.
Santoor
A 35 mm. experimental film.
Noor
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 war.
Interlude
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)
1014
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. With her books in shelves nearby. Even when she lacked the energy to read, she was glad to have those books near her. And she enjoyed the smells of good food, her music and other simple things as long as it was possible. The choice to use film material that was way past its sell-by date corresponds with how, as one approaches the end of one’s life, things fall apart, gradually. A tribute.
71
«71» is guided by impressions and feelings of an artist during shooting: a feeling of absurdity that comes when one travels to the back of beyond without ever reaching anywhere.