Movies: Deborah S. Phillips

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...

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...

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

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 2 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....

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...

For decades, I've been walking up & down this road, usually starting at the centre of the universe, Hermannplatz, heading north to Bethanien or the market. At some point in time, it seemed that some of the plants, especially one, was telling me to ma...

Part 3 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....

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....

«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....

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 ...

A 35 mm. experimental film....

A third of a film-book-installation project. Three times fallen, three times restarted, three legs, three ends. The story of Jewish immigration....

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...

Deborah S. Phillips Super 8, stumm, 2005 2:30 min....

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)...

Short by Deborah Phillips....

Close-up cinema in London asked people who have shown films there in the last years whether they wanted to make a short film for their anniversary. So I gave their name some thought, which took me to words of proximity in different languages......

Part 1 of the Bethanien Tetralogy....