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Born in Tokyo, Sylvia Schedelbauer first moved to Berlin in 1993, where she has been based since. She studied at the University of Arts Berlin. Her films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms mainly through poetic manipulations of found and archival footage.
Total trailers found: 12
14 January 2008
A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles.
18 February 2018
Gushing colors. A time disjointed, yet synchronous. A transcendent turn, a quest for agency, a reunion with currents of the forest.
13 May 2020
An expanding feeling, unfolding new inflections—forever different, forever changing.
01 June 2011
A man in a forest is subject to a flood of impressions; structurally rhythmic waves of images and sounds give form to his introspection.
30 April 2022
An imaginary cassette tape repeats a famous piece of music in self-referential loops.
29 August 2022
Borrowing its title from the memoir of early Japanese suffragette Hiratsuka Raichō, In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun plunges deep into an oceanic vortex of saturated color and fleeting archival images, conjuring moments from the history of Japanese women’s movements in a headlong montage of bodies in protest, pulsating into abstraction.
15 May 2004
A woman grows up during the bubble economy in Japan. Why did her parents never speak about the past? Using a box full of photos found in her family archive, the filmmaker tries to construct one version of a family history.
01 January 2009
A layered tone poem of found images and woven soundscapes renders a shifting psychogram; a nomadic passage across spaces in and out of time.
01 January 2007
A found-footage montage which combines many types of archival documentary footage with a pseudo-personal narrative, blending various individual recollections with literary texts.
08 September 2014
Sylvia Schedelbauer's stroboscopic cascade of evocative images conflate landscapes and the human body.
12 March 2025
In Mother’s Letter, Sylvia Schedelbauer evokes her mother’s perspective. Drawing from her family archive, the film addresses the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship, often defined by unspoken tensions and unresolved histories.
