So, I (don’t) cycle
2025
Producer, director, cinematographer, editor

Our experience of the world is shaped by how we move around. Set in Vienna, a city aspiring to become a model for cycling friendly planning, this short film presents video portraits of four residents who have immigrated from Syria, Afghanistan, and China, each with a different relationship to cycling. Through their personal stories, the film offers fresh perspectives on mobility, belonging, and everyday life in the city. Embedded in a wider network of initiatives that support adults in learning to cycle and cycling more often, the film reflects on how cycling can become a tool for inclusion. The film is part of the EMCY project (Enabling Migrants to Cycle), which aims to diversify the representation of cycling in Vienna.

Collaboration with University of Vienna, stape e.U., Vienna University of Technology and klarFAKT. This project is financed by funds from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) (www.ffg.at).

work in between
2024
Assistant director, cinematographer, graphics

Care work is rarely visible. It takes place in the background, is mostly performed by women, is underpaid and undervalued. Work between us is a cinematic journey through the care landscape of Austria, a reflection on our ideas about care and an observation of different forms of caring. The film team poses questions about the Austrian healthcare system and the ways we’ve (un)learnt to live together: How are family carers coping? What circumstances do 24-hour carers find themselves in? And how is inclusion practiced in care institutions in Austria? In discussions with researchers, care workers and activists, it becomes clear that practitioners have a lot to say to politicians about a societal re-evaluation of care work, possible reforms, or even the complete collapse of the care system. The film gives care experts a voice and highlights the interdependencies we need to function as a society, to live in a meaningful relationship with our social environment.

The film was made in the context of the ‘Caring Communities for Future Open Innovation in Science Impact Lab’ funded and coordinated by the Open Innovation in Science Center of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft.

Screenings:
- Ethnographic Film Review "Eyes and Lenses", 28-29 November, 2025. Warsaw.
- OIS zam: Forum 2025. Gemeinsam Wissen schaffen organized by the Open Innovation in Science Centers of the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Gesellschaft, ÖBB Open Innovation Factory, 9 October, 2025. Vienna.
- Medical Anthropology Europe Conference 2025. Vienna.
- Vienna Anthropology Days international conference 2024. Vienna.
- Lebensgroß Messequartier, 20 January, 2025. Graz.
- Belvedere 21, Blickle Kino, 28 November, 2024 [Closing event 'Caring Communities for Future Impact Labs' of the Open Innovation in Science Center of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft]. Vienna.

Working With the Mussels
2023
Director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor

The number 1 species that have gone extinct since the 1950s are mussels. The shy mussel has an important role in keeping the waters clean and preparing nutrients for others. In this film, I analyze how a small group of rewilding specialists are trying to save freshwater pearl mussels, an endangered species in Estonia. It portrays the different ways how experts are taking care and nurturing the mollusk whilst it grasps for survival amidst the 6th mass extinction.

The film was part of the CONTOURS: Conservation, Tourism, Remoteness project, an ERA-NET funded research initiative (2021–2023) examining conservation and tourism in remote regions of Europe and Russia.

Screenings:
- Kolga Seltsimaja, 21 May, 2024. Estonia.

Frauen in Fahrt
2022
Director, cinematographer, editor

How to encourage women to cycle who have never cycled before? Moreover, how do they perceive cycling whilst having never cycled? An organization that teaches biking is returning the feeling of empowerment back to women and giving them the ability to move freely in the city of Vienna.

The research project is co-funded by the Stadt Wien and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

Papa
2021
Director, cinematographer, editor

Papa is 93 years old and has been living alone for the past 5 years. Life is different compared to the past: his joints are stiff, body covered up with crumpled up skin, and everything takes longer time and bigger effort. Every weekend he is being visited by his children and grandchildren to offer some company, check up on him and help Papa with everyday tasks. It is hard to live in an old body and it is hard to see a body becoming old. Especially if it is someone close to you.

Screenings:
- Pärnu International Documentary and Science Film Festival, 2023. Estonia.
- Best of BFM (BOB), Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University, 2021. Estonia.

What Is On The Minds of Viennese People
2022
Director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor

Street art can be a message by invisible people written visibly onto walls, posts, ground, doors, etc. What makes it extra fascinating is that this art gives voice to the voiceless, to the people of the city, to make their opinion public whilst remaining anonymous: in this way one might be able to voice their political, social or personal feelings, beliefs, thoughts and understandings; to show resistance, power and/or agency. Discovering the city landscape through invisible people.

Screenings:
- Vienna Anthropology Days international conference, 2022.

Wiener Waschbären
2022
Director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor, colorist

Investigates Vienna’s dumpster diving community.

Screenings:
- ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, 2022. Vienna.

Salty, spicy, crunchy
2021
Director, sound designer, editor

Screenings:
- Finno-Ugric Film Festival (FUFF), 2021. Estonia.