This film follows the events triggered by a young man's killing of a leopard with a self-made trap in Kara, Southern Ethiopia. Anthropologist Felix Girke and film-maker Steffen Köhn follow the protagonists as a social drama slowly emerges: during the feast which celebrates the hunter's achievement, a challenge as to the ownership of the precious hide is issued. The events of the film reveal how ritual rules are strategically manipulated and contested for not entirely evident reasons.

A short film based on an interview in a bakery in Berlin. When I first struck up a conversation with the people working there, they told me that they were from Iraq. As we continued talking to each other, they became more and more insistent on the fact that they were all Kurdish, and that they were making bread after a Kurdish tradition. A sign above the shop window that says “Oriental flat bread” in German, and I was curious to find out why the bakery “orientalized” itself. The answer to this question is not simple at all, and cannot be found in this film. What emerges instead is a fragment of a story suppressed between national narratives of war, displacement and migration.

“On the one hand, cooperation doesn't seem to make us free. On the other hand, living without cooperation doesn't make us free, either. How can we stay free in cooperation? What is free cooperation?” The concept of free cooperation is an attempt to base emancipation, political theory and left politics (once more) on free negotiations and equal negotiating power. Spehr doesn't believe in simple “non-hierarchical” or “free” structures - there are always rules, responsibilities, structures of decision making and so on... the question is, which ones. He insists on the option of refusal and the right of withdrawal from cooperation, as well as negotiation and renegotiation with corporate or state monsters, and explores how ideas of independence, equality, and freedom can be useful for alternative networks of learning (in or outside the institutions). To explore these issues, Spehr refers to Science-Fiction, drawing on the language of this genre which, by changing and shifting the face of reality as we know it, highlights the underlying structures of this reality. In his view, this language is a powerful vehicle to talk about possibilities, desires, emancipation and social change.

Two opposing September elevens and related cross. September 11th 1973, military push in Chile. The tape explores the trans-textuality of memory while making an implicit critique of mass media and their depiction of violence. The fissure between these two aspects, as well as the friction between present, memory and historical pass, is the site from which the video sets itself forth.

The relation between politics and media is exposed. The American election campaign reduced to its essence: score! 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

Paradise Later is a documentary adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel "Heart of Darkness." Inside the head of a trader, we travel on a river that meanders through apocalyptic scenery. Available online until December 27th 2020.