Joanna Piechotta

Movies

Wander
Cinematography
A gigantic catastrophe has happened and is interrupted for two or three days. Three strangers find themselves stranded on an empty island, between desperation and a hopeless situation. What to do with the remaining time? But on the second day the sea delivers a silent man. The three survivors fall in love with the assumed saviour and forget about the catastrophe.
THE LASTING FORMATION
Director of Photography
The documentary explores the school system of the GDR - educational mandate and ideological terror side by side.
Progress in the Valley of the People Who Don’t Know
Director of Photography
Shadowed by weekly, racist demonstrations in East Germany former factory workers of the German Democratic Republic together with Syrian refugees embark on a self-taught immigration course to share the memories of their lost homelands.
trustWHO
Cinematography
Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King
Adam
Director of Photography
Adam tells the story of a techno musician, who after years of hospitalizations for alcoholism makes her son swear that he will never let her spend the rest of her life in an institution. When her doctors diagnose her with permanent brain damage, 20-year-old Adam, who is deaf and completely on his own, must decide whether to break his promise to his mother or help her die...
Tracing Addai
Gaffer
In 2013 Addai joins a salafistic group in Syria. The encounter of Addai's mother with Ilias, a homecomer from Syria, gives rise to invidual fragments, by means of which the story of the son and comrade can be traced.
Narration
Director of Photography
NARRATION analyzes the principle of storytelling not only through artistic practice, but also as a form of interpersonal communication. In six connected Topics divided - The Setting, The Situation, The Narrator, The Approach, The Past, The Construct - NARRATION narrates of the elements that allow words and pictures and any Structural feature to form every form of a story.
J'ai tout donné au soleil sauf mon ombre
Director of Photography
The Demon, the Flow and Me
Director of Photography
«The Demon, the Flow and Me» should be the title, exclaims TJ — a movie about identity. TJ is a man in his late 50s who lives in a Chrysler Cordoba parked in a drive-way next to a porn shop in Berlin, a survival artist who celebrates solitude. While the camera documents his life as a drop out from mainstream society, TJ developes his vision of a film. In a grandiose act of self-staging he creates himself in front of the camera.