Melanie Jilg

Filmes

Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
Editor
If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. They meet Amanda Reiter, a trans* marathon runner who has to struggle with the prejudices of sports organisers, and Annet Negesa, a 800m runner who was urged by the international sports federations to undergo hormone-altering surgery. Together they create a radical poetic utopia far from the rigid gender rules found in competitive sports.
Solastalgia
Editor
Edda has been overcome by solastalgia: anguish over the destruction of our planet. Seeking refuge on the North Frisian island of Pellworm, she meets Sophie, a young farmer who is suing the German government for her right to a future, in this artistic, veracious immersion in the lives of the Fridays for Future generation.
Dead Sea Dying
Editor
A kaleidoscopic vision of a mythical and contested place where tourists, mystics, pilgrims in search of Salvation or even entrepreneurs busy building luxury hotels rub shoulders. While the Dead Sea gradually disappears and the earth literally opens up under their feet, Dead Sea Dying offers an audacious rereading of the Biblical past, transfigured before our eyes into a curious dystopia.
Air
Foley Artist
Louk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace.
Surface Glaze
Camera Operator
The short experimental film as an installation captures multiple abstractions of human bodies and transform those with torrents of liquids into unreal creatures. Each frame is composed to raise questions about our concepts of superficiality by deploying extreme technical features as high speed recording and close-ups. These techniques - borrowed from the symbolic language of consumerist culture - are used to expose the cracks in the smooth surface of the canvas for capitalized dreams.
Hauptfiedhof
Writer
Docuemntary about a cemetery.
Hauptfiedhof
Director
Docuemntary about a cemetery.
Blaha und Blüten
Executive Producer