“For filmmakers, there is no retirement age.” This quote by Wim Wenders is more than just a fine sentence to me. It describes quite accurately how I work, think and live. For around 60 years, I have been looking through cameras, creating images, editing films, telling stories and searching for that special moment when technology, emotion and imagination come together. My journey began when I was ten years old. While others were playing, I discovered the world through the lens. Later came Normal 8, Super 8, many metres of celluloid, my own edits, early experiments and eventually the digital revolution. I learnt filmmaking on real film before computers, digital editing systems and artificial intelligence fundamentally changed creative work. In 2003 and 2004, my passion for film and visual storytelling led me to the New York Film Academy in the heart of Hollywood. There, I deepened my craft with the classic tools of film history – from the Arriflex 16mm to the Panavision Gold 35mm. Training in directing, cinematography, acting, editing and production still forms an important foundation of my work today.

At the same time, I can look back on more than 45 years of experience in the IT industry. For me, technology is not an obstacle, but a creative toolbox. Today, I combine this knowledge with modern animation, digital characters, Reallusion software, AI-supported voices, languages and production methods. Yet one thing remains essential to me: technology may help, but it must never replace the soul of a story. For more than 15 years, I have been working intensively on digital and animated worlds. I deliberately do not film my science fiction stories as photorealistic copies of reality, but with the visual charm of stylised characters. I do not want perfect clones. I want characters with character. For me, this is exactly where the freedom of independent filmmaking begins.

I am currently working on the cinematic adaptation of my first science fiction book. Each scene of around 60 seconds often requires two to three days of work on avatars, dialogue, movement, lighting, effects and atmosphere. Yet it is precisely in this detailed work that I find the greatest creative joy. I am no longer chasing Hollywood budgets. I want to tell my stories independently – with the experience of a lifetime and with the curiosity of someone who still wants to know what lies beyond the next image. My film and music website presents clips, experiments, articles, soundtrack reflections and insights into this visual work. But behind the images, there is always the author as well: my films, animations and music themes are closely connected to my novels, science fiction worlds, thrillers and visions of the future.