This may well be the most important copy I've written in my life so far. It might also be the one I've been writing for the longest time. Every since I met the amazing Martina Trepczyk, these words started taking shape in my head. Fast forward many beautiful months, and Martina asks me to come up with a voice-over and concept for the portrait of her work as a filmmaker, with a deadline of about 90 minutes. The portrait was supposed to be celebrating her work as director, cinematographer, feminist, artist, and above all human to become the ambassador for the world's most amazing camera brand—Leica—new model SL3-S.
Well, fortunately, I had already started writing it in my head over a year ago. What then conspired was a beautifully chaotic and sometimes quite challenging "production" (with our dog Anton bombarding us with nuclear-threat-level-farts at 02.00 am while I'm panning the light to create light effects ...) that led to the most fitting celebration of the work that Martina puts all her soul, passion, nights, days and sometimes tears into. Needless to say that I am forever in awe of her talent, dedication and genius. And that I'm grateful to have played a minor part in the production of this video, which is major in every aspect. If you want to read about Martina, you can do so here. Or if you'd like to work with her, you can contact her here.
Spoiler alert: She's amazing to work with. 

Excerpt
The film does not give us an image that it then sets in motion.
The film gives us an immediate movement-image.
The film contracts a multitude of moments into one.
The film creates. It becomes not a medium, but a reality.

The camera, then, is the facilitator of reality.
She captures movement and stillness made possible by movement.
The camera does not capture the past for the present.

The camera gives birth to a past.
A past we can imagine like an ocean.
But this ocean of reality?
It does not belong to everyone.
Everyone belongs to it.