A graduate of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where he received the Friedrich-Vordemberge Visual Art Prize of the City of Cologne in 2004. His films include The Roof (2006) and Port of Memory (2009), which received the Prix de l’Instititut français-Louis Marcorelles at Cinema du Réel, Paris. He was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York, and in 2009-2010 was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center. His most recent film is Recollections (2015).