Films
From anarchy-rock to cypress avenues
Our Voice
Our Voice tells the story of a fascinating tool: Our Voice. The film takes you to a journey into your own body, to laboratories, concert halls and recording studios.
We can see and hear some famous singers like David Bowie and the traditional Thomaner Choir from Leipzig.
The 30 Minutes Documentation was realized for the science program hitec of 3sat in cooperation with my brother Thomas Schuch (Picture and Production) and the conductor Thomas Hanelt (Screenplay).
Director: Christoph Schuch
Script: Thomas Hanelt, Co-Author: Christoph Schuch
Camera: Thomas Schuch
Sound: Roby Güver, Mounir Daoubi
Editing: Petra Bereuter
Animation: Upstart! Media, Andrei Kramer
Production: giacomo-film, www.giacomo-film.de
Commissioning Editor: Catrin Powell zdf,3sat
Big bang in Tunguska
At 07.17 a.m. on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history reverberated round the planet. The force of the explosion was two thousand times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb. A woodland area the size of Luxemburg was destroyed in the Siberian taiga.
But: There was´nt any crater. So this documentary reveals the latest and most controversial theories from Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany. Science meets Monty Python, Adventure meets Poetry.
50 Minutes
Script: Ute Mügge-Lauterbach and Christoph Schuch
Director: Christoph Schuch
Supported by Christopher Zahlten
Camera: Philip Flämig
Sound: Hans Warth
Editing: Stefan Heintzenberg
Music: Georg Reichelt
Special Effects: Upstart! Media
Production: Halbtotal Film Andrzej Klamt & his Team, www.halbtotalfilm.de
Editorial Staff: Catrin Powell
Scientific Advisor: Christoph Brenneisen
Narrator: Andrew Solomon
Self-Made Paradise
84 Min.
Finnish with English or German subtitles
Script and Direction: Christoph Schuch
Camera: Marcus Lenz
Sound: Peter Carstens
Editing: Eva Voosen
Music: Georg Reichelt + Alexander Sonntag
Production: Avanti-Film
Supported by the „Hessischen Filmförderung“ and the „Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen“
2007
Spiritual Feasts
This is the quest that Christoph Schuch and co-author Susanne Binninger undertake.
The pilot for the ARTE-Series „European Faces“ tells the story of Manuel Cerdan and his horse pilgrimage in the religious and geographical heart of Spain.
Camera: Marcus Lenz
Sound: Peter Carstens
Editing: Heike Müller
Musik: Stefan Varga
Production: U 5 Filmproduktion
Commissioning Editor: Ann-Kathrin Hornberger
2006
Constructions of the past –
Camera: Uli Fischer
Steadycam: Richard Kubisch
Editing: Andrea Stabenow
Commisisoning Editor: Christiane Hinz
2005
Gardens in the Rhine Valley
Togeher with his brother Thomas (Camera) Christoph Schuch presents a collection of the most beautiful gardens along the river Rhine of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. A sunny mixture of historical and contemporary gardens, nice markets and art projects. This film for SWR Mainz is part of an international series of eight pieces.
Editing: Stefan Heinzenberg
Music: Georg Reichelt
Comissioning Editor: Achim Streit
Production Company: Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction
2005
The Dream is Gone
The rock band TON STEINE SCHERBEN and their fans dreamt of a classless society.
What is left of those dreams and the "68 generation" ideals?
How do rock or hip hop bands with a critical view work in the Germany of today?
Book & production: Christoph Schuch, camera: Thomas Schuch, sound: Jörg Möbus, Philip Gnadt, editing: Christoph Schuch, Sven Ritzkowski.
35 mm, 92 minutes, 2001
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21st Century Garden Art
The garden is the interface between culture and nature. For centuries gardens have bred a plethora of secrets and stories. They have a variety of functions and associations. What is the role of the garden in a rapidly transforming society at the beginning of the 21st century? As author and director, Christoph Schuch, together with Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction (Wiesbaden), portrays pioneering contemporary garden designers & garden artists for the German-French television channel Arte.
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Namibia - Return to a New Country
Accompanies young Namibian girls of nursery school age through different cultures. After a war refugee stay in the GDR, they found an Ossiclub in Windhoek.
Book: Thomas and Christoph Schuch, camera: Janne Busse, music: Stefan Varga.
16 mm, 85 minutes, 1997
PASSION
Paints a portrait of the farmer Frank Kranz, who flees urban insularity to immerse himself in the glittery worlds of fashion and chanson in a variety of different cities throughout the world.
Camera: Janne Busse, music: Rachel Morrison.
35mm, black and white,15 minutes, 1996
The Reading King
Paints a portrait over several months of a campaign to promote reading. At the end one of the participant school pupils is crowned as the reading king.
Camera: Christoph Schuch.
Video, 32 minutes, 1995
Shadow of the Forest
Tells the story of the largest European primeval forest, the Puszca Bialowieza, on the border between Poland and White Russia in poetic pictures. The story stands for the moving history of Poland.
Camera: Andreas Giesecke, musik: Stefan Varga.
16mm, 28 minutes, 1994
Images of Death
Deals with the motif of death in modern art. The Frankfurt am Main Museum for Modern Art collection provides the focus for this meticulously-shot, very compact film about the work of Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter and Arnulf Reiner.
Camera: Uli Andreé, music: Einstürzende Neubauten, etc.
Beta SP, 47 minutes, 1992
Jean-Christophe Amman: This film preoccupied us long after it was over. Image, spoken word, music, running texts are so sensitive and vividly tuned that in retrospect we only remembered the effect the images of death triggered off in us.
Heart Matters
Is a short film about women who have been left by pop stars. A tragicomic subject in black and white.
With Gaby Krier, Michaela Hofmann and Michael Chauvistré. Camera: Christoph Schuch.
16mm, 10 minutes, 1991