Deborah S. Phillips Movies

Ruminations about the color red.

Close-up cinema in London asked people who have shown films there in the last years whether they wanted to make a short film for their anniversary....

It's too complicated to answer, when people ask where I'm from. Blotches of colour on film are my continents, my home. (DSP)

As a printmaker, the effect of sequences of prints & details thereof always seem to want to be filmed…

The idea: swapped rolls of 16mm film with an artist colleague & shot multiple exposures of other colleagues clinking glasses against a black...

Fragments and impressions of urban debris come alive through playful stop-motion and superimpositions. Scraps, ribbons, caps, paper, plastic, cans...

A path doesn't always go straight - everything has to go around corners....

Part 1 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

Reflections on the joy of being able to use a large studio to paint & to be able to film as well for a short time. Filmed in Kunstquartier Bethanien,...

Completed in 2024. 40 sec, Super 8

«71» is guided by impressions and feelings of an artist during shooting: a feeling of absurdity that comes when one travels to the back...

For decades, I've been walking up & down this road, usually starting at the centre of the universe, Hermannplatz, heading north to Bethanien or the...

when an artist has to improvise... she finds something green in it

Part 4 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

My mother, Carol Frieda Herman P. Hirsch, Chaya bas Moshe ve Yehudit, died on June 23, 2022, at home, the way she wanted her last weeks to be....

This film explores the handing over of objects from one hand to another. Each version of the film was developed differently. This one is the number...

A short film by Deborah S. Phillips.

After 13 years of artistic research into the 3 colours of light (which started with CAPSICUM), this film (also made a handmade book) looks into the...

My (former) neighbour, Samer is a trained translator & interpreter between Arabic and Chinese & would like to work as such. A visual exploration of...

Deborah S. Phillips Super 8, stumm, 2005 2:30 min.