Portfolio Video 1
Periphery (2025) Director / Editor: Florian Sachisthal
Work in progress
This is an excerpt of discarded and/or faulty video footage from several porno shoots I was hired to edit, peripheral moments when the DP didn't switch of the camera and just kept shooting incidental material, as well as a sample of collected sounds, shifting away from the visuals and focussing only on the peripheral audio during a porno shoot, the directions from the crew, the performers sounds...
The score I composed myself and I will expand it for the full 10 minute short.
Portfolio Video 2
In my late 20's I saw an ad for a porn audio and I decided to go and record the experience. I still have the 11 page diary entry and some of the text is...
... the actual dialogue of the audition, which is re-enacted here in an excerpt of a feature film I directed (and acted in) 20 years ago, called
Art & Sex. Part of the movie will be featured in Periphery.
Portfolio Video 3
Doppelt Anders - feature documentary (1 Minute excerpt)
Director / Editor: Florian Sachisthal
DP: Jutta Tränkle
The film "Double Different – Queer Hannover" portrays five people from Hannover - old and young - who have both a migration background and a homosexual identity. They tell their personal, lived stories, addressing experiences of discrimination and acceptance in their everyday lives. (The film was recently screened again in January 2025 as part of the Hannover Film Queer Nights.)
Addendum:
There are also 36 short stories (for a lack of a better word), each in one way or another connected to sexuality, early fascination with pornography by the age of 12, becoming involved in the porn business, working as an escort etc. These stories currently each exist as a 1-page text in tandem with one or more images. Some will end up as part of the film, read by a female VO (who is already cast) accompanied by footage I've shot over the past 25 years. Below is a sample:
I kept the pendant as a talisman and wore it on several porn shoots. I also gave it to various actresses in some of the films I've directed, since each of the characters I wrote for them was connected to me or a part of myself.
