Deborah S. Phillips Movies

The adventure of Melissa and Gustavo starts aboard a red cargo ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It takes them from Brazil to Berlin, a city of...

During the pandemic, I shot single frame 16mm material dealing with the dialectic between wanted to be left alone and spending time with people. The...

In "Mosaïc", the Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs are based on images, drawings and photographs of intercultural places:...

Red light. Two cars. So I hit the brakes- PFFFHP TT! And can’t get up, can’t move… Acoustic collage: Ruth Wiesenfeld. (DSP)

Long ago in ancient Persia, Esther saved the Jews there from a massacre: Beauty and Justice prevail. 2 floating worlds - blue and red, and earth...

Completed in 2024. 40 sec, Super 8

There is such a variety of places where you can find water in Berlin: sometimes, you feel like you are in the countryside, other times, it is...

A film-portrait, made by the window, of the eponymous street in Berlin. Complemented with a live sound performance by the author.

Although this part of Neukölln (a district in Berlin) has a reputation as a dangerous place, I see it, through golden late summer light, as an...

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...

The reflections in this complex, where I was treated by an osteopath, as well as how people moved therein, fascinated me… (DSP)

A third of a film-book-installation project. Three times fallen, three times restarted, three legs, three ends. The story of Jewish immigration.

Loosely based on Lewis Caroll's Through the looking glass, BREAD is a series of metamorphoses. We pass through a table into a world of strange...

This is composition reacting to a whinging zeitgeist, threatened with the possibility of war. A still-life in time, a means of having hope. The Allam...

A 35 mm. experimental film.

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

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....

Ruminations about the color red.

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

After a tough time, a little bit of lightness is called for itself. A search for beauty in the world around me. (Deborah S. Phillips)