RAFAEL STARMAN

director of photgraphy

for commercials and feature films

VOR DEM ANFANG (AT) — directed by Milena Aboyan & Constantin Hatz

2024 • feature film • 110 min.

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In a suburban setting marked by faded greenery and looming concrete walls on the city's outskirts, a young student is trapped by her obsessive thoughts. She can only exist through strictly defined rituals that dominate her daily life. Raised by a domineering mother and grandmother, she feels tormented by her native environment. Within the prison of her memories, she attempts a desperate bid for freedom, leading her to confront her dependency on her mother for the first time.

GEWALTEN — directed by Constantin Hatz

2022 • feature film • 148 min.

In a dying village, a lonely boy tries to enter the spring of his life but becomes a victim of inhumane conditions amidst the emotional coldness of his surroundings. Thirteen-year-old Daniel lives with his older brother and terminally ill father in a village plagued by rural depopulation. The young people there navigate their lives between infrequent bus services, xenophobia, unemployment, illegal dog fights, and chemical intoxicants. Caught between childhood and adolescence, Daniel, faced with the indifferent lovelessness and stagnation around him, becomes a victim of inhumane conditions that force him into a painful solitude.

ENDJÄHRIG — directed by Willi Kubica

2020 • feature film • 72 min.

When the so-called terminal age - compulsory euthanasia on reaching the age of 80 - is introduced in Germany, a father and son are forced to put their broken relationship to a final test.

PETA "MEN OF THE STONEAGE" — directed by Tarek Roehlinger

2018 • commercial • 1 min.

STAMMTISCH — directed by Constantin Hatz

2018 • documentary • 95 min.

The film tells stories of animals, physicality, the pleasure of suffering pain, weapons, politics, traditions and the spooky. Like the pieces of a mosaic, one regulars' table differs from another. Only when you look at the finished mosaic picture do you recognise a closed world.

BALLANTINE’S - "KNIGHTS" — directed by Thilo Gundelach

2018 • commercial • 1 min.

BRUT — directed by Constantin Hatz

2017 • feature film • 123 min.

For prospective medical student Marie, the catastrophe begins every morning when she gets up. She lives in social isolation with her strictly dominant mother, a successful gynaecologist. Marie has suffered from her mother's emotional blackmail all her life and it is almost as if the umbilical cord had never been cut. Marie finally wants to free herself from this dependency and seeks sexual contact with men for the first time in order to force her mother into resignation. A power struggle begins between mother and daughter under the guise of love.

FUGE — directed by Constantin Hatz

2015 • feature film • 79 min.

In a suburban setting marked by faded greenery and looming concrete walls on the city's outskirts, a young student is trapped by her obsessive thoughts. She can only exist through strictly defined rituals that dominate her daily life. Raised by a domineering mother and grandmother, she feels tormented by her native environment. Within the prison of her memories, she attempts a desperate bid for freedom, leading her to confront her dependency on her mother for the first time.

Rafael Starman
Director of Photgraphy & Cinematographer