THE FILMMAKER 
Hannes Stimmann grew up in Berlin. In 2009 he graduated with his thesis dealing with Temporary Spaces in Berlin: A film Luna Park and a theoretical work Out of Order and was awarded with the Max Taut Award (honorable mention) for this work. In Hamburg, he graduated in 2014 with his thesis about Mobility, Non-Places & Temporary Homes: The film Off the Grid, shifting between a documentary, a road-movie and a staged and improvised film about people who decided to live outside the system in their mobile homes. In 2014 he co-founded the film cooperation splitter film. Since 2012 he has been working as a freelance DoP, Producer and Director and part time lecturer at the University of Fine Arts of Berlin (UdK). 

THE RESIDENCY
At BAR,  Stimmann worked on his latest project: Towers of Beirut, a work about Beirut’s contradicting spaces, filmed and created during the residency, based and started on an urban research trip in 2012. The concept was to create images interwoven with sounds, underlining or contradicting the image. A visual journey, which questions and contextualises the boundaries of Beirut’s architectural and cultural fabric. During the Residency his focus shifted to the new and omnipresent high rise buildings which are popping up like gigantic mushrooms all over the city and weren’t as present in 2012. To Stimmann, they were closely linked to the “World Wide Real Estate Market” and national political structures, which affect the local neighborhoods and the people within. Towers of Beirut takes roots in its history, standing tall but unfulfilled in the present and rise up to the unclear future of the city.