Eli Börnicke // Cinematography //

where you find me

2024 narrative feature
Production: ifs Köln
Directors: Isis Victoria Rampf, Juan Bermùdez, Willi Reinecke, Anna-Katharina Schröder
Cinematography: Eli Börnicke

SYNOPSIS
Isabelle Krieger and Thea Ehre command the screen in this nuanced drama about bodily autonomy. Through masterfully interwoven narratives, we follow Beatrice, a doctor seeking escape in Berlin’s club scene, and Alex, a defiant club manager juggling parenthood and protest. Their unexpected friendship evolves beyond cliché into a powerful meditation on freedom and self-determination.

FESTIVALS
BFI Flare London

drifter

2023 narrative feature
Director: Hannes Hirsch
Production: Hannes Hirsch & Hering Films & Salzgeber
Cinematography: Eli Börnicke

SYNOPSIS
The young Moritz follows his boyfriend Jonas to Berlin only to be abandoned by him within a few weeks. For a while he finds security with the older Noah, but then moves on. He changes his looks and dives into the city’s vibrating techno world. He learns to express his repressed desires, but he also starts to lose himself in drugs and emotional alienation. With the help of his queer friends, Moritz develops his own ideas of sexuality and masculinity, leading him a little closer to himself.
The 22-year-old embarks on a journey filled with kinks, metamorphoses and self-discovery into the depths of Berlin's party scene.

FESTIVALS
Berlinale Panorama / BFI Flare London / Pink Apple Zürich / Frameline Festival San Francisco/ Palm Springs /
Winner Best Featture Film at First Steps Award. 2023
Nomination for German Film Critics Award

https://salzgeber.de/drifter

Quiver

2022  
middle-length fiction  
Director: Berglind Thrastardottir
Production: Elisabeth Köller / dffb     
Cinematography: Eli Börnicke

research experiment for

Zutiefst Unten

2021/ short fiction/ In Post-Production
Concept and Cinematography: Eli Börnicke/ dffb

16mm /  krasnogorsk + bolex camera

Recordari

2024
Stop-motion animation, short
Director: Carolina Cruz
Production: Nicolai C.J.Otteni & Paul Lux, Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf
Vertrieb: Magnetfilm GmbH
Cinematography: Eli Börnicke, Jana Pape

SYNOPSIS
Santiago de Chile en 1980. Camila y Paula tienen 7 años, son vecinas y mejores amigas. Fuera de sus casas, su vida y la de sus familias está determinada por la dictadura militar de Pinochet: una disciplina férrea, toques de queda, violencia y la opresión del régimen. Tras una noche de protesta pacífica y emocionante, las dos amigas están destinadas a seguir por caminos distintos…

FESTIVALS
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart 2024 (Lobende Erwähnung) / Sharjah International Film Festival (Best Student Made Film) / AG Kurzfilm / Animateka / SCHLiNGEL / Anibar

www.magnetfilm.de/recordari

Ein Bisschen Gemurmel aus dem Wald (AT)

2023  
short fiction / in Post-Production    
Director: Julia von dem Berge
Production: Felice Kaufmann, Cătălina Bucos / KHM
Cinematography: Eli Börnicke

ablaze

2020 / short fiction
Director: Sverre Aune / Cinematography: Eli Börnicke / Production: Charlotte Kennel / dffb
shot on 16mm // ARRI SR3

SYNOPSIS
Ablaze is a 15 minute drama film about a woman’s confrontation with her own family biography. During her own mothers funeral, Lucia, a blind woman in her early 30s, breaks into her childhood home, searching for some way to confront her past. As she searches the house, memories start awaking, taking her deeper and deeper down memory lane - a road leading to only one logical and violent conclusion…

FESTIVALS
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck/ Filmfest Dresden/ Kurzfilmfestival Köln/ SHORTS Offenburg/ Amandus Blikkfang (Norway)/ Minimalen Norway

holy water

2022 video essay
Concept: Eva Lochner / Cinematography: Eli Börnicke

http://evalochner.com/arbeiten/

open studios /
akademie der künste

2020-2021  Short Video Portfolios    für JUNGE AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE / Open Studios   Concept: Julia Milz & Eli Börnicke / Cinematography: Eli Börnicke

https://www.adk.de/de/programm/?we_objectID=62450

https://junge-akademie.adk.de/en/articles/digital-studio-visit/

die alchemie der wolken

2021 video  installation  
Directors: Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani 
A Camera: Katharina Hauke / B Camera: Eli Börnicke    

https://www.fischerelsani.net/film/installations/die-alchemie-der-wolken-art-activism-and-splitting-communites