During the museum’s move from the Dahlem district to the tourist area of Berlin-Mitte, the owner of the Samurai Museum in Berlin, Peter Janssen, commissioned me to document the relocation on film.
The result was a series of marketing films that, among other things, show the construction of an original historical Noh theater — dismantled in Japan, shipped to Germany, and reassembled in Berlin-Mitte by Japanese master craftsmen.
For the projections onto this museum Noh theater, the taiko drumming group “Masa Daiko” was filmed in a green screen studio in Bremen.
I fondly remember the shooting days, which began early in the morning and regularly paused around midday,
as the masters always took time for a lunch break.
After exactly 30 minutes, work would resume.
