Musician and VJ Lorenzo Francesconi1, who had filmed Glühende Rätsel, put me in touch with Marco Zaccaria sometime in the first half of 2018. Marco and his wife Roberta Chimera run The Visual House, an Italian film school in Berlin (where nothing is much of a surprise). They were embarking on a pilot for a webseries with the dual purpose of providing their students with the professional filmmaking experience and, well, actually producing it, should it be picked up.
The series is titled Generation Berlin, and follows the exploits of four people living in a Berlin WG (Wohnungsgemeinschaft, i.e. flatshare) from the perspective of one of them, a filmmaker, and combines narrative sequences with interviews by the filmmaker (played, incidentally, by Lorenzo).
I was cast as Alan, a software engineer/lothario (cf. Berlin, above), and filmed a few scenes accordingly over the summers of 2018 and 2019. It was a lot of fun to work with The Visual House, who seemed to perfectly balance professionalism with warmth, and managed some truly impressive camerawork to boot. As of the time of this writing, the pilot is currently in postproduction, and I wish the team the best of luck in finding a home for further production! In any case, I have little doubt that what they put together will be beautiful in its own right.