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Ilja KaganInterview Formats

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Services

Four formats,
one modular system

Every project is modular: commission a single interview episode, a series with an educational module, or a complete commissioned film. Every calculation is transparent — and on request structured to fit funding applications.

Testimony and interview series for exhibitions

The flagship of this line — as produced for Villa Merländer (Krefeld) and the Jewish Museum Westphalia (Dorsten).

Included

Pre-meeting (on request also with the interviewees) · research and participant selection on request · interview guidance in sensitive contexts · broadcast-quality production (directing, camera, sound in one hand) · edit, grading, subtitles · documentation with rights note per person · documented archive handover

For whom

Museums, memorial sites, NS documentation centres, archives. Also for long-running exhibition stations — and as post-production of existing oral history collections. Calculated module by module, funding-ready on request.

Educational formats for schools and adult education

Modules

Conversation-film series for the classroom (upper secondary to adult education) · teaching material as a module to every series · teacher and museum-educator training · student workshops: interview and tell stories themselves

Funding connection

Educational formats can be financed via memorial-trip and school-programme funding (NRW) as well as EVZ and federal programme grants. I provide calculation blocks you can insert directly into applications.

Commissioned documentaries

Included

Concept with authority and press-office coordination · archive and rights research · interview structure as the film's backbone · production and post-production · premiere-ready version with subtitles · handover including documentation package. Produced in 4K; up to 8K on request.

For whom

Parliaments, ministries, municipalities, foundations, churches, associations. Calculated per project after the first conversation.

Portrait series

Included

Half or full production day · portrait series on location or in studio · same-day selection · retouching and delivery in web and print formats · rights note per person

For whom

Organisations, communities, annual reports, exhibition brochures, portrait walls. Calculated by scope.

Screening and discussion formats

Included

Film screening · moderated audience conversation · participation of the portrayed on request (subject to availability and consent) · on-site technology in one hand. Also suited to interfaith conversation series.

For whom

Memorial sites, adult education centres, community halls, conferences, interfaith initiatives.

Which format fits your plan?

Describe your plan in two sentences — you will receive an honest assessment, usually within two working days.