Build a Sturdy Workbench in Two Days with Christopher Schwarz 2013

Join Christopher Schwarz for a woodworking tutorial and learn how to build a workbench in two days. With a base built from standard 4×4 lumber, a base with half-lap construction, and a top made from two IKEA countertops, the demonstrated design is a seriously sturdy bench that no one will question for quality. Once the workbench construction is complete, you’ll have no shortage of working surface or dog holes.

A Traditional Tool Chest in Two Days 2013

Woodworkers who use traditional tool chests swear they're the most convenient way to organize tools for work in their shops or offsite. Now, Christopher Schwarz has designed a chest you can make in just two days using modern materials and contemporary joinery techniques. Whether your focus is hand tool or power tool woodworking, you'll find this tool chest indispensable.

Inside the Anarchist's Tool Chest 2011

After writing “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” in 2011 people kept asking what specific tools are in Christopher Schwarz's tool chest? What follows is a one-hour tour of the tools in his chest on a summer day in 2011.

Piggy Bank 2024

Filmmaker Christoph Schwarz is broke. Fortunately, he gets an offer from ORF. But does Schwarz really want to document his self-experiment as an environmental activist? Wouldn’t it be better to reorient the longterm experiment into a critique of capitalism and secretly buy the desired weekend house with the film budget? A self-mocking film about double standards, which playfully and humorously shows that the problems you clear away, are often smaller than the new ones that you thereby create.

Employees Meeting 2015

Christoph Schwarz is a fictitious artist, impersonated by the intrapersonal working group ARGE Schwarz, consisting of: Daniel Bleninger (organization/public relations), Blacky Palermo (representation), Christian Schwab (production), Kiki Panini (recreation/inspiration). In Employees Meeting, these four sub-characters discuss the benefits of this company structure in a relaxed studio atmosphere - and the last time they had to be ashamed of the work of another department.

Schlaflos 2006