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17.11.2011
When did you decide to become a filmmaker? AnderthalbThat was no decision made on a particular day. I always had the urge to be creative and artistic. I grew up without any TV, but as long as I can remember I always went to the cinema. At my first jobs in film and then at my first directing
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16.11.2011
How and when did you decide to become a filmmaker? That's nothing I decided but rather something I remembered. When I was very little I used to tell my mother fictional stories with pictures all the time. Sometimes the front of houses would seem like faces to me and scare me. I used to
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15.11.2011
It all starts with the fundamental nightmare: The little boy Robin is abused and severely traumatized in the children's home, where he spent some time until his parents seem fit to take care of him again. RobinThe whole twenty minutes of social decay, neglect, anger and depressions that
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11.11.2011
When did you decide to become a filmmaker? I wanted to be a director since I was 15 years old. First it was theatre, then I quickly changed to film. Why? Because I have a tendency for self-promotion without being more than a mediocre actor. So I would settle on commanding other people around
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11.11.2011
How and when did you decide to became a filmmaker? That was a subtle process. In my early twenties I started working in different functions on film productions in Germany and Europe. I instantly knew that this was were I belonged, but at this time I still had too much respect for the position
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08.11.2011
How and when did you decide to become a filmmaker? Principally I wanted to be a filmmaker from very early on. I always liked film and design, everything that's visual. After school I went to Berlin to work at a film production company for a year. I was determined to go to film school to
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08.11.2011
ABSOLUTION, written and directed by Markus Sehr, whose graduation this film this was, is one of those impenetrable, perfectly composed examples of filmmaking: Every angle is chosen with the utmost care, which makes everyday images look like melancholy paintings. You want to freeze-frame every
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08.11.2011
When did you decide to become a filmmaker? I always wanted to write for a living, especially screenplays. But then I studied for a master without ever graduating and instead became writer for an ad agency in Hamburg. It hung around several film sets for this agency, thinking: “I can do
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03.11.2011
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) was founded in 1990. Since then it has offered an educational concept, unique within Germany, which brings film, art and science together in one degree course: “Media and Fine Art” (since summer 2011, before this called “Audiovisual Media
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03.11.2011
The ifs internationale filmschule köln is an initiative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the regional film fund Film- und Medienstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen. It was founded as a non-profit limited liability company and its current partners are the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and
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