european short films - documentary, set 2
The Photographer’s Wife
Gerti Gerbert was her husband Eugen’s favorite photo model for more than forty years. The assembled photographs are the candid chronicle of a life. We see Gerti on the beach, doing household chores, in the couple’s car, in a forest, but also in more private moments, in her underwear, naked. The Photographer’s Wife is a collection of memories from a couple’s loving life.
Philip Widmann
Director Philip Widmann was born in Berlin in 1980. In Hamburg, he studied cultural anthropology and visual communication, specializing in documentary film. Since 2009, he is a member of LaborBerlin e.V., an artist-run, independent and nonprofit film collective.
2008 Destination Finale (short, doc.)
2011 Żona fotografa / Die Frau des Fotografen / The Photographer’s Wife (co-dir., short, doc.)
Karsten Krause
Director Karsten Krause was born in Freiburg, Germany in 1980. He graduated in visual communication from the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, the city where lives and works today.
2007 A Fundamental Right (short, doc.)
2008 Die Zeit, die es braucht (short, doc.)
2009 Ty i ja / You and Me (short, doc.)
2011 Żona fotografa / Die Frau des Fotografen / The Photographer’s Wife (co-dir., short, doc.)
We Lived our Ordinary Lives
How does one transform during war? In het film childhood memories of the siege of Sarajevo are combined with excerpts from guilty pleas from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In 2012 it is exactly 20 years ago the siege of Sarajevo began.
Daya Cahen
Filmmaker, video artist, and photographer Daya Cahen was born in Amsterdam in 1969. She studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the same city. The main themes of her work are propaganda, indoctrination and the manipulation of mass media. Cahen explores the iconography and symbolism of power and politics, as well as the roles of the crowd and the individual. She exposes links between politics and everyday individual lives, using archival and contemporary footage, often blurring the boundary between fact and fiction.
2006 The Stalin That Was Played By Me (short, doc.)
2008 Nashi (short, doc.)
2010 Narodziny narodu / Birth of a Nation (short, video)
2012 Żyliśmy naszym codziennym życiem / We Lived Our Ordinary Lives (short, doc.)
PFFFHP TT!
Red light. Two cars. So I hit the brakes – PFFFHP TT! And can’t get up, can’t move…
Deborah S. Phillips
German director Deborah S. Phillips is also an installation and performance artist. Her works have reached international audiences, including at the Toronto IFF.
2003 Noor (short)
2005 Run, Don’t Walk (short)
2006 Fontanester (short)
2012 iiiii (short)
2012 PFFFHP TT! (short, doc.)
Hannes: About Papas and Power Rangers
Kindergarten life isn’t all fun and games. Director Daniel Abma’s film follows five-year-old Hannes to show the rest of us who have forgotten just how difficult things can be when you’re small. Even in kindergarten, children must learn to face conflicts, though they often don’t know how best to go about it.
Daniel Abma
Director Daniel Abma was born in Westerbork, the Netherlands in 1978. He is a recent graduate of the Konrad Wolf Film and Television University in Potsdam. He currently lives in Berlin.
2008 Das erste Weihnachten in der eigenen Wohnung (short)
2009 Zwischenspiel (short, doc.)
2010 Lothar Erdmann (short, doc.)
2011 Offiziell Inoffiziell (short, doc.)
2011 Truthahn und Diamanten / Turkeys and Diamonds (short)
2011 Hannes: o tatusiach i Power Rangersach / Hannes – Von Papas und Power Ranger / Hannes: About Papas and Power Rangers (short, doc.)
Daughters
Director Marta Jurkiewicz offers a poignant portrait of her mother as she grieves for her own mother, the director’s grandmother. A chronicle of blind anger at the ruthlessness of fate, but also of unconditional love for the woman whom her mother nursed in the last years of life, repaying, at least in part, the daughter’s debt of devotion. Jurkiewicz opens her camera and the door of her mother’s home onto painfully intimate moments of loss.
Marta Jurkiewicz
Marta Jurkiewicz (1982, Poland) is an Amsterdam based artist and filmmaker. She studied Audiovisual Media at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated from in 2005. She has recently completed her second study as a documentary director from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. For the last couple of years she has also been working as a festival distributor of Dutch experimental films at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
2005 Agatha (short)
2006 Calypso Road (short)
2011 Córki / Dochters / Daughters (short, doc.)