Ulrich Seidl, born 1952, lives in Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Seidl is the director of numerous award-winning documentaries such as Jesus du weißt (Jesus, You Know), Models and Tierische Liebe (Animal Love). Werner Herzog named Ulrich Seidl one of his ten favorite filmmakers and said about his film Animal Love: "Never before in cinema have I been able to look straight into hell." His first fiction feature Dog Days won the Special Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. Import Export, the first film he also produced, premiered in competition in Cannes in 2007. Currently he is working on two new projects − Paradise, a fiction feature and In the Basement, a documentary feature.
Selected filmography:
1980 Einsvierzig
1982 Der Ball
1984 Look 84
1990 Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wierern
1992 Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen / Loss Is to Be Expected
1994 Die Letzten Männer / The Last Real Man
1995 Tierische Liebe / Animal Love
1998 Spass Ohne Grenzen
1999 Models
2001 Upały / Hundstage / Dog Days
2002 Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln / State of Nation: Austria in Six Chapters
2003 Jesus, Du weisst / Jesus, You Know
2006 Import Export
2006 Brothers, Let Us be Merry