Alexander Schukoff
Alexander Schukoff (born August 23, 1956 in Graz ) is an Austrian film director , film producer and video artist .
Life
Alexander Schukoff studied directing at Axel Corti and screenplay at Harald Zusanek at the Film Academy in Vienna and graduated in 1980 from. He worked as a director for various television channels such as ORF , 3sat , BR-alpha and Fashion TV .
In 1981 he developed and produced the MO Music Show for ORF , in which musicians such as Wolfgang Ambros , Falco and Rainhard Fendrich performed. In the music show broadcast in 1982 , Schukoff was already working with short film scenes, as they later became characteristic of music videos and video clips . In 1982 he participated together with Kuno Knöbl and Peter Zurek as part of the OTS ( Orbital Test Satellite ) project of the European Broadcasting Union in the development of a German-language cultural television program for distribution via satellite , which later became the public television program 3sat.
In 1986 he founded the film production company Alexander Schukoff-Film , based in Vienna. Since then, Schukoff has directed and produced documentaries , video clips and short films for television , public institutions, industry and business. The company or Alexander Schukoff is a member of the Association of the Music and Film Industry (FAMA).
As a media artist, he has so far created several video installations in public spaces, such as a live video performance in 2003 in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Ingeborg Bachmann's death entitled I don't know a better world .
Since 2006, the TV documentaries Russia in Vienna (on behalf of 3sat, Alpha Austria and ORF), Kaffee Express (on behalf of Alpha Austria and BR-alpha ) and Die Wiener have been created in collaboration with the Russian TV journalist and author Nadeschda Tschistjakowa Semmel - a small cultural history (on behalf of ORF). In addition to the television program of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), these documentaries have meanwhile also been broadcast on 3sat, BR-alpha and international television stations.
Alexander Schukoff has been married to Nadezhda Tschistjakowa since 2007. The couple has one child and lives in Vienna.
Filmography and video installations (selection)
- 1978: Simmering , short documentary film (with: Reinhard Kofler)
- 1981: MO Music Show , TV music show
- 1983: History of the SPD , documentary film and multimedia show for the SPD party conference 1983 in Dortmund
- 2003: I don't know a better world , live video performance
- 2005: superstars. From Warhol to Madonna , video installation in the Kunsthalle Wien
- 2006: A village sings , video performance
- 2006: Russia in Vienna , short film
- 2008: Kaffee Express , short film
- 2010: The Wiener Semmel - a short cultural history , TV documentary
- 2015: Wiener Schmankerl , five-part TV documentary series on 3sat
- 2017: The goldsmiths of the Habsburgs, TV documentary
- 2017: The Sound of Vienna, TV documentary
- 2018: How does the sea come to Vienna, TV documentary about research projects in the Vienna House of the Sea
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography for Alexander Schukoff in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), English, accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ a b Information about Alexander Schukoff in the IMDb , accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ Alexander Schukoff-Film at the Association of the Film and Music Industry (FAMA), accessed on June 22, 2018.
- ↑ Andreas Krištof (Red.): Super artist - MAK Knite / MAK Art Society . MAK Art Society, Austrian Museum for Applied Art , Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-900688-63-X .
- ↑ a b Artists → Alexander Schukoff-Film In: i: b Literature Association for the Promotion of the Understanding of Work and Art Ingeborg Bachmann , accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ Biography for Nadeschda Tschistjakowa in the IMDb , English, accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ Alexander Schukoff - Filmografija. Croatian TV magazine, accessed December 19, 2018 (Croatian).
- ↑ SRF: It's about the sausage! To be more precise: Viennese, Frankfurter & hot dogs. In: program twitter from Swiss television. April 22, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
- ^ Simmering ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Brief description and technical information in the Film and Video Database at Austrian Independent , accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ^ Film: A trip to the suburbs . Article in the daily newspaper Der Standard , Vienna, on September 12, 2007, accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ A well-rehearsed team stands behind the party congress backdrop . Report in the WAZ , January 21, 1983.
- ↑ 100 years of Josef Wolfgang Ziegler - Because the song is our life . Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen event on November 24, 2006, accessed on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ Russia in Vienna - A film by Nadeschda Tschistjakowa ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Brief description from Alpha Austria , accessed on January 27, 2010.
- ^ Coffee Express - A Journey Through the World of Coffee. Coffee Express - A journey through the world of coffee . Brief description from ORF Content Sales International , English, accessed on December 23, 2011.
- ↑ Info on 3sat , accessed on November 7, 2016.
- ↑ Viennese delicacies. In: Description on online TV magazine. Fernsehserien.de, accessed December 19, 2018 .
- ^ Precious Metal - Precious Crafts. In: ORF-Content Sales. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
- ^ Sound of Vienna. In: ORF-Enterprise - Content. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
- ↑ TV tips for Saturday, June 16 - derStandard.at. Retrieved December 19, 2018 (Austrian German).
- ↑ How does the sea come to Vienna. In: IMDB international. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schukoff, Alexander |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director, film producer and video artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz , Austria |