Andreas Horvath

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Andreas Horvath (born August 25, 1968 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker .

Life

Andreas Horvath studied photography at the Federal Graphical Training and Research Institute in Vienna and MultiMediaArt at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences . His documentaries have been shown at numerous festivals, including a. Locarno International Film Festival , International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam , London Film Festival , Visions du Réel , San Francisco International Film Festival .

In 2004 his film This ain't no Heartland received the Grand Prix at the Chicago International Documentary Festival . The film depicts the atmosphere in the American Midwest at the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003. The jury's decision was controversial because one of the jurors abstained. The reactions to the film were mixed: This ain't no Heartland was compared to Fargo and Fahrenheit 9/11 . The New York Times called the film "grimly funny", but also attributed polemics to the filmmaker . Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader called the film a "disturbing" ( "disturbing"). The film critic David Sterritt of the American daily newspaper The Christian Science Monitor described the film as "the most urgent and alarming wake-up call" and defended it on Fox News . In Austria, This ain't no Heartland was shown neither on the Diagonale nor at the Viennale .

In 2007 and 2008 Horvath shot several music videos for the British songwriter Sarah Nixey (originally the singer of the English band Black Box Recorder ).

Horvath's second full-length documentary Arab Attraction (2010) was made in collaboration with Monika Muskała . It is about Barbara Wally , the art historian , feminist and former director of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg , who married a Yemeni shortly before her retirement and converted to Islam .

In 2010 Horvath received the award of the city of Freistadt at the Heimatfilmfestival , and in 2013 the Outstanding Artist Award of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture .

Horvath's third full-length film Earth's Golden Playground deals with the new gold rush in Dawson City , Yukon . He was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize in 2014.

In September 2015 Horvath's full-length documentary Helmut Berger, Actor premiered at the Venice Film Festival . The performances of the film, in which Helmut Berger masturbates in front of the camera in one scene, resulted in Berger's separation from Florian Wess as well as an advertisement brought in by his wife Francesca Guidato for bigamy . In the December issue of Artforum magazine , Helmut Berger, actor from US director John Waters , was “the best, maybe before films like Carol ( Todd Haynes ), Cinderella ( Kenneth Branagh ) or Mad Max: Fury Road ( George Miller ) but also the worst film of 2015 ”. Waters wrote in his explanation: “The rules of documentary access are permanently fractured here when our featured attraction takes off all his clothes on camera, masturbates, and actually ejaculates” (German: “The rules of documentary access are permanently broken when the one shown Attraction stripped of all clothes, masturbated and actually ejaculated in front of the camera ”). Berger later distanced himself from working with Horvath and sued him for damage to his reputation because he was not legally competent at the time he agreed to the film. The lawsuit was dismissed in August 2020.

Horvath's first feature film work, Lillian , was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 as part of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs series and was nominated for the Caméra d'Or . The strip produced by Ulrich Seidl is inspired by the true story of Lillian Alling, an emigrated Russian who set out from New York in 1927 to cross the North American continent on foot and return to Russia via the Bering Strait . The Polish newcomer Patrycja Planik can be seen in the almost exclusively silent main role.

Photo books

Filmography

  • 1995: Wienzeile (series of six commercials for Wienzeile magazine )
  • 1998: Clearance (short film, 17 min.)
  • 1999: Adam and Eve (AIDS Public Awareness cinema spot, 1 min.)
  • 1999: Poroerotus (documentary, 45 min.)
  • 2002: The Silence of Green (documentary, 48 min.)
  • 2004: This ain't no Heartland (documentary, 105 min.)
  • 2006: Views of a Retired Night Porter (documentary, 38 min.)
  • 2009: The Passion According to the Polish Community of Pruchnik (documentary, 30 min.)
  • 2010: Arab Attraction (documentary, 118 min.)
  • 2011: Postcard from Somova, Romania (documentary, 20 min.)
  • 2013: Earth's Golden Playground (documentary, 106 min.)
  • 2015: Helmut Berger, Actor (documentary, 90 min.)
  • 2019: Lillian (feature film, 128 min.)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rob Nelson: Minneapolis City Pages http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/4th-annual-get-real-city-pages-documentary-film-festival/Article?oid=140712
  2. ↑ Stephen Holden: War in Iraq, Viewed Through the Blurred Lens of Rural America http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/movies/film-review-war-in-iraq-viewed-through-the- blurred-lens-of-rural-america.html
  3. ↑ Jonathan Rosenbaum: This ain't no Heartland http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/this-aint-no-heartland/Film?oid=1069501
  4. ^ David Sterritt: It's hunting season at the cinema http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0820/p15s01-almo.html
  5. ↑ Fox News Channel: This ain't no Heartland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRvUtRr7PE
  6. ↑ Helmut Berger's marriage is over - after nine weeks . Die Welt , September 14, 2015
  7. ↑ Wife reports Helmut Berger for bigamy . Picture , October 6, 2015
  8. ↑ John Waters: Best of 2015: Film . Artforum , December 2015
  9. ↑ John Waters: Best of 2015: Film https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201510&id=56221
  10. ↑ lisa.trompisch: failed to document action: Helmut Berger in court. August 25, 2020, accessed August 31, 2020 .
  11. ↑ The 2014 Prize Winners ( Memento from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Horvath, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg