Anja Salomonowitz

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Anja Salomonowitz is an Austrian filmmaker .

Life

Salomonowitz began studying art history and film and theater studies at the University of Vienna , but soon switched to the Vienna Film Academy , where she specialized in directing and editing . As a film editor , she also attended the University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

Salomonowitz studied film in Vienna and Berlin and worked for the film director Ulrich Seidl during her studies . All of her films have been shown at hundreds of film festivals around the world. She holds masterclasses on artistic documentary film at universities (including at Aalto University in Helsinki, Department for Film and Television or University of Fine Arts Vienna) or film festivals (tutor at the Documentary Academy at the Jihlava International Film Festival since 2015).

In 2013/14 Salomonowitz was chairwoman of dok.at , the interest group for Austrian documentary films, and in 2016/17 chairwoman of the Austrian Film Directorate. Her hybrid films are explicitly political and, in their artistic form, question the limits and possibilities of the documentary. All of her films follow a strict color concept.

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One of her earliest works was four "commercials" against racism lined up to form a short film : get to attack . Her filmmaking line of subversively addressing socio-political problems is already evident here. Her first film to open regularly in theaters was the 52-minute documentary You Will Never Understand (2003). In it, she confronts herself and family members with her family history: The Jewish great aunt was in a concentration camp, her nanny in the socialist resistance and her grandmother “did nothing”. The film is kept in white throughout: white clothing and background ensure neutrality, the viewer's concentration is directed to the words of their family members, which were mostly recorded in everyday situations.

In her film, codenamed Figaro , a short one-minute long film - a contribution to the Mozart year 2006 - she poses the ironic question of whether " the wedding of Figaro . In a mock phone call between a woman and her foreign fiancé, as it relates to Austrian immigration policy “ Was just a sham marriage . During the phone call, the two people ask each other the answers to possible questions from the immigration police: “What did you give me for the wedding?”, “Where do I have birthmarks?” The film ends with an invitation: “Marry a migrant for love, it is a chance for him to live and work in Austria. "

This was followed by Just before it happen , a documentary about women. The women concerned are not shown themselves; instead, their stories are told by amateur actors . Skillfully questioning and breaking common documentary strategies and possibilities, the film found its way into many books, magazines and essays on documentary film and was shown at many film festivals around the world.

In 2012 Salomonowitz made her first feature film: Spain . The script was written in collaboration with the writer Dimitré Dinev . The music comes from Max Richter , the main role of Sava is played by Grégoire Colin . In 2013, Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo followed, a documentary against aliens law. In it, binational couples tell of their collision with the law, the film again follows a special narrative concept and won the Silver Eye Award.

In May 2015, Anna Badora presented Salomonowitz as the director of Der Junge wird beschnitte as part of her program for her first season as the artistic director of the Vienna Volkstheater . The piece was performed in 2016. In it, children repeat texts from interviews with adults on the subject of circumcision. The play was a great success.

2019 comes This film is a gift to the Künstlerhauskino in Vienna. " This film is a present is a film about the artist Daniel Spoerri. Actually, it is a film about a thought by Daniel Spoerri: a film almost without Daniel Spoerri, actually it is mostly played by a child - to say nothing less than that everything somehow goes on in life, even if you die in between. " This hybrid documentary also follows her narrative line and skilfully breaks the tradition of documentary oral history films. The film asks questions about a modern, documentary representation of Holocaust stories - and about the artist portrait.

Documentaries:

  • 2003: You will never understand that, 52 min.
  • 2006: It happened shortly before , 72 min.
  • 2013: The 727 days without Karamo, 80 min.
  • 2016: The boy is circumcised, 75 min.
  • 2019: This film is a gift, 72 min.

Feature films:

  • 2012: Spain, 102 min.

Short films:

  • 2000: Carmen, 23 min., Video
  • 2001: get to attack, 5 min
  • 2002: Projections by a projectionist in a porn cinema, 14 min., Video
  • 2005: A Monument to Defeat, video installation
  • 2006: Code name Figaro - Mozart 2006, 1 min., Video

Prices

  • 2010 Outstanding Artist Award from the Federal Ministry for Art and Culture
  • 2019 honorary award of the Frauenfilmtage for the film series WIDERSTANDSKINO together with the director Mirjam Unger
  • Awards for The 727 Days Without Karamo :
    • 2013: Silver Eye Award, Jihlava Int. Documentary film festival
  • Awards for Just Before It Happened :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daniel Ebner, celluloid - the Austrian film magazine: Anja Salomonowitz - "You will never understand" (PDF; 9 kB) ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anjasalomonowitz.com archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . No date (page accessed October 20, 2007)
  2. ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh, Der Standard : Show differently, to see differently . October 9, 2007 (page accessed October 20, 2007)
  3. ↑ Summary of the code name Figaro ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anjasalomonowitz.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.anjasalomonowitz.at (page accessed on October 20, 2007)
  4. ↑ Festival Screenings of Shortly Before It Happened
  5. ↑ Mayer, Norbert: Badora brings 22 premieres at the Volkstheater in Die Presse on May 7, 2015, accessed on July 10, 2015
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Anja Salomonowitz at dok.at
personal data
SURNAME Salomonowitz, Anja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fried, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna