Anka Schmid

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Anka Schmid (born March 8, 1961 in Zurich ) is a film director , screenwriter and video artist . She is counted among the German as well as the Swiss filmmakers.

Life and accomplishments

She grew up as the eldest of three daughters of an engineer and a teacher in Zurich. After graduating from a girls' grammar school in 1980, she began studying German and was a member of a street theater and a music band in the 1980s. She made her first experimental videos and Super 8 films. In 1984 she moved to Berlin and applied to the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), where she studied until 1990. In addition to making her own videos and short films on 16 mm, she worked as a camera and assistant director in professional film productions.

In 1989 she lived for a year in the Hopi region in Arizona in the USA and made the documentary Techqua Ikachi, Land - Mein Leben , together with the Swiss artist Agnes Barmettler and the Hopi Indian James Danaquymptewa , which was shown at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival . In 1991 Anka Schmid completed her film studies at the DFFB with the multi-award-winning feature film Behind Closed Doors . From then on she worked as a freelance filmmaker and assistant director in Germany, Switzerland, France, Argentina and the USA.

In 1994 her son was born in Berlin . Shortly afterwards she made the essay film Magic Matterhorn , which she shot in Zermatt , California and Berlin. In 1998 Schmid moved with her child from Berlin to Zurich. In addition to her own works, she also began working as a director of commissioned films and as a film lecturer at universities of applied sciences. She has also been leading animation workshops for children and young people for several years. Her film With the Belly Through the Wall was awarded the Zurich Film Prize in 2011 .

Filmography

  • 1986: The Journey to the South Seas (screenplay, direction, drawing, editing)
  • 1986: Habibi - A Love Letter (screenplay, direction, editing)
  • 1986: Herzens-Freude (screenplay, direction, animation, editing)
  • 1989: Techqua Ikachi, Land - Mein Leben (screenplay, director, camera)
  • 1989: The praying mantis ( Georgette Meunier , camera)
  • 1991: Behind closed doors (screenplay, director)
  • 1991: Practical and Peaceful (screenplay, director)
  • 1996: Magic Matterhorn (screenplay, director)
  • 1997: Labyrinth projections (screenplay, direction, camera, production)
  • 1998: Little Sister (screenplay, director)
  • 2000: Das Engadiner Wunder (screenplay, direction, camera, production)
  • 2002: perpetual motion machine
  • 2003: ABC Sound Alphabet (screenplay, director)
  • 2005: Yello - Electropop Made In Switzerland (screenplay, director)
  • 2007: Rondo Industrial - Found Footage II (mechanical & organic) (concept, direction)
  • 2007: Shake Hands - Found Footage IV (Diplomacy & Choreography)
  • 2009: Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch - The Big Game (screenplay, director)
  • 2009: Hierig-Heutig (concept, implementation)
  • 2011: With the stomach through the wall (Against All Odds) (screenplay, director, camera)
  • 2012: Marzili Badi
  • 2014: Fe-Male
  • 2015: Wild Women - Gentle Beasts (Writer, Director)
  • 2016: La Dada - King Deer
  • 2017: ZB - More than a library
  • 2017: hairy

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Genhart: Ciné-Portrait Anka Schmid on swissfilms.ch.
  2. ↑ Short biography of Anka Schmid on www.mitdembauch-film.ch
  3. ↑ Anka Schmid at www.swissfilms.ch
  4. ^ City of Zurich: Zurich Film Awards 2011
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Anka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Anna-Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director, screenwriter and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich