Carl Andersen (director)

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Carl Andersen (born May 15, 1958 in Vienna ; † August 3, 2012 in Berlin ) was an Austrian film critic and director of underground and low-budget films , who has lived in Berlin since 1991 . He has also acted as a producer , writer, and actor on his films . His films are about sex, relationships, and filmmaking and how it affects relationships and sex. In his films the boundaries between fiction, documentation and reality dissolve, especially when it comes to his own person and the role as director and actor.

Life

Carl Andersen worked as a film critic for three decades and has made films himself since 1988. He was co-founder of the Viennese cinema scene and organizer of the first gay and lesbian film festival in Austria. Andersen provided u. a. The film Liquid Sky, which is now considered a cult film in Austria, was a forum that continued for many years and, as an intermediary between production companies and cinemas in Austria and Germany, took care of the showing of films that were considered difficult to market outside of the prevailing zeitgeist.

He organized the festival of subversive film , which was shown in Berlin and at the Filmmuseum Potsdam . During the German cinema tour for the film Angst , which he organized , he met its main actor Erwin Leder (known for his role as Johann, the ghost from Wolfgang Petersen's film Das Boot ), with whom he later wrote the films Vom Luxus der Liebe (1998), Chien Fuck (2006) and Curiosity (2011) occupied. The Berlin director Lothar Lambert , who has been making films since the early 1970s, made a documentary about both of them in 2005 with the title Kiss the Camera - Wiener Wahn hoch zwei . Lambert also starred in some of Andersen's films.

In Berlin, Andersen worked for many years at the Negativeland video library , to whose holdings he had brought a large number of idiosyncratic and unusual films.

Until his sudden death, he worked on his new film Obsession: 25 frames per second , an experimental and at the same time fictional and documentary work about his position as a filmmaker and that of his actors.

On his 50th birthday he devoted the Berlin cinemas bread factory and Tilsiter Lichtspiele in July 2008, a total retrospective.

Filmography

  • 1988: Vampyros Sexos aka I was a teenage Zabbadoing
  • 1990: Mondo Weirdo aka Jungfrau am Abyss
  • 1990: What's so dirty about? (Short film)
  • 1993: Killing Mom
  • 1995: vodka, jazz and perestroika
  • 1996: Titty Twist in Hell
  • 1996: Unleashed Vampirellas in Chains (short film for ORF / ZDF on the compilation film Kino im Kopf von Michael Glawogger )
  • 1998: About the luxury of love
  • 2000: The longing for more
  • 2001: Andersen's fairy tale of love
  • 2002: Lick an apple like a pussy: The movie Stanislawski never made (Co-Director: Silvia Lindner)
  • 2004: Ice Age (co-authors: Malga Kubiak, Sybille Kleinschmitt)
  • 2006: Female Summer
  • 2006: Chien Fuck! (Completed in 2008)
  • 2011: The Ratman and his muses
  • 2011: curiosity
  • 2012: quicksand

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personal data
SURNAME Andersen, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film critic and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2012
Place of death Berlin