Caterina Klusemann

Caterina Klusemann (born February 8, 1973 in Lucca , Italy) is a German film director and documentary filmmaker .

Life

The daughter of the painter Georg Klusemann and the Venezuelan sociologist and photographer Elena Hochman-Klusemann grew up in a village in Tuscany. In 1981 the father died. She grew up trilingual in Venezuela and Germany and completed school in French-speaking Switzerland and a neurobiology degree in German-speaking Switzerland. She then studied from 1997 to 2001 at the Film School of Columbia University , a. a. with Richard Peña , Annette Insdorf , Tom Kalin and Milena Jelinek .

With Ima (2001), the long version of her graduation film Matrilineal about her grandmother, and the 2007 film Georg about her father, Caterina Klusemann traces the gaps in her family history, the hidden, suppressed and lost parts; a third part has been announced. This type of personal documentary film receives the support of the Mainz editorial team of ZDF / ARTE for creative documentary film , the Lucarne editorial team.

Since graduating in film directing from Columbia University with cum laude in 2001, Caterina Klusemann has been known to German and French audiences as a documentary filmmaker, primarily through broadcasts on arte. In addition, her films have been broadcast by other international broadcasters and shown at festivals in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

In addition to the central, not yet completed personal trilogy, she has directed and written scripts for several essay documentaries.

In addition, she experimented with video installation and radio plays. She also worked with children and created the children's feature film Paul and Baatar . The basis for her international work is Berlin.

Klusemann's documentaries follow insights they have experienced, both family-historical and autobiographical as well as deliberately experienced adventures. The questions of personal identity, honesty and authenticity dominate the autobiographical elements.

Her 16 mm short film "H&G" (2001), made together with Esther Duran and an adaptation for adults of "Hansel and Gretel" in the anonymity of New York, addresses the theme of the lost of the individual, the abandonment and the breakdown of interpersonal communication on.

She received the Bavarian Film Prize for outstanding young talent “Young Lion” in June 2002 for Ima and the Women's Media Prize Lower Saxony - Juliane Bartel Prize 2002 for Ima . The European Coordination of Film Festivals awarded her the Jameson Short Film Prize at the Dresden Film Festival in 2002 for Matrilineal .

Filmography

Direction and script: Trilogy (with Lucarne )

• Georg (2007, documentary), first broadcast planned for summer 2008 at arte / Lucarne
• Ima (58 min., 2001), Foundlingspreis of the Landesverband Filmkommunikation Mecklenburg-Vorpommern .

Direction & script: work films

• The old woman and the sea (52 min., 2007, documentary in the Geo 360 series )
• Matrilineal (30 min., 2001, documentary, short version by Ima ), graduation film from her degree in film directing at Columbia University
• H & G (21 min., 2000, script, direction and editing together with Esther Durán, fairy tale adaptation for adults), book based on Hansel and Gretel

Direction and script: essay films

• Love for a third party (58 min., 2007: Are three better than two for the dance of love?) As part of the theme evening Ménages à trois
• Dresscode (52 min., 2006) as part of the themed evening Dresses make the man
• Fregionaia (20 min., 2006, documentary film about the last moment of the psychiatric hospital of the same name near Lucca, place of work of the writer Mario Tobino )

Direction and script: children's films

• Paul and Baatar (70 min., 2003–2006, children's adventure film, shot in Mongolia)

Producer (for other films)

• For Our Man (30 min., 2003), directed by Kazuo Ohno

Web links

• Caterina Klusemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• English website
• Website about her father and her documentary Georg
• Review of Ima in De Volkskrant , in Dutch, archive for a fee
• Discussion of Ima in Mabuse: Revista de Cine (Colombia) in Spanish, October 30, 2003
• Article about Caterina Klusemann in the daily newspaper , chargeable archive
• Discussion by Ima , Berliner Morgenpost, October 8, 2002
• Review of Imas by Iris Noah

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Huwyler, J. Drewe, C. Klusemann, G. Fricker: Evidence for P-glycoprotein-modulated penetration of morphine-6-glucuronide into brain capillary endothelium. In: British journal of pharmacology. Volume 118, Number 8, August 1996, pp. 1879-1885, ISSN  0007-1188 . PMID 8864518 . PMC 1909885 (free full text).
2. ↑ Article about the group exhibition paradiso @ diaspora
3. ^ From Geo magazine on the film
4. ↑ Discussion of the theme evening on arte ( memento of the original from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Topical evening page from arte ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Brazilian review ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.  
7. ^ Site for the children's film at the German National Film Information Center