Christoph Janetzko
Christoph Janetzko (born May 7, 1951 in Katowice , Poland ) is an internationally active German film director , cameraman , film editor and film lecturer. He is considered to be one of the more important representatives of German experimental film of the post-iconic era, who was one of the first German experimental filmmakers to appreciate and consistently use digital possibilities ( Sisom , Amos Tonlabor ).
Life
After his family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1962, Janetzko studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig , first painting and graphics from 1976 to 1978 and then film from 1978 to 1982 . He graduated as a master class student with Gerhard Büttenbender . From 1985 to 1986 he received a postgraduate scholarship from the DAAD at the Graduate Department for Film and TV at New York University .
His (experimental) short films have been shown at numerous national and international festivals, including Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen , Festival International de Jeune Cinema in Hyères , Berlinale , New York Film Festival , San Francisco International Film Festival , Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan) , L'Etrange Festival de Paris , Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France), ShortVision International Short Film Festival Ningbo China and Great Lakes Film Festival (Erie / USA)
Janetzko has received numerous honors and prizes for his work - from artist grants from the State of Lower Saxony to the title ' Particularly Valuable ' (for Change ) and the German Film Critics ' Prize (for S1 ) to prizes at the festivals in Oberhausen , Hyères (France), Jersey City , Pittsburgh (both USA).
As a director-cameraman, he has brought his skills to bear in advertising at home and abroad. Janetzko is the producer of the ZDF feature film "Bayani" (director: Raymond Red , Philippines 1991). He has worked as a cameraman in the feature film ( One Night Husband Director: Pimpaka Towira , Thailand 2003), but much more often in music documentaries, especially in collaboration with Ulrich Stein (for example with Herbert Grönemeyer , including editing).
Since 1982 Janetzko has been teaching short film, camera, lighting and post-production at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and Hamburg Media School , and at times also at the Berlin University of the Arts and Bauhaus University Weimar . He taught seminars and workshops for the Goethe Institute , with a focus on North and South America and East Asia.
Janetzko lives and works in Berlin .
Movies
- 1979 window 15 min
- 1981 change 30 min
- 1984 SN 15 min
- 1985 1 15 min
- 1986 M 20 min
- 1987 On Ludlow in blue 13 min
- 1994 From the River - River Colors 60 min
- 1995 Sisom 30 min
- 2004 AX 10 min
- 2010 Arno's sound laboratory 8 min
- 2014 Poetry and Reggae in São Luis 76 min
Web links
- DVD with some of his films
- Great Lakes Film Festival 2014
- Variety 2003 via One Night Husband
- Grönemeyer TV documentary
Individual evidence
- ^ Great Lakes Film Festival. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janetzko, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice , Poland |