Dore O.

Dore O. (born August 9, 1946 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; actually Dore Oberloskamp ) is a German filmmaker , painter and photographer . She has made a name for herself especially in the field of experimental film and is a co-founder of the Hamburg Filmmaker Cooperative .

Life

After studying design at the Krefeld University of Applied Sciences and studying painting in Perugia and Hamburg, she worked as an actress in films by Werner Nekes , whom she married in 1967. In 1968 she became - together with Helmut Herbst , Hellmuth Costard , Thomas Struck and others, including her husband Werner Nekes - co-founder of the "Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative". Also from this year onwards she produced her own films, books, pictures and photos. The interdisciplinary art representation Dore Os combines landscapes, architecture and people into multi-dimensional and often experimental image networks. She lives and works in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Appreciation

The titles of the films, which do not allow direct communication, contrast extremely with the commercial film. They appeal to the viewer's power of association, where the commercial film titles are solely concerned with arousing voyeuristic and sadistic desires, which the content is then unable to satisfy. From the start, Dore O.'s work denied its commodity character, which would consist in being made “appealing”.

Dore O. participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977.

Awards

• 1970: Silver film tape for Jüm-Jüm
• 1974: German film critic's award for Kaskara
• 1974: Grand Prix for Kaskara on EXPRMNTL 5 in Knokke
• 1974: Ruhr Prize for Art and Science from the City of Mülheim
• 1981: German Film Critics' Prize for Beuys

Works

• "Eye-Step" (2000)
• "Thermoment" (1998)
• "Endo-Heat" (1997)
• "Xoanon" (1994)
• "Candida" (1991)
• "Blindman's Ball" (1988)
• "Encyclopedia" (1984)
• "Beuys" (1981)
• "Kaskara" (1974)
• "Blonde Barbarism" (1972)
• "Kaldalon" (1970–71)
• "Jüm-Jüm" (1970)
• "Lawale" (1969)
• "Alaska" (1968)

Literature and Sources

• Documenta 5. Survey of Reality, Imagery Today. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Material, the presentation of the visual worlds and the artists. Volume 2: List of the exhibited works, the presented situations, the expected events, their nature, their manufacturers and owners, their organizers. General bibliography. Guide through the Exhibition. ). Documenta ua, Kassel 1972, ISBN 3-570-02856-9 (in ring binder).
• documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .
• Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X .

credentials

1. ↑ http://www.filmzentrale.com/essays/filmevondoreodk.htm

Web links

• Literature by and about Dore O. in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Dore O.
• Short biography with photo
• The movies
• Dore O. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Blindman's Ball (1988)
• Materials by and about Dore O. in the documenta archive