Eva Stotz

Eva Stotz (born June 5, 1979 ) is a German documentary film writer , director and producer. Her works are determined by the examination of the term home , the social impact of globalization , and social developments through urbanization .

Live and act

After graduating from the Anna-Essinger -Gymnasium in Ulm , Eva Stotz studied French film history at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier . Her first short film L'après-midi won several awards at festivals. From 2001 she studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) . She made her first full-length documentary film Earth in Hand in 2004 in Transylvania ( Romania ) on the multi-layered concept of home . Eva Stotz is a member of the Super-9 film collective, which she founded in 2005 together with eight other directing students from the dffb.

For her second full-length documentary film Sollbruchstelle about the emotional power of work, she received the award of the city of Duisburg endowed with 5,000 euros at the 32nd Duisburg Film Week 2008. For this film, too, she was awarded the advancement award endowed with 15,000 euros at the 2009 German Television Award.

The small television play promotes her graduation documentary film Global Home, in which Eva Stotz deals with the topics of xenophobia and hospitality using the worldwide online host service Couchsurfing . The film premiered at the renowned SXSW (South by Southwest) festival in Austin, Texas and was screened at numerous international festivals.

In 2013 she founded her own production company in Berlin ronjafilm. With this she produces her short documentary One Million Steps, which tells the Gezi protests in Istanbul solely through non-verbal languages ​​such as rhythm, movement and dance. The main actress is the Amsterdam tap dancer Marije Nie. The film premiered at the Istanbul Film Festival Documentarist in 2015, was shown at over 100 festivals and received 12 awards (including the Jury Prize of the 34th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) (Montréal, Canada), audience award and best documentary film at the 13th Cinedans - Dance on Screen Festival Eye (Amsterdam, Netherlands), audience award and best documentary at the 39 (Grenzland-Filmtage Selb, Germany), best experimental film at the 26th Bamberg Short Film Festival). It was broadcast on Swiss television SRF in the show Sternstunde .

In 2015 she received an artist grant from the Foreign Office and the Goethe Institute Istanbul in the Istanbul district of Tarabya . There Eva Stotz developed her first audiovisual performance Moments of Movement, where she "put on" documentary images, mostly from her film archive, to live music and dance. The performance was invited to Limerick as the opening show of the Light Moves Festival, as well as to the Ulm town hall .

Since 2017, Stotz has been working as a curator and workshop leader on the art project Labor in a single shot by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann. Together with Antje Ehmann she gives workshops in Vilnius (2017), Marseille (2018), Chicago (2019), Shanghai (2020) and Bogota (2020).

In 2019 her first interactive work Field Trip goes online. Field Trip is an interactive documentary film about the past, present and future of the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. Together with the media partner Der Tagesspiegel , the living documentary will go online on May 12, 2019.

Filmography

• 2001: L'après-midi (short film)
• 2004: earth in hand
• 2004: Warsaw Flow (music video)
• 2005: Igor (short film)
• 2005: In need to make a Living (short film)
• 2005: Tempelhof (short film)
• 2006: Boda boda (music video)
• 2006: Inside / at night (short film)
• 2009: 24h Berlin
• 2009: predetermined breaking point
• 2009: Haiku (short film)
• 2012: Global Home
• 2015: One Million Steps
• 2016: Moments of Movement
• 2019: Field Trip

bibliography

• When in doubt, the devil sits . In: Andres Veiel , Béatrice Ottersbach (ed.): Documentary. Workshop reports . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft , Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-86764-085-5 , pp. 82-109

Awards

• 2008: Duisburg Film Week : Sponsorship Award from the City of Duisburg
• 2009: German Television Award: Sponsorship Award

Web links

• Eva Stotz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Eva Stotz film collective Super-9
• Eva Stotz homepage
• Alumni Profile Eva Stotz (en) Berlinale Talent Campus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ the winners of the 32nd Duisburger Filmwoche Duisburger Filmwoche 2008
2. ^ The winners of the 2009 German TV Prize
3. ↑ House guests. Documentary by Eva Stotz Das kleine Fernsehspiel, ZDF
4. ↑ L'après-midi, film excerpt online ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 3 min, 24.3 MB  
5. ↑ Earth in hand, film excerpt online ( memento of the original from April 12, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 6 min, 50.1 MB  
6. ↑ Warsaw Flow, film excerpt online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 2 min, 15.6 MB  
7. ↑ Igor, film excerpt online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Flash video format, 4 min, 31.7 MB  
8. ↑ In need to make a living, film excerpt online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Flash video format, 6.5 min, 55.5 MB  
9. ↑ Tempelhof, film excerpt online ( memento of the original from March 8, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 4 min, 33.9 MB  
10. ↑ Boda boda, film excerpt online ( memento of the original from February 26, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 6 min, 46.9 MB  
11. ↑ Inside / at night, film excerpt online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 3.5 min, 28.6 MB  
12. ↑ Breaking point, film excerpt online ( memento of the original from December 28, 2011 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. , Flash video format, 2 min, 16.5 MB  
13. ↑ Haiku, Film online ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Flash video format, 3 min, 36.4 MB