Ferry Radax

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Ferry Radax (2014)

Ferry Radax (born June 20, 1932 in Vienna ) is an Austrian filmmaker .

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He was trained as a choirboy in Vienna and later learned singing and piano at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt / Main . He has been writing screenplays since 1949 , first by taking notes in the cinema , then soon his own and, from 1953, others together with colleagues from the film academy . Practical film work began in 1951 as an assistant from scratch. Since then he has been an author , cameraman , film editor , director and finally as a producer of documentary / experimental / advertising / series / music and feature films.

After three years of documentary films in Austria, attended the film schools in Vienna in 1953/54 and in Rome in 1955/56, Cinecittà , Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia . This was followed by years of work in Switzerland , Germany and Italy , rarely in Austria, but ongoing film work in France , Hungary , Great Britain , Ireland , Norway , Japan , Peru , St. Helena , USA , New Zealand , etc. After several festivals and prizes, personal film weeks in the London National Film Theater , Paris Center Pompidou , Berliner Lupe, Munich Gasteig , Zurich , Rome, Tokyo .

After all, 40 different films from 40 years of filmmaking and the complete oeuvre of 120 productions were shown at the Albertina Film Museum in Vienna in 1993. In 2012, the Diagonale film festival dedicated a personal to Radax. In September 2017, the first major retrospective in the USA took place in the Anthology Film Archives in New York.

Works

  • 1954: The Raft, Italy
  • 1955: Mosaic in trust, Linz
  • 1959: Sun stop, Italy / Switzerland
  • 1967: will
  • 1961–1963: At the Edge, Europe
  • 1966: Hundertwasser - life in spirals
  • 1967: HC Artmann
  • 1969: Konrad Bayer, Austria
  • 1970: Thomas Bernhard - Three days , self-portrait by Thomas Bernhard , Hamburg
  • 1971: Schizophrenic painter, Gugging
  • 1972: The Italian , Austria
  • 1973: Floris von Rosemund
  • 1974–1976: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cologne
  • 1975: Maxim's in Paris, Munich
  • 1977: Among friends, Vienna
  • 1979: Assassination attempt in Gastein
  • 1980: Who are you, Mr. Joyce?, Zurich
  • 1980/81: Japan, or the search for ...
  • 1982: With Erich von Däniken in Peru
  • 1983: Capri - music that moves away
  • 1985: The life of JS Bach
  • 1989: Napoleon on St. Helena
  • 1990: Beyond Austria, St. Helena
  • 1995–1998: Hundertwasser in New Zealand
  • 2007–2011: Videography I - Vestenötting (1945)
  • 2012–2014: Videography II - Waidhofen (1947)

Awards

literature

  • Georg Vogt, Otto Mörth, Isabella Hirt (eds.): Ferry Radax - vision, utopia, experiment . Special number, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-85449-393-8
  • Austrian Society for Film Studies, Communication and Media Research (ed.): Ferry Radax - special issue film art No. 93 , Vienna. Born in 1982
  • Theresa Taudes: Ferry Radax 'portraits of Friedensreich Hundertwasser . Thesis. University of Vienna 2010.
  • Peter Tscherkassky: The halted sun of Ferry Radax . In: ders. (Ed.): Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-garde Cinema. Synema, Vienna. 2012. ISBN 978-3-901644-42-9
  • Katharina Manojilovc, Harald Schmiederer: Unheimliches Wolfsegg. To the film The Italian by Thomas Bernhard and Ferry Radax . In: Johann Georg Lughofer (Ed.): Thomas Bernhard , Böhlau, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-205-78811-9 .
  • Georg Vogt: Goldenberg in the cinema, Sisiphos on the train. Vlado Kristls the dam and Ferry Radax 'stop sun! . In: Christian Schulte, Franziska Bruckner, Stefanie Schmitt, Kathrin Wojtowicz (eds.): Vlado Kristl - The moon is a French. Mask and Kothurn. International contributions to theater, film and media studies, Issue 3–4 2011, Böhlau, Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3-205-78670-2
  • Juliane Vogel: I am so tall and you are so small. Fantasies of omnipotence in Ferry Radax` SUN STOP! . In: Thomas Ballhausen (Ed.): Psyche in the cinema: Sigmund Freud and the film . Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2006. ISBN 978-3-901932-89-2
  • Michael Omasta: Keyword lexicon on Bayer, Radax, “Stop sun!” In: Alexander Horwath, Lisl Pongerl, Gottfried Schlemmer (eds.): Avant-garde film Austria 1945 to today. Waspennest, Vienna 1995. ISBN 3-85458-508-X

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Künstlerhaus Wien Filmmatinee 2008 on the 75th birthday of Ferry Radak

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SURNAME Radax, Ferry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna