Frederick Wiseman

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Frederick Wiseman (2005)

Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930 in Boston , USA ) is an American director.

Life

The son of a Polish woman and a Russian worked as a lawyer in Paris after studying law and serving in the military. In 1958 he became a research associate at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Boston University and later a lecturer in the law school. Since 1967 he has also worked as a film director . He made over 40 documentaries and also made two feature films. Alongside DA Pennebaker , Robert Drew and Richard Leacock , he is considered an important pioneer of US direct cinema . His film Titicut Follies , shot at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts in 1967, was one of the most complicated censorship cases in film history and was not released to the public until 1991 by the Supreme Court.

In 1982 he was a MacArthur Fellow . In the spring of 2012, Wiseman took an active part in the three-month exhibition run of the 2012 Whitney Biennial . In 2016 he was awarded the Oscar of Honor .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1967: Titicut Follies
  • 1968: high school
  • 1969: Law and Order
  • 1971: Basic training
  • 1971: I Miss Sonia Henie
  • 1973: Juvenile Court
  • 1974: Primate
  • 1975: Welfare
  • 1976: Meat
  • 1977: Canal Zone
  • 1978: Sinai Field Mission
  • 1979: Monoeuvre
  • 1986: Adjustment and Work
  • 1987: Missile
  • 1989: Near Death
  • 1990: Central Park
  • 1993: Zoo
  • 1994: High School II
  • 1997: Living on the outskirts of the city
  • 2005: The Garden
  • 2006: State Legislature
  • 2009: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
  • 2010: Boxing Gym
  • 2011: Crazy Horse
  • 2013: At Berkeley
  • 2014: National Gallery
  • 2015: In Jackson Heights
  • 2017: Ex Libris - The New York Public Library
  • 2018: Monrovia, Indiana

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Thomas W. Benson, Carolyn Anderson: Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1989. ISBN 978-0-809313-64-8 . (English)
  • Trenczak, Heinz (1990): "The place is the star." A portrait of the US documentarist Frederick Wiseman. In: Blümlinger, Christa (ed.) 1990: Jump in the mirror. Cinematic perception between fiction and reality. , Pp. 295-304, Vienna: Sonderzahl Verlag. ISBN 3-85449-023-2
  • Hohenberger, Eva (ed.) 2009: Frederick Wiseman. Cinema of the social . Berlin: Vorwerk 8. ISBN 978-3-940384-14-0

Web links

Commons : Frederick Wiseman  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas W. Benson, Carolyn Anderson: Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991, ISBN 978-0-809315-18-5 . ( limited preview in Google Book Search, English)
  2. ↑ Lance Duerfahrd: Discovering the Shock of Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies. In: pov Aarhus University - Department of Information and Media Studies, December 2006, accessed on July 13, 2015 .
  3. ^ Roberta Smith : A Survey of a Different Color. 2012 Whitney Biennial. The New York Times , March 1, 2012, accessed March 12, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Jackie Chan, Anne V. Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman to receive Academy's 2016 Governors Awards at oscars.org, September 1, 2016 (accessed September 2, 2016).
  5. ^ Zipporah Films High School. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  6. ^ Zipporah Films Law & Order. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  7. ^ Zipporah Films Central Park. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Cristina Nord: pond in close-up. The daily newspaper , September 4, 2013, accessed on September 4, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Zipporah Films In Jackson Heights. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  10. ^ Zipporah Films. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Honorary Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Tamara Krinsky: Close Up on Wiseman: Pioneering Documentarian Earns Cinematographers Guild's Highest Honor. International Documentary Association , accessed on February 26, 2017 (English).
  13. ^ Daniel James Scott: An Interview With Frederick Wiseman. Filmmaker Magazine , January 10, 2012, accessed February 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiseman, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , USA