Gerda Leopold

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Gerda Leopold (* 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian filmmaker and painter .

Life

Gerda Leopold is the daughter of the Austrian ophthalmologist and art collector Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010), whose collection formed the basis for the Leopold Museum in Vienna . After finishing school in Vienna, she studied painting from 1979 to 1985 at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Karl Horst Hödicke .

In Berlin she began her professional career as an artist with exhibitions in Europe and overseas. Initially, her painting was based on architectural structures. From 1993 she painted figuratively ; in New York (1996–2000) her interest in narrative forms of expression increased, which led Gerda Leopold to give up painting in 2005 to only make films.

Gerda Leopold has been working on short films since 2004 . Her film Mauer , released in 2008, was her first work with actors. The film was shown at the following locations: Shortfilmfest Los Angeles, Berlinische Galerie , Kurzfilmfest Ingolstadt, Waterside Project Space London, MUSA Vienna .

In 2012 she went to Vienna and founded her own film production company Amiluxfilm the following year .

Her first feature film Karussell was released in 2016. The experimental film was shot from the perspective of the protagonists . The actors wear a multi-camera helmet on which five cameras are mounted that record the front, left, right, top and rear at the same time. A separate projection room was designed for the presentation of the resulting 360-degree recordings.

Her virtual reality film Ballavita (2018) with Haymon Maria Buttinger , Bianca Kraml and Thomas Kraml was invited to the 75th Venice Film Festival in the Venice Virtual Reality section .

Filmography

  • 2004: The Enduring Promise (short film, 4 min)
  • 2005: The cycle of the cultural economy (Loop)
  • 2005: Time and Light (short film, 3 min)
  • 2007: Hearts (short film, 1 min)
  • 2007: The essence of space (short film, 6 min)
  • 2008: Wall (short film, 11 min)
  • 2011: One Always Dies (short film, 17 min)
  • 2016: Carousel (feature film, 96 min)
  • 2016: You're Welcome (short film, producer, 9 min)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Leopold is dead: the art collector's surprising demise, dismay and grief among the family and the private foundation . Press release of the Leopold Museum, published on June 29, 2010, accessed on July 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Carousel - room cinema. In: ots.at. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Austrian film fights for film award in Venice . OTS bulletin of July 26, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Leopold, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna