Hannes Lang

Hannes Lang (* 1981 in Brixen ) is an Italian film director , cameraman and film producer living in Germany .

Life

Training and first directorial work

Hannes Lang grew up in the South Tyrolean Dolomites . After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and a technical diploma as a geometer , he worked as a production assistant at the Castelrotto film studio Penn before he began studying audiovisual media at the Cologne Art Academy in 2004 . Several short documentary films were made during this course, including a. "A community in the mountains" (documentary, 2006, 42 min, DV, color) about dealing with tourism in Lang's hometown Castelrotto and "Der Schnelle Brüter" (documentary, 2007, 18 min, DV, color), a film about an amusement park in the former Kalkar nuclear power plant . Lang's graduation film "Leavenworth, WA" (documentary, 2008, 29 min, DV, color) about a place in the US state of Washington , which was transformed from economic hardship into a Bavarian village and now attracts millions of tourists, was a international festival success and has received several awards. These early works already show the formal influence of filmmakers like James Benning or photo artists like Bernd and Hilla Becher , especially with regard to the staging and depiction of (useful) landscapes.

Cinema debut and foundation of Petrolio

In 2011, Lang received the Gerd Ruge scholarship and made his debut at DOK Leipzig with his first full-length film Peak - Over All Summits (documentary, 2011, 90 min, HD, color), which was awarded the Goethe Institute's Documentary Film Prize on the occasion . The film about the technical upgrading of the alpine landscapes ran in German cinemas in March 2013 after an international festival tour and multiple awards.

Together with filmmakers Mareike Wegener and Carmen Losmann , Lang founded the production cooperative »Petrolio« in the winter of 2012. Lang and Wegener, who have been working together on various films since their studies, produced the documentary film I Want To See The Manager with »Petrolio« , which premiered at the Danish festival CPH: DOX and opened in German cinemas on September 3, 2015. In 2019, Petrolio published Hannes Lang's short documentary Riafn , which celebrated its world premiere at Visions du Réel and then went on an extensive festival tour, during which it received numerous awards, including a. with the Silver Gentian at the Trento Film Festival , the best film in the NRW competition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , the best camera at the Rhode Island Flicker Film Festival, the special film at the Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival, and much more

For Carmen Losmann's full-length documentary Oeconomia , which premiered in February 2020 as part of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section, Hannes Lang acted exclusively as a producer for the first time.

Filmography

2006: A community in the mountains (documentary short film)
2007: The Fast Breeder (documentary short film)
2008: Leavenworth, WA (documentary short film)
2011: Peak (documentary film)
2014: I Want To See The Manager (documentary) also producer
2019: Riafn (documentary short film) also producer

Awards

2011: Gerd Ruge project grant
2011: Documentary film prize of the Goethe Institute for Peak - Above all peaks
2019: Scholarship for artistic film from the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia