Ingo Hamacher Bellacoola

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Ingo Hamacher Bellacoola (born March 4, 1957 in Cologne-Kalk ; real name Ingo Hamacher ) is a German photographer , film director and producer . He is a co-founder of the art online service "Artworks" and was an advisor for new media to the CDU and former Chancellor Helmut Kohl .

biography

He was born on a Rose Monday in the working-class district of Cologne-Kalk as the only son of the merchant family Ruth and Josef Hamacher. There he later saw Rainer Werner Fassbinder filming the series 8 hours are not a day .

photographer

He was still working as an architecture photographer while he was still in his final class at Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Bensberg. He then first became a photo laboratory assistant for hand prints and later a studio photographer assistant in the photo studio of Gerd Sander, the grandson of Cologne photographer August Sander . At the same time, he photographed music bands such as Zappa , The Rolling Stones , Neil Young , Cat Stevens , Chick Corea and Barclay James Harvest for the magazines Musikexpress and Sounds . In addition, he designed the covers of German bands such as the Kraan saxophonist Alto, Andy Goldner and Hoelderlin and accompanied their tours. He was often a photographer and friend in the Conny Plank recording studio with artists such as Ultravox , Devo , Brian Eno , Kraftwerk , Can and many more.

Film director and producer

Later he studied multimedia with Daniel Spoerri and film with Robert van Ackeren at the Werkkunstschule Cologne, which later became the FH Kunst / Design. During his studies he chose the stage name "Bellacoola", the origin of which goes back to the North American Indians of the Nuxalk (also Bellacoola) tribe. Under this name he produced "Bellacoola Films" for WDR Cologne with the company . These included in the WDR children's program u. a. the program with the mouse and celebrity portraits, z. B. about Jürgen von der Lippe , Jochen Busse , Bazon Brock , Phillip Boa u. v. a.

After a radio report about the homeless for Deutsche Welle and a multimedia exhibition with sound collages and photos at the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam on the same topic, he staged excerpts from the lives of homeless and alcoholic people. At the “Theater der Welt” in Cologne in 1981, he directed a performance that dealt with the subject of “Bums in Cologne's Südstadt”. The theater-goers were driven through the city in buses in order to make very direct encounters with a reality that was foreign to them at various locations. This performance was filmed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - their paths crossed here a second time.

Awards and award ceremonies

"Bellacoola" received the 1st prize at the German children's film festival " Goldener Spatz " by Gera for directing the Maya feature film The Journey to the Gods . It tells the story of the Lacandon Maya boy Kayum from Chiapas / South Mexico , who wants to save the jungle from the impending environmental destruction.

As a producer he received the German Animago Award for the best computer animation of the K2 inline skate commercial "Witches on Wheels". The same commercial also won the Award-of-Master Business Film Prize for best special effects and for best production.

“Bellacoola” took part in festivals such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , the Frankfurt Film Festival and the Gera “Goldener Spatz” children's film festival.

Interactive media

From 1994 he produced the first interactive CD-I (Compact Disk Interactive) with MPEG-1 video as a studio partner of the Philips group. This included extensive image projects for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where all German space projects were presented.

As a pioneer of the German, interactive media scene, he founded the first German online art service “Artworks” together with the gallery owner Michael Krome. In cooperation with the Federal Association of German Galleries , the VG Bild-Kunst , the Museum Ludwig Cologne, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany and with Rudolf Zwirner as a mentor, it was possible to establish the first relevant European online service in the art sector. From 1995 to 1997 it showed an overview of German museums, most important galleries and artist portraits. “Artworks” was so successful and unique in the early days of the Internet that Intel commissioned “Artworks” to design an international, 3-dimensional, virtual gallery. It was called the “State of the Art Gallery” and offered all amateur and semi-professional artists a platform to evaluate their digital works by a professional jury of artists and art critics and then to exhibit them on the web. (First international project on "User Generated Content" with multimedia assets from Germany.)

From 1995 to 1998 he was an advisor for new media to the CDU and former Federal Chancellor. D. Helmut Kohl and introduced live video streaming and video-on-demand as a new communication tool in the German party landscape.

Together with the architect Hans Hermann Hofstadt, he developed the interactive interior design and media content for the Aquarius water museum in Mülheim an der Ruhr. This included u. a. an interactive film that enables visitors to ride a permanently mounted bike and simulate a bike ride along the route of industrial culture from the source of the Ruhr to the mouth of the Rhine. The Aquarius informs groups of visitors about drinking water and ecology .

In 2010 he was the first German independent producer to produce a stereoscopic 3D feature film (S3D), the English-language mystery thriller The forbidden Girl with Jeanette Hain and Peter Gadiot in the lead role.

Current films and projects

  • Stereoscopic 3D feature film (S3D), English-language mystery thriller The forbidden Girl
  • The Sandra situation
  • The Last Pimp , 90 min. Cinema documentary about Bert Wollersheim 's last great German pudgy of the old generation. “His” wives and he tell about the struggle against the bourgeois establishment , dreams, hope and disappointment of the sex workers after the legalization of prostitution .
  • Cooperation with Rebell.tv [1]
  • Brief analysis of the modern Internet TV marketing relationships using the example between MyVideo and ProSieben Sat.1 "... how the user is used".
  • Executive producer of the English-language horror film The Breeder by European Motion Pictures [2] , director: Till Hastreiter, producer: Holger Hage, location: Georgia Caucasus, Tbilisi
  • The Breeder trailer can be seen on [3]

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personal data
SURNAME Hamacher Bellacoola, Ingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamacher, Ingo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Kalk