Catherine Copony

Katharina Copony at Crossing Europe 2018

Katharina Copony (born December 26, 1972 in Graz ) is an Austrian filmmaker.

Life and work

Katharina Copony grew up in southern Styria and Graz. She first studied art history in Graz and then studied visual media design with Peter Weibel at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the University of the Arts in Berlin .

In the 1990s she took part in exhibitions of fine arts with her video works, realized multimedia projects and was artist in residence in Japan as part of the Arcus Project . Stays in Rome, London and Sarajevo followed.

As script / continuity and assistant director, Katharina Copony has worked on numerous feature films (among others by Barbara Albert , Valeska Grisebach , Isabelle Stever , Jessica Hausner ).

Her documentary films deal with ephemeral spaces as well as social and topographical transition zones. These areas also experience a formal and conceptual parallel management. “Of course it is essential to have a concept, but I also want to remain open to something that I did not plan beforehand. Find what you weren't looking for. I'm interested in films that are similar to a painting or a poem and not a novel. ”Coponys films are shown at international festivals and on television and are distributed by the Austrian film distributor Sixpackfilm .

In December 2019, the Filmarchiv Austria organized a retrospective of their previous cinematic work.

Filmography

2001: der Wackelatlas - collect and hunt with HC Artmann ( script and direction)

2004: Kanegra ( script and direction)

2006: Il Palazzo (script and direction, production)

2009: Oceanul Mare ( script and direction, production)

2014: Player (script and direction)

2016: Moghen Paris ( script and direction, production)

2019: In der Kaserne (script and direction)

Awards

2001: Austrian adult education TV award for the wackelatlas - collecting and hunting with HC Artmann

2006: ARTE documentary film award of the Duisburg Film Week for Il Palazzo

2009: 3sat documentary film award of the Duisburg Film Week for Oceanul Mare

2012: Outstanding Artist Award for Documentary Film

2016: Erste Bank MehrWERT-Filmpreis Viennale '16 for Moghen paris - and they go along

2017: Best Film at the International Intangible Heritage Festival (IIFF), Jeonju / Korea

Web links

Commons : Katharina Copony - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Filmography on dok.at
Films at Sixpackfilm
Player at NGF (Geyerhalterfilm)
Catherine Copony in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Katharina Copony at filmportal.de
A pinch of mistrust always remains in the game - Interview 3sat
To Oceanul Mare - by Michael Sennhauser
Vienna Boy's Choir (1994-1995) selected by Katharina Copony from the Neue Galerie Graz collection. by Günther Holler-Schuster and published by the Slaught Foundation (Philadelphia 2009) ISBN 978-0-9815409-7-9

Individual evidence

↑ Katharina Copony in conversation with Andreas Ungerböck In: Ray . Issue 11/2019 ( ray-magazin.at ).
↑ Personal Katharina Copony .
^ Jury statement for the 33rd Duisburg Film Week: "Language as a border and means of communication, ethnographic and social condition and development through movement. At Oceanul Mare, formal strategies and thematic approaches correspond in a captivating way. An outstanding reflection on the present (...) "
↑ Jury statement: “A film that invites us on an atmospheric journey, starting with ancient cork oaks, it gently leads to a carnival parade in a Sardinian mountain village. It is the cinematic translation of a magical process. The magic shows itself in the social practice of carnival, which develops in the form of a movement towards a collective intoxication. It is a lively, rousing change in a structure that is not inscribed in the memory, but is nonetheless visible in people's actions. "

personal data
SURNAME	Copony, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz

[1] Katharina Copony in conversation with Andreas Ungerböck In: Ray . Issue 11/2019 ( ray-magazin.at ).

[2] Personal Katharina Copony .

[3] Jury statement for the 33rd Duisburg Film Week: "Language as a border and means of communication, ethnographic and social condition and development through movement. At Oceanul Mare, formal strategies and thematic approaches correspond in a captivating way. An outstanding reflection on the present (...) "

[4] Jury statement: “A film that invites us on an atmospheric journey, starting with ancient cork oaks, it gently leads to a carnival parade in a Sardinian mountain village. It is the cinematic translation of a magical process. The magic shows itself in the social practice of carnival, which develops in the form of a movement towards a collective intoxication. It is a lively, rousing change in a structure that is not inscribed in the memory, but is nonetheless visible in people's actions. "