Michael Palm (filmmaker)

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Michael Palm on the occasion of the screening of Body Trail at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz, 2010.

Michael Palm (* 1965 in Linz , Austria ) is an Austrian filmmaker , film editor , sound designer and film theorist .

Life

After completing his civil service in 1985, Palm studied at the Vienna Film Academy and additionally in the fields of philosophy , film and media studies at the University of Vienna . He graduated in 1993.

Since 1988 he has mainly worked in the areas of film editing and sound design and has worked on over 20 short films and around 25 feature films (as of 2018).

He is the author of numerous lectures and publications on the history and aesthetics of film and cinema was, 1990-1994 film critic at Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and the Viennese weekly Falter and since 1998 as a lecturer at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts , and since 2012 worked at the Art University Linz ; Further lecturing activities at the Austrian Film Museum and various non-university educational institutions. As a curator, Palm worked for the Viennale and Ars Electronica, among others . Since the summer semester 2020 he has shared the 100% professorship in Montage with Beatrice Babin at the University of Television and Film Munich .

Michael Palm has been a writer and director of documentaries and short films since 2001. His third feature-length documentary, Cinema Futures , premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2016 .

Fonts (selection)

editor

  • Zs. With Drehli Robnik (Ed.): And the word became flesh. Texts about films by David Cronenberg. Vienna 1992, PVS publisher.
  • With Christian Cargnelli (Ed.): And the sun rises again and again. Texts on the melodramatic in the film. Vienna 1994, PVS publisher.

Book contributions

  • Quartet of five. In: Alexander Horwath (Ed.): The seventh continent. Michael Haneke and his films. Vienna 1991, European publishing house.
  • The space - uncanny expanses. The empty space and science fiction cinema. In: Karl Sierek (Ed.): Film theory AND. Vienna 1991, PVS publisher.
  • Which way? Three paths through Kurt Kren's picture bushes. In: Hans Scheugl (Ed.): Ex Underground. Kurt Kren. His films. Vienna 1995, PVS publisher.
  • Documents, fictional. In: Peter Assmann u. Peter Kraml (Ed.): Fiktion / non-fiction. Worldviews between fiction and reality. Catalog for the Kubin project of the Upper Austrian State Gallery. Linz 1995, Residenz Verlag.
  • Love movies. On some of the works by Peter Tscherkassky. In: Alexander Horwath, Lisl Ponger, Gottfried Schlemmer (ed.): Avantgarde Austria. 1950 until today. Vienna 1995, Verlag Wespennest.
  • The birth of the nation from the spirit of the operetta. Musical rhetoric on April 1, 2000. In: Ernst Kieninger, Nikola Langreiter, Armin Loacker, Klara Löffler (Eds.): April 1, 2000. Edition Film and Text 2, Vienna 2000, Filmarchiv Austria.
  • Flux Aeterna. Stanley Kubrick in the musical rental company. In: Regina Schlagnitweit u. Gottfried Schlemmer (Ed.): Film and Music. Vienna 2001.

Filmography (selection)

Director:

  • 2001: Sea, Concrete, Human (short film, 29 min)
  • 2003: Sim Movie (short film, 1 min)
  • 2004: Edgar G. Ulmer - Der Mann im Off (feature documentary, USA / Austria / D, 77 min, director, screenplay, editor)
  • 2006: Mozart Sells (short film, 1 min)
  • 2008: Body Trail (short film, 8 min, with Willi Dorner )
  • 2009: Laws of Physics (short film, 15 min)
  • 2011: Low Definition Control (feature documentary, 95 min.)
  • 2016: Cinema Futures (cinema documentary, 126 min.)
  • 2018: Demontage (short documentary, 29 min.)

Film editing, sound design / music:

  • 1996: The total therapy (feature film, D, 125 min, editing, film composition; director: Christian Frosch )
  • 1999: Ceija Stojka (documentary, Austria, 87 min, editor; director: Karin Berger )
  • 2002: Auf allen Meeren (documentary film, Austria, sound editor; director: Johannes Holzhausen )
  • 2002: I am from Nowhere (documentary, Austria / D / UK, 80 min, editor; director: Georg Misch)
  • 2004: Calling Hedy Lamarr (documentary, Austria / D / UK, 71 min, editor; director: Georg Misch)
  • 2004: Volver la vista - The reverse view (music, sound design; director: Fridolin Schönwiese)
  • 2006: No Name City (documentary, Austria, 86 min, sound editor; directors: Florian Flicker , Georg Misch)
  • 2007: Once sweet home (documentary, Austria, 75 min, editor; director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger )
  • 2007: Weisse Lilien (feature film, Ö / D / LUX / UNG, 96 min, editing, sound design; director: Christian Frosch)
  • 2009: Jobcenter (documentary Ö, 80 min, editor; director: Angela Summereder)
  • 2009: The 5 Cardinal Points (documentary Ö, sound design; director: Fridolin Schönwiese)
  • 2010: Nachtschichten (documentary film Ö, editing; director: Ivette Löcker )
  • 2011: The Process (documentary film Ö, editing, sound design; director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger)
  • 2012: Elektro Moskva (editor; directors: Dominik Spritzendorfer, Elena Tikhonova)
  • 2014: If it's dazzling, open your eyes (editing; director: Ivette Löcker)
  • 2016: Homo Sapiens (documentary Ö, editor; director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter )
  • 2016: Ich seh Ich seh / Goodnight Mommy (editor; directors: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala)
  • 2017: Was und bindet (editor; director: Ivette Löcker)
  • 2018: Lillian (editor; director: Andreas Horvath)
  • 2019: The Lodge (feature film, US / UK, editor, directors: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala)
  • 2019: Die Kinder der Toten (feature film Ö, editor, director: Nature Theater of Oklahoma / Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska)

Awards

  • Diagonale 2002: Innovative Cinema Prize for Sea, Concrete, Human
  • San Francisco International Film Festival 2002: Certificate of Merit in the New Visions category for Sea, Concrete, Human
  • New York Expo of short film and video: Honorable Mention in the Fiction category for Sea, Concrete, Human
  • Diagonale 2009: Innovative Cinema Prize for Laws of Physics
  • Diagonale 2010: Award "Best Artistic Montage Documentary" for "Jobcenter" (Director: Angela Summereder)
  • 2012: Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Ministry of Art

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personal data
SURNAME Palm, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker and theorist, film editor, film composer and sound designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria