Nils Loof

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Nils Loof (born December 10, 1970 in Hanover ) is a German cameraman , director , author , film producer and university professor .

Live and act

Nils Loof grew up in Wunstorf near Hanover. While still at school, he drew cartoons and experimented with oil and watercolors. Inspired by the film To the Point, Sweetheart by May Spils , he produced the first flip books at the age of thirteen during school lessons. In order to try out all forms of fine art for himself, Nils Loof attended nude drawing courses with the Hanoverian graphic artist Heinz G. Kanitz and set up a studio and a darkroom in his parents' house. After Loof took up photography, tried his hand at short stories and plays, he found film to be the ideal form of expression that unites all of the performing and visual arts. After graduating from Hölty - Gymnasium - Wunstorf in 1991, he produced his first short film "Deflowered". While doing community service in a batik workshop in Hanover, other films were made. While his first films were still made with a video camera, he shot the film "He couldn't scream across the ranks" with a Bolex - on 16 mm film. From 1993 to 1999 Nils Loof studied visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel with Manfred Vosz , Günter Reisch and Paul Driessen, among others . At the University of Applied Sciences in Hanover , he began a second degree in 1997 in the field of design for electronic media, which he did not finish. After graduating, Loof mainly worked as a cameraman for various television companies. Nils Loof was on the board of the Film- und Medienbüro Niedersachsen eV from 2004 to 2005 and has been a permanent member of the jury for the Cast and Cut grant of Nordmedia and the Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover since 2005 . Nils Loof is a member of the German Film Academy .

June film

While still studying at the Kassel Art College, Loof founded his own film production company in order to be able to work independently. This resulted in a number of short films that were shown at numerous film festivals in Germany and abroad. The films received a total of 18 prizes and awards, including the German Short Film Prize and the Murnau Short Film Prize . In autumn 2018, Nils Loof founded Junifilm in Hanover together with Jan Philip Lange , Anke Hartwig , Niklas Bäumer and Cineteam Hannover on the initiative of managing director Jan Philip Lange . The headquarters of Junifilm had been in Berlin since 2002 .

Teaching

After teaching positions at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and the University of Hildesheim , Nils Loof has been Professor of Administration at the University of Hanover in Faculty 3 - Media, Information and Design since autumn 2009 . In 2011 and 2012 he headed the film department of the youth academy of the Summer Music Days Hitzacker . In 2014 he became the patron of the student film workshop for the media center of the Hanover region. In March 2016 he was appointed professor for film design in theory and practice at the University of Hanover. Since 2013 Nils Loof has been giving seminars at foreign universities, so he teaches actors at irregular intervals at the Western University of Timisoara in Romania and in 2019 led a master class - "Mystery" in the film department at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town .

Artist group "Export"

In 2008 Loof founded the artist group Export together with four other artists . The specialty of the way the group works is the joint creation of a work. Due to this operation of the Austrian art historian said Andreas Czuchra in his speech to an exhibition on 26 November 2010. pioneered by Teamismus . In 2012 the artist group broke up.

Filmography

Short films (selection)

Feature films

Documentation

Music videos

watch TV

Books

Exhibitions

  • Performance - Galerie Lunar (Hanover). May 15, 2010. Export group.
  • "Export before court" - exhibition and performance in the gallery in the atrium (Hanover). Exhibition opening: November 26, 2010. Export group.
  • "Art: Concept" - untitled studio (Hanover). Exhibition opening: May 21, 2011. Export group.
  • Performance Zinnober-Kunstvolkslauf - Atelier untitled (Hanover). September 3, 2011. Export group.
  • "Me, myself and why" - group exhibition in the Untitled Gallery (Hanover). Exhibition opening: August 15, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sprengel-museum.de/bilderarchiv/sprengel_deutsch/downloaddokumente/pdf/statistik_zeichnung_smh_2013.pdf
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPmBMW4tZc&feature=youtu.be
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmbuero-nds.de
  4. ↑ http://www.arte.tv/de/zoom-cast-cut-stipendium-tv-beitrag/2151166,CmC=2886024.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arte.tv  
  5. ↑ http://beta.blickpunktfilm.de/details/432772
  6. ↑ https://www.filmportal.de/institution/junifilm-gmbh-berlin_4c3ca27a49ab46c18107c331f76a9918
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdkQIsbUlg
  8. ↑ http://www.mzrh.de/index.php/100-projekte/198-schueler-film-werkstatt-2014/
  9. ↑ http://www.adz.ro/artikel/artikel/ich-habe-das-gefuehl-dass-der-deutsche-film-glatt-gebuegelt-ist/
  10. ↑ http://vimeo.com/16598954
  11. ↑ Press release of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences on Playground: Love dated August 7, 2013. Accessed on August 19, 2013.
  12. ↑ [1] of July 24, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Loof, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, cameraman and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover