Oliver Held (filmmaker)

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Oliver Held (* 1970 in Aachen ) is a German film editor , filmmaker and artist .

Live and act

Oliver Held studied fine art at the Münster Art Academy from 1991 to 1995 . In addition to his studies, Oliver Held worked as a video cameraman, director and editor, and in 1994 began teaching editing and film design at the Essen and Münster film workshops and at the Münster Art Academy. From 1999 to 2001 he completed a postgraduate course with a focus on film / television at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . The short experimental film Spring , which has won several national and international awards, was his graduation film at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne. Furthermore, Oliver Held appeared in public with several exhibitions worldwide, including his own video installations , before and during his studies .

Held works as a freelance editor for film and television and also took up a professorship at Macromedia University in 2016 , where he lectures in the areas of post-production and directing.

Oliver Held lives in Cologne.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2002: Spring (short film), (screenplay, direction and editing)
  • 2003: The good man thinks of himself last (short film), (script and direction)
  • 2009: Wüstenglück (TV report), (cut)
  • 2009: Oliviero Toscani - Bilderwut (TV report), (editor)
  • 2010: Death on the tracks - trauma of a train driver (TV report), (cut)
  • 2010: Heinz Emigholz - The Drawn World (television documentary), (editing)

Exhibitions

  • 2012: Group exhibition Pictures against the Dark. Video art from the imai archive at KIT , Kunst im Tunnel , Düsseldorf

Awards

  • 2002: Winner of the Children's Jury Award for Spring at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival
  • 2003: Third place in the jury award for Spring at the Landshut Short Film Festival
  • 2004: Winner of the German Film Critics' Prize in the Best Experimental Film category for Spring

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards for Goldener Spatz ( Memento from March 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Oliver Held at the Macromedia University , macromedia-fachhochschule.de, accessed on March 31, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor, filmmaker and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen