Philipp Eichholtz

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Philipp Eichholtz (2016)

Philipp Eichholtz (born October 22, 1982 in Hildesheim ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film editor .

biography

Philipp Eichholtz grew up in a small town near Osnabrück . At the age of 15 he made his first short film with school friends . In the following eight years he realized 23 other projects. In 2005 he won the young talent award of the Hamm Film Festival with the 4-minute film The Last Evening . Invitations to the Wiesbaden Film Workshop and the 19th European Media Art Festival followed . Between 2006 and 2007 he was invited to 17 other festivals with various works.

Eichholtz successfully completed his training as an editor in the summer of 2005. Since then, the focus of his work has been on music videos , among others for the bands Kapelle Petra , Peilomat , The Intersphere , Global Kryner and Da Blechhauf'n . For the videos, Eichholtz usually took on the conception, direction and editing . In 2007 he worked on various feature films and series productions as an assistant to the set recording manager, including two Tatort productions for the RBB .

Career

In 2008 Philipp Eichholtz made his first feature film Meine Daten und ich , in which the director, author and actor Axel Ranisch appears as a fictional director. The film, a documentary with feature film elements, was created out of the feeling that many of the then new anti-terrorist laws attacked the personal rights of all German citizens. From 2009 he shot his second feature film Untitled Jerry Schatzberg Project in New York and London. The documentary film deals with the life of the legendary director Jerry Schatzberg ( Asphalt Blossoms ), born in New York in 1927, and his fight against the “Hollywood system”.

In February 2013 Eichholtz wrote the script for the film Liebe mich! with Lilli Meinhardt, Christian Ehrich and Peter Trabner , which he implemented in the summer of the same year with a borrowed budget of only 4,000 euros. The love drama had its premiere at the Hofer Filmtage 2014 and started in the cinema in August 2015. Eichholtz's second feature film, also independently produced, the depression tragic comedy Luca dances quietly with Martina Schöne-Radunski and Hans-Heinrich Hardt, received an invitation to the Max Ophüls Prize competition in 2016 . Both films were included in the catalog of the online video library Netflix in 2017 .

With his first cinema films, Eichholtz established himself as a representative of the so-called German Mumblecore , a variety of young, digital cinema whose fans rely a lot on improvisation and usually get by with little or no production budget. Eichholtz made his first films according to the “Very Good Films” manifesto by Axel Ranisch, but the independent filmmaker does not promote a clear assignment to Mumblecore.

In 2017, Philipp Eichholtz shot his third feature film, Tailwind from the Front with Victoria Schulz , Aleksandar Radenkovic and Daniel Zillmann , who opened the Perspective German Cinema section of the Berlin International Film Festival 2018 in February 2018 . During the festival, Eichholtz was recognized as one of the “10 Europeans to watch for 2018” by the US industry magazine Variety .

Also in 2018, his fourth feature film Kim has a penis - again with Martina Schöne-Radunski and Christian Ehrich as well as with Stella Hilb - celebrates its world premiere as the final film of the series Neues Deutsches Kino at the Munich Film Festival 2018.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2008: my data and me
  • 2014: love me!
  • 2016: Luca dances quietly
  • 2018: Tailwind from the front
  • 2018: Kim has a penis

Web links

Commons : Philipp Eichholtz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sponsored by grandma. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Anna Fastabend: Netflix became curious about this director . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 10, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 3, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Filmmaker Philipp Eichholtz - "Netflix is ​​a blessing for us" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on July 3, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Making films, just like that . In: @GI_weltweit . ( goethe.de [accessed on July 3, 2018]).
  5. ^ Mumblecore in German - A list of films. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Very good films. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Carole Horst: Variety Unveils 10 Europeans to Watch for 2018 . In: Variety . January 17, 2018 ( variety.com [accessed July 3, 2018]).
  8. ↑ "What's going on?" with Philipp Eichholtz | epd film. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Details - KIM HAS A PENIS. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eichholtz, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim