Thomas Kutschker
Thomas Kutschker (born September 16, 1963 in Mannheim ) is a German filmmaker , photographer and cameraman .
Life
Kutschker completed his training as a photographer at the Lette-Verein in Berlin from 1985 to 1987 . Since 1988 he has been working with video / film and photography. From 1993 to 1996 he studied as a postgraduate at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne. From 2000 to 2005 he taught at the Humboldt University in the Department of European Ethnology , from 2005 to 2011 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and since 2006 he has been giving seminars at the University of the Arts Berlin in the department "Visual Communication" / Basics of the Design of Moving Images. His best-known films are: I Just Wanted This Photo (1993), The Dark Lights (1996), The Vanishing Frontier (1999) and Shooting Locations (2009).
Filmography
- 1988: Dear T. in B.
- 1991: The game of flowers
- 1992: Rojo y Verde
- 1992: untitled
- 1992: I just wanted this photo
- 1989/1993: Belleville (together with Mathias Briechle)
- 1995: Marita
- 1995: About modern life
- 1996: The dark lights
- 1997: John E. Loskot - The lost Hero (together with Thomas Arnold)
- 1999: The Vanished Frontier ( The Little TV Game )
- 2000: the limit
- 2006: Delights Hot Spa (together with Thomas Arnold)
- 2007: Backyard
- 2008: Shadow Worlds
- 2009: Shooting location
- 2010: Me, Myself and I in the Age of Download
- 2011: At the border crossing | At the border crossing
- 2011: Democratic Locations
- 2012: As a person you no longer felt like you were there
- 2013: Everything passes in life
- 2014: 6028, clerk
- 2015: Financial Locations (global mash up)
Awards
- 1993: Prize Winner, Freiburg Video Festival ( I just wanted this photo )
- 1998: Award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the field of film
- 1999 and 2000 working grants for artists from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2000: Prize Winner, Architecture & Film Film Festival Regensburg ( The Dark Lights )
- 2001: First Prize / Best Film, Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy ( The Vanished Frontier )
- 2010: "Predicate Particularly Valuable" for the short film "Am Grenzübergang"
- 2011: "Predicate Particularly Valuable" for the short film "Democratic Locations"
- 2012: "Predicate Particularly Valuable" for the short film "As a person one no longer felt like"
- 2013: "Predicate Particularly Valuable" for the short film "In life everything goes over"
Festivals
Kutschker's work is shown at festivals around the world, such as B. the Videonale Bonn, the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück; the Duisburg Film Week, the Oberhausen Short Film Days; the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival; the Kassel film and video festival; the Rencontres Paris / Berlin; the documentary film festival in Jighlava; the London International Documentary Film Festival, the Milan and Turin International Film Festivals, the Asolo Art Film Festival; the Locarno International Film Festival, the Images Festival in Toronto and the Tribeca International Film Festival in New York City.
Photographic series (excerpts)
- 1988: Metros
- 1988-93: BodyBodies
- 1990: Visages
- 1990: Death Stripe, Berlin (Death Stripe, Berlin)
- 1992: Havana, promenade
- 1992/93: Torsi / Distorsi
- 1996: Trailer
- 1996: The Seven Sins
- 1996: California Homes
- 1996-98: Home Sweet Home
- 1997: On Apparent Disappearance
- 2000 ff .: Opposites
- 2000–2004: Images Remembered - Collection Germany (Erinnerte Bilder - Collection Germany)
- 2005: NN - passport photographs
- 2005 ff .: film stills
- 2007 ff .: After-Images (afterimages)
- 2007/08: TV stills
- 2008: Global Berlin
- 2009/10: WEB stills
- 2011: The regime of the visible
- 2011: digital candles
- 2012: Approaching Reality I
- 2013: Approaching Reality II
- 2012–2014 ff: Digital Scapes
Book projects
- 2007: "NN - Passport Photo Photographs", ISBN 978-3-932187-60-5
- 2009: "stills.expanded", ISBN 978-3-932187-72-8
- 2010: "schwarz.rot.gold", ISBN 978-3-932187-83-4
- 2011: "Recollected Pictures Collection Germany", ISBN 978-3-00-036915-5
- 2011: "ArtFairFloorCologne"
- 2012: "digital candles", ISBN 978-3-00-038101-0
- 2012: "In den Hauptstrassen", ISBN 978-3-00-040429-0
- 2013: "Pohlstrasse, Berlin 1987 | 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041056-7
- 2013: "Home Sweet Home - American Stories", ISBN 978-3-00-044352-7
- 2014: "passing by | en passent", ISBN 978-3-00-047909-0
- 2014: "UdL [Unter den Linden]", ISBN 978-3-00-047562-7
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1994: Academy of the Arts, Berlin (group exhibition)
- 2003: Goethe-Institut Rome (solo exhibition)
- 2007: Galerie Kasten, Mannheim (solo exhibition)
- 2009: Galerie Hunchentoot, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Archives and collections
- mediaartbase.de
- Federal Film Archive
- German Association of Artists
- House of the Documentary
- Inter Media Art Institute
- New Berlin Art Association
- Vidéothèque de Paris
literature
- Camera Austria No. 82/2003 Forum - Remembered Pictures - Series Germany
- Photo story. Contributions to the history and aesthetics of photography Issue 87, 2003: The back of photography
- Book accompanying the 2000 Photo Triennial, Tampere, Finland
- Andreas Greulich et al. : Longing for Utopia - Film and Photography in Dialog Kehrer, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 978-3-933257-21-5
- The basics of a medial topic in: Aesthetics and Communication Issue 107, December 1999
- Kunstforum Volume 143, 1998, topic: The art of living as Real Live
- Daidalos , Edition 51, 1994: Topic: Peripherie / Cologne, ISBN 978-3-538-11402-9
Web links
- filmisches.com - fotografisches.com - websites by Thomas Kutschker
- Thomas Kutschker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Collection of the New Berlin Art Association
- Institute of Media Art, Düsseldorf
- Bremen film office
- Thomas Kutschker at filmportal.de
- Database for experimental film and video art
- IMDB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kutschker, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |