Ulrich Kaufmann (filmmaker)
Ulrich Kaufmann (born July 8, 1974 in Feldkirchen in Carinthia ) is an Austrian filmmaker, video and installation artist .
The self-taught businessman studied media education at the Vienna Media Center in 2003 and attended workshops for television documentation with Wolfgang Hackl and Peter Zurek from 2006-07 . Kaufmann became known for experimental documentaries and short films, stage films for theater, opera and ballet, directing as well as video performances and installations.
In 1999 he was a stage film on the multimedia opera Da Capo al Capone , a joint work of René Staar , Dieter Kaufmann , Erik Friday , Georg Amanshauser , Amy Leverenz and Eugene Hartzell involved 2003 children's opera heaven and hell , which the Carinthian Summer listed has been. In 2000 he directed the children's play Du und Ich Bockerl .
In 2000 Kaufmann realized the video performance Verboten in the casino on Schwarzenbergplatz of the Burgtheater . In 2007 the animation rafting medusas was created in collaboration with the painter Wolfgang Walkensteiner . His short film Portrait of a Woman in the Mirror was shown at the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival .
Kaufmann forms the multimedia group sogx.net with Sigrid Friedmann . One of their joint projects was the sixty-minute documentary Pompa (2006).
Works
- Sisy's Foot , stage film for the opera What material is the stone of Sisyphus made of , 1996
- Alpenbad , short film (with Hans Döllinger ), 1998 (Recognition Award Festival of Nations , Upper Austria, 1999)
- Dacapo Al Capone , Opera, 1999
- Im Bleiberg , mining monument in the Bad Bleiberg mining museum, 1999
- Das Spiel 1, 2, 3, 4 , short films (with Hans Döllinger), 1999–2008
- Daidalia or The Life of a Theory , opera by Anestis Logothetis , 2000
- Password: Gilles de Rais , music media performance (live music by Klaus Karlbauer and Philip Jeck ), 2001
- Zero and Ones , music media performance (live music by Klaus Karlbauer and Bernhard Loibner , performance Roswitha Schreiner ), 2001
- You and I Bockerl , children's theater, 2001
- Instead of my dreams , short film (with Gunda König ), 2002
- Sale , multimedia play (music: Dieter Kaufmann , choreography: Sabine Reiter ), 2002
- Heaven and Hell , children's opera by Wolfgang Liebhart , 2003
- At ground level , dance video performance (with Nikolaus Meixner ), Kulturtage Herzogburg St. Veit, 2006
- Octahedron , video sculpture (with Pepi Öttl ) for the Long Night of Museums in Völkermarkt, 2008
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SURNAME | Kaufmann, Ulrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian video and installation artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldkirchen in Carinthia |