Vanessa Aab
Vanessa Aab (born July 24, 1983 in Düsseldorf ) is a German - South African filmmaker , film scholar and media educator who grew up near Munich and in Königstein im Taunus . She lives in Frankfurt am Main .
Career
Aab studied scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim and the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris with the subjects film / media, visual arts , theater, cultural policy / cultural management and cultural mediation. She gained her first professional experience in the field of advertising film, image film and artistic film during her studies . She worked as a freelance director, producer, actress and film editor in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main, Hanover and Cape Town .
From 2007 to 2016 she was an artistic and scientific assistant at the University of Hildesheim at the Institute for Media, Theater & Popular Culture at the chair of Uwe Schrader . In 2013 she did her doctorate with Alexander Kluge on the subject of "Cinematographic Time Montage - On the History of the Development of Cinema". From 2016 to 2017 she worked in the film education and mediation department at the German Film Institute in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, she volunteers in the field of intercultural film mediation, e.g. B. as the initiator of the intercultural film club Blickwechsel Jetzt at the German Film Museum or in cooperation with the Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi in practical film work in refugee camps in Iraq. She has been a freelancer at the German Film Museum since 2017.
Vanessa Aab produced the short film Frollein Frappé in 2014 , a homage to the surrealist cinema Luis Buñuels . She wrote and directed the script herself. Cinematographer Thomas Mauch took over the design of the film, which was shot on traditional 16mm film material . Together with the actor Oskar Brown , Aab tells the story of Franz and Greta (played by the director herself) in Frollein Frappé, who are united in deep love. The couple are related to each other; as cousins they are bound by social conventions. As lovers, they try to deal with each other and with one another and defy social norms - until Greta emancipates herself from Franz's wishes. Feminist social criticism and experimental forms of film are not only a guiding principle here, but also in Vanessa Aab's other work.
Filmography
- 2005: For fuck sakes (short film)
- 2006: Search for Sanssouci (short film)
- 2008: Découpage (short film)
- 2010: Pink Body (short film)
- 2014: Frollein Frappé (short film)
Fonts
- Cinematographic time montages - On the history of the development of the cinema . Schüren Verlag GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89472-876-2 .
- The image potential in the age of the digital hybrid film: the mise en images in the change of technology using the example of the stylistic device of the plan sequence in Victoria and Birdman . Booklets for media culture research, 12/2015, Avinus 2015, ISBN 978-3-86938-077-3 .
Awards
- 2014: Berlin Short Film Festival: Prize for the best experimental film (Frollein Frappé)
- 2015: Winning the competition for the Biennial Edition of CinéWomen (Frollein Frappé)
- 2015: Girona Film Festival: Award for the best original music in the international short film category (Frollein Frappé)
- 2015: Spotlight Short Film Awards: Bronze Award (Frollein Frappé)
Web links
- Literature by and about Vanessa Aab in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vanessa Aab in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vanessa Aab on Filmportal.de
- Vanessa Aab homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release Blickwechsel Jetzt. Deutsches Filminstitut, October 1, 2015, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aab, Vanessa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-South African filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |