FILZ Filmische Initiative Leipzig

Emerson Culurgioni, Florian Fischer, Anna Friedrich, Juliane Jaschnow, Jana Keuchel, Kathrin Lemcke, Jonas Matauschek, Andrea Rüthel, Stefanie Schroeder, Ginan Seidl, Nick Teplov, Clara Wieck, Katharina Wittmann 2020 15 min

25.9.2019

HABITAT at the Intercultural Week in Merseburg

Screening

16.9.2019

Special screening of FILZ films at Khorshid Independent and Experimental Film Festival

Screening, FILZ collective

5.9.2019

Screening of Umbra at the Gallery for Contemporary Art GFZK Leipzig

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Echo

Katharina Wittmann 2019 12 min

FILZ meeting in Rehmsdorf

FILZ collective

11.7.2019

SPIN and Backyard will be shown at Leipzig Luru Cinema, as part of the «Vergessene Aufklärungen» exhibition

Screening

13.6.2019

Last Year in Utopia will be presented at the 365 Tage Dokumentarfilm program in Kassel

Kino in Bewegung

She Works Hard by Kathrin Lemcke will be shown at the «Can't Take My Eyes Off You» exhibition in Leipzig

Exhibition, Screening

Experimental, Animation

The Wolf Fearing the Wolf

Juliane Jaschnow 2014 5 min

5.5.2019

FILZ joins the Radical Film Network Meeting in Berlin

FILZ collective, Talk

17.4.2019

Screening of HABITAT marks the opening of «Schicht für Schicht» in Leipzig

Screening

11.4.2019

Fancy a cinematic challenge? GEGENkino#6 starts with a brilliant program!

FILZ recommends

Experimental Documentary

rotation

Ginan Seidl & Clara Wieck 2013 8 min

31.3.2019

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds invited to the World Film Festival in Tartu

Screening

17.3.2019

Last year in Utopia will be presented at the Nonfiktionale Festival in Bad Aibling

Screening

5.3.2019

She Works Hard at Luru Cinema, accompanying a discussion about future perspectives of female artists

Screening, Talk

16.2.2019

Umbra by Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell awarded with Golden Bear for Best Short at Berlinale Festival!

Further Recognition

12.2.2019

Umbra by Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell premiers at Berlinale International Film Festival

Screening, Premiere

Experimental Documentary

Spin

Ginan Seidl 2017 80 min

16.1.2019

Filmmaker Katharina Knust provides insight into Last year in Utopia on national radio chanel Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Online, Talk

26.11.2018

Last Year in Utopia wins Basel Film and Media Art Award!

Further Recognition

22.11.2018

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds will be part of November Film Festival in London

Screening

Traumfabrik

Anna Friedrich 2013 10 min

23.12.2018

Last Year in Utopia celebrates Germany Premiere at Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis

Screening, Premiere

20.11.2018

GEGENkino – pre-filmfestival

Screening, FILZ collective, Talk

11.10.2018

The 4-channel video installation HABITAT wins G2 Kunsthalle prize for HGB graduates

Further Recognition

8.10.2018

HABITAT is presented as part of the International Competition at Provinziale 2018

Screening

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds: Further screenings in september

Screening

Experimental Documentary

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ ˌdɔi ʧlant]

Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder 2015 13 min

18.8.2018

She Works Hard by Kathrin Lemcke will be presented at Long Night of Films Festival Berlin

Screening

14.7.2018

LEUNA at Kurzfilmwanderung Leipzig

Screening

13.7.2018

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] by Juliane Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder at Syros International Film Festival

Screening

28.6.2018

Rotation at silent green summer cinema in Berlin: the alternative sports film event

Screening

Experimental Documentary

Last year in Utopia

Jana Magdalena Keuchel & Katharina Knust 2018 72 min

12.6.2018

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds wins the German Competition at Hamburg International Short Film Festival!

Further Recognition

9.6.2018

25 Jahre Werkleitz / 101 Auszeichnungen at Luchs Cinema Halle

FILZ recommends, Screening

5.6.2018

She Works Hard screened at #wessenfreiheit at the Academy of Visual Arts HGB Leipzig

Screening

Experimental Documentary, Video Installation

BOY//Bacha Posh

Yalda Afsah & Ginan Seidl 2015 30 min

10.6.2018

Last Year in Utopia at Sheffield Doc/Fest

Screening

40h, 2 months max. by Stefanie Schroeder from May 4th - 27th, 2018 at the Bienne Festival of Photography

Screening

4.5.2018

HABITAT by Emerson Culurgioni & Jonas Matauschek celebrates Germany Premiere at Filmkunstfest MV

Screening, Premiere

25.4.2018

Last Year in Utopia at Crossing Europe Festival Linz

Screening

2.5.2018

Screening of She Works Hard as part of the event series «WORK.Work.work»

Screening

23.4.2018

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds will be shown at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg

Screening

27.4.2018

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Screening

7.4.2018

Two FILZ films selected for Leipzig based Short Film Festival Kurzsuechtig

Screening

20.3.2018

Rotation at Tampere Film Festival

Screening

20.3.2018

World Premiere of Last Year in Utopia at the CPH:DOX Festival – nominated for the main award

Screening, Premiere

2.2.2018

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds will be shown at transmediale Berlin

Screening

8.1.2018

Temporal Disorder – Part #6: Angela Melitopoulos, January 8th, 2018 / GFZK Leipzig

FILZ recommends

3.11.2017

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds celebrates its World Premiere at DOK Leipzig

Screening, Premiere

31.10.2017

World Premiere at DOK Leipzig: No Sex Please by Florian Fischer

Screening, Premiere

15.10.2017

She Works Hard by Kathrin Lemcke premiers at Moviemento cinema in Berlin

Screening, Premiere

24.4.2017

World Premiere of HABITAT at Vision du Reél Film Festival in Nyon

Screening, Premiere

The Filmic Initiative Leipzig FILZ is an association of authors, filmmakers and artists. We share a strong interest in the moving image, especially in artistic documentary works.

FILZ creates  films, media art and installations in different constellations and in mutual support.

FILZ curates and organizes film screenings, workshops and talks.

FILZ writes about film and helps shape prevailing discourses.

FILZ seeks cooperation with other participants of the art and cultural scene.

FILZ started out in 2012 as a self-organized, autonomous film seminar at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig. Founding members were Gottfried Binder, Emerson Culurgioni, Jonas Matauschek, Lena Richter, Nicolas Rossi. Throughout a number of semesters they organized discursive event formats, such as film screenings, lectures and workshops.

Persons

Nick Teplov

http://www.nickteplov.com

Born and raised in St.Petersburg. Studied fine art, graphic arts and graphic design in St.Petersburg and Burg Giebichenstein Art School Halle. Works as freelance designer for cultural institutions, makes print graphics, artist books and experimental short films. Graduate of the Werkleitz Professional Media Master Class 2013 and PMMC Lab 2018/19.

Jana Keuchel

Jana Magdalena Keuchel is a filmmaker and artist. Her works have received several awards, i.a. the Basler Film Award and the ZDFneo Award of the International Short Film Festival Hamburg. She worked as a lecturer at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Liberia Film Institute, Werkleitz Centre for Media Art and University Basel. She graduated from Bauhaus-University Weimar, the PMMC, PMMC Lab and was a participant of Berlinale Talents. Currently she lives and works in Leipzig.

Jonas Matauschek

Jonas Matauschek was born in 1987 in Dresden and studied photography in the class of Peter Piller at the HGB Leipzig and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. During his studies he received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung and was recieved the title of master student in 2018. In 2013 and 2015/16 he participated in the PMMC-programme of the Werkleitzgesellschaft. He was also a lecturer at the Abendakademie at the HGB Leipzig from 2017 to 2018 and took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus. He works currently as a filmmaker and photographer in Leipzig.

Ginan Seidl

http://ginanseidl.net/en/

Raised in Berlin, she studied sculpture in Halle, Berlin and Mexico City. 2012 she participated in the Professional Media Master Class, 2015/16 at the PMMC Lab by the Werkleitz e. V. In 2018 she attended the Berlinale Talents. She received several awards for her artistic work and residency grants for Istanbul (Turkey), San Luís Potosi (Mexico) and Beirut (Lebanon). She is currently working on two long documentary films funded by MDM and/or BKM. She works in Halle/Saale, Berlin and Mexico City.

Kathrin Lemcke

http://filmpassenger.net

Kathrin Lemcke studied media art at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale) and at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts in Jerusalem with Ute Hörner, Michaela Schweiger, Avi Mograbi, Tomer Heymann a.o. In 2011 she participated in the Professional Media Master Class (PMMC) of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft and in 2015-2017 in the PMMC Lab.

It was in this context that she made her latest film She works hard. In her works, she is interested in the interaction of biography and contemporary history, often using time shifts and changes in perspective. She lives in Leipzig and currently works as a production manager at Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH and as a freelance producer of video art and documentary films.

Anna Friedrich

https://vimeo.com/annalysiserror

Documentary filmmaker and author, based in Leipzig and in the surrounding countryside. Self-Education after high school, participance in several Workshops, such as with D.O.P. Diego Romero Suarez Llanos. 2012 Participation in the One Year Documentary Education Programe “Professional Media Masterclass“ in Halle (Saale). 2013 Participation in the One Year Film Programe “TP2 Talentpool“. 2014-2015 Development and Shooting of the Pilot Season for Web Series “Stories from Reality”. 2015-2020 Arabic Studies at Leipzig University. Therein Sejours in Alexandria (Egypt) and Sweden. Annas films take a look at the thin line between fact and fiction, often meandering around questions of identiy construction and the connections between biography and place.

Clara Wieck

http://www.clarawieck.de

Clara Wieck studied media art at the HGB Leipzig following her studies in ethnology and indology. She also participated in the Werkleitz Professional Media Master Class, the PMMC Lab and the Berlinale Talents. At the intersection of science and art, the documentary and subjective viewpoint meet in her works. Free in form, her films and installations are experiments in which she attempts to speak about the world using the means of montage and image design, far removed from the grammar of commercial media. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between narrative and representation as well as the role of fiction and poetry in every kind of storytelling - even in the supposedly "documentary" formats.

Juliane Jaschnow

http://julianejaschnow.de

Filmmaker and artist. Fine Arts studies with focus on photography and expanded cinema at the HGB Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Studies in communication and media sciences from Leipzig University, scholarship at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Graduate of the Professional Media Master Class and the PMMC Lab, and participant of the Berlinale Talents 2020.

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Stefanie Schroeder

http://schroederstefanie.de

Born and grown up in Weimar. Studied art history and art education in Greifswald, co-founded and co-organised the WBS 70 (Elektro Pröger) there. Moved to HGB Leipzig to study photography. Since 2014 diploma and freelancer. During HGB studies guest student at Villa Arson, Nice/France. Graduate of PMMC 2014 and PMMC Lab 2015/16. 2018 scholarship stay at the Museumsquartier Vienna. Develops since 2018 together with Emerson Culurgioni the experimental documentary LA DUNA as part of the MDM Pilot Program.

Johannes Krell

After studying philosophy and art history at the MLU Halle, he studied audiovisual media (camera) in Berlin. During his studies he realized various productions in the experimental, music and short film sector. In 2013 he was a participant of the "Professional Media Masterclass" as part of a Werkleitz scholarship. In 2018, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with his graduation film UMBRA (Fischer/Krell 2019). He currently lives and works in Leipzig.

Emerson Culurgioni

Emerson Culurgioni studied art in Bolzano and Leipzig, travelled in Europe and the USA for his research. He is co-founder of the Filmische Initiative Leipzig, 2012. In 2013 and 2015/17 he participated in the Professional Media Masterclass Program for artistic documentary-film at the werkleitz Gesellschaft in Halle. In 2018 he completed his title of Meisterschüler in Clemens von Wedemeyer’s Ex-Cinema class. Since April 2019, together with Stefanie Schroeder, he’s a participant in the MDM Pilot-Program with the feature-documentary film LA DUNA. He lives and works in Leipzig and hopes at some point to reconcile his film and art practice with his desire to be more politically active.

Andrea Rüthel

is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Leipzig. Her practice includes experimental documentaries, technocritical video essays and inclusive web projects. She graduated from Bauhaus University, Leipzig University and the Professional Media Master Class for artistic documentary film at werkleitz Centre for Media Art in Halle (S.). In FILZ, she is in the curation team of the video art space .mpeg in Leipzig.

Florian Fischer

http://flofischer.de

Florian Fischer studied Communication Design, Photography and Image Science. In 2011 he participated in the Professional Media Master Class (PMMC) of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft and in 2015-2017 in the PMMC Lab. His artistic works include photography and film. Fischer was a fellow of Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and lives currently in Leipzig.

Katharina Wittmann

https://vimeo.com/kathiwittmann

Filmmaker. Graduated in Media Art at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig und in Cultural Studies at University Hildesheim. Semester abroad in Finland. Graduate of the werkleitz Professional Media Master Class for documentary film 2014. Lives and works in Leipzig.

Network

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