curator, filmmaker
director of Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
films / artistic projects (selection)
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ETERNAL BEAUTY |
2003/2004, 91min, documentary |
IMAGO |
1997, video installation (1 screen, 2 monitors), BMG-Halle, Braunschweig, Germany |
DENKMAL DER ERMORDETEN JUDEN EUROPAS |
1995, Entwurf |
DIE BILDER |
1994, 24 min, experimental film |
HEIMAT :/: VISION |
1993, architectural project, Baumgarten-award (with Anet Scheuer) |
2 LINIEN |
1990, 3 min, experimental film |
ERINNERUNGSBILD I-III |
1989, 5 min, experimental film |
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curatorial projects (selection) |
exhibition program
Edith-Russ-Haus since 2015 |
artistic director & curator (with Edit Molnár) |
Capture All
transmediale 2015 |
curator film & video |
Doppelgänger
Werkleitz Festival 2014 |
curator film (with Luc-Carolin Ziemann) |
afterglow
transmediale 2014 |
curator film & video |
Avoiding Utopias
Werkleitz Festival 2013 |
artistic director (with Daniel Herrmann) |
The Cinema of the Republics
Arsenal Berlin 2013 |
11 programs with films from the Soviet Union |
BWPWAP
transmediale 2013 |
curator film & video |
transmediale.tv
ARTE Creative 2012 |
12 films online, curator |
werkleitz.tv
ARTE Creative 2012 |
12 films online, curator |
in/compatible
transmediale 2012 |
curator video |
Pet in the Net
Werkleitz Festival 2011 |
online program with 50 films (with Cord Riechelmann) |
Zoo
Werkleitz Festival 2011 |
9 thematic film programs (with Cord Riechelmann) |
Shooting Animals
Oberhausen 2011 |
12 thematic film programs (with Cord Riechelmann) |
Watching Them
Sharjah Biennial
| thematic film program |
RESPONSE:ABILITY
transmediale 2011 |
curator film & video |
Fear in the Black Box
Trafo Gallery, Budapest |
curator (with Edit Molnár) |
Fear Has Big Eyes
Werkleitz Festival 2010 |
co-conception & curator film |
Profile: Amit Dutta
Oberhausen 2010 |
2 film programs |
FUTURITY NOW!
transmediale 2010 |
curator film & video |
If you ever have the blues...
Tate Modern |
film program |
Melting Fridges part 1 & part 2
transmediale.09 |
2 thematic film programs (with Florian Wüst) |
AMERIKA
Werkleitz Festival 2008 |
artistic director, curator film & Online Film Program mit 30 Werken |
A Decade Called 'X'
part 1 & part 2
transmediale.08 |
2 programs with films of the 1950's |
Lux
Max Ophüls Preis 2008 |
2 film programs with young artists from German speaking countries |
Don't Look Back! Children, Childhood, Cinema
Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2007 |
6 thematic film programs |
Lux
Max Ophüls Preis 2007 |
2 film programs with young artists from German speaking countries |
Happy Believers
Werkleitz Biennial 2006 |
co-director |
The Fallen Curtain
Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005 |
15 thematic film programs
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Common Property
Werkleitz Biennial 2004 |
co-conception |
real[work] Werkleitz Biennial 2000 |
co-conception / curator film & video (with Florian Wüst) |
Update 2.0 - Medien Kunst Aktuell aus Deutschland |
2000, Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Institute) & ZKM (co-curator) |
sub fiction
Werkleitz Biennial 1998 |
co-conception |
Cluster Images
Werkleitz Biennial 1996 |
curator film (with Bjørn Melhus) |
German-Russian Experimental Film Festival |
1995, Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Institute), tv_gallery & Film Museum Moscow (with Nina Zaretskaya) |
Violence in the Media |
1995, a series of 16 screenings/lectures by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig & Europa-Union Germany (with Birgit Hein, Helmut Korte & Peter Zorn) |
Aesthetics and Ideology in the German Fascist Film |
1993, a series of 14 screenings/lectures by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig & Europa-Union Germany (with Birgit Hein) |
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Work |
since 2016 |
lectureship curatorial practice, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
since 2015 |
director Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg (with Edit Molnár) |
2012-2014 |
advisor B3-Biennial, Frankfurt/Main |
2010-2015 |
curator film & video transmediale, Berlin |
2009-2011 |
founder and artistic director Arab Shorts, Cairo |
2007 & 2008 |
member international commission (guest)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen |
2001-2019 |
board of directors Werkleitz Gesellschaft |
1999 |
lectureship film/video, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg |
1996-2007
| co-founder and editor of cinovid.org - database for experimental film and video art
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1996
| co-founder Werkleitz Biennial
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since 1995 |
screenings and lectures, mostly for the Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Institute), in Amsterdam, Athens, Belgrade, Bombay, Budapest, Cairo, Casablanca, Ekatarinburg, Glasgow, Helsinki, Kyoto, Lodz, Mexico City, Moscow, Omsk, Nizhny Novgorod, New Delhi, Novi Sad, Novosibirsk, Paris, Ramallah, Riga, Samara, San Luis Potosi, Seoul, Skopje, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Tallinn, Tartu, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Utrecht, Vilnius, Yamagata, Zagreb and other cities |
since 1992 |
lectures about national socialistic film and experimental film at: Royal College, London; Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaften, Karlsruhe; Gasteig, München; Duitsland Institut, Amsterdam; n.o.where, London; Vivid, Birmingham; Villa Vigoni; Universität Zürich; KHM Köln; HfG Offenbach; Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle; Hochschule der Künste Berlin; Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin; Museum Ludwig Cologne; and others |
Studies |
1997 |
master class of Birgit Hein |
1996 |
diploma fine arts (film class) und media sciences, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig |
1987-1990 |
studies aesthetics and film (Freie Universität Berlin and Hochschule der Künste, Berlin) |
1987 |
examinated as photographer at Lette-Verein, Berlin |
1984-1985 |
studies political science, sociology and photography, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
Bio |
1965 |
born in Germany |
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Contact
Marcel Schwierin
Ratsherr-Schulze-Str. 11
26122 Oldenburg
Germany
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