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Film / Funk | Musik Peter Sempel
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Black Sun Flower Film+ Fotoproduction
- Born in Hamburg 1954, half-yearold emigrated to Australia, grew up in the
outback, as a kid with own kangaroo and to school on horseback, no electricity and
no tv; and was often called ''little german nazipig'', therefore burnt down half of
the schoolhouse...;
returned after 12 years; studied at University Hamburg: literature+physical
education, hobby: opera and punkconcerts, wrote for musicmagazines(fanzines, and
Spex...),
started MUSICFILMS 1981, mainly with(and because) Underground& classical
Music, Dance and extraordinary artists, from Underground to Hollywood and back.
Most films supported by Filmfoerderung/Culture-department of CityHamburg,
(in Germany distributed by Pandora,SilverCine,now:5films Neue Visionen,+Dejavu-Filmdistr).
Often travels with+presents his films around the world, also supported by Goethe-Institute.
Since 2003 his films are shown on German art-tv: ZDF/3sat and ''ARTE''.
Also presents Foto-exhibitions and videoshows in Galleries+Cinemas, mainly independent,
sometimes museums:DeutschesFilmmuseumFrankfurt,Babylon-Berlin, Kunsthalle-Hamburg,
AnthologyFilmArchives/andCBGB,NewYork, ''Egyptian“,L.A., Hamburg:''GrosseFreiheit36'',
KunstvereinHamburg, Kunsthalle Wien, ...
Main Films:
first ''Musicfilms'', many shorts from 2 to 20min, 1981...
''KRIEGSJUGEND-SAVE THE CHILDREN'',18min, ''FRESSEN'',6min,...
„Wozu Sind Die Maenner Da?“,10min, „Der Hund Im Dunkeln“,3min,...
''Klarheit Ueber Alles'', 20min, ''Ballet und Arbeit'', 6min, ''Miss Bronx on
43rd“,10min,...
PLACE IN THE SUN/SEELE BRENNT, 6min, film+video/EinstuerzendeNeubauten
THE WILD RAVEN, 90min, 1984/85 (Premiere: MetropolisKino,Hamburg)
THE BURNING RAVEN, 90min, 1986
(doublescreen/Music: Mozart/Requiem with Einstuerzende Neubauten/Kollaps)
DANDY (BlixaBargeld, NickCave, NinaHagen, DieterMeier, Ohno...), 86min,
35mm,1988, (Int.Premiere:N.Y.''Tunnel'', with Foto-exhibition)
JUST VISITING THIS PLANET-DIE WINTERREISE, (KazuoOhno/Butoh),103min,35mm,
1991,(Prem.:Int.FilmfestivalBerlin)(zdf/3sat)
JONAS IN THE DESERT, (Jonas Mekas+his world...),
104min,16mm,1994,(Int.FilmfestBerlin, 3sat)
ALLEN GINSBERG:HUSTLER FOR LIFE ), 20min, 16mm,1998,
(Int.FilmfestivalBerlin)
(singing ''September On JessoreRoad'' from his book ''From The Fall Of
America'')
NINAHAGEN-PUNK+GLORY, 94min, 16mm,1999 /2005
(int.FilmfestivalBerlin),(zdf/3sat)
JONAS AT THE OCEAN, (Mekas,part 2), 95min, 16mm, 2003
(Kassel:Filmladen/Documenta)
LEMMY (Motoerhead),97min, 2002/2006(Int.Prem.with
Lemmy+Corey:L.A.-SilverlakeFilmfest)
KAZUO OHNO:I DANCE INTO THE LIGHT, 60min, 2004, (ZFD/ARTE),(Int.Prem.:
Paris,CentrePompidou)
(also films+fotos: DavidCarradine,
DennisHopper,WimWenders,JimJarmush,FandoArrabal,
Tulip,Die
SingendeTulpe,P.Broetzmann,PattiSmith,NickCave,DieterMeier,KennethAnger,..)
FLAMENCO MI VIDA - Knives Of The Wind, 92min, 2007/8, 35mm/digibeta,
with grant from FFHSH, Worldpremiere: Int.Filmfestival SaoPaulo, Oct.2007
Kinostart: 5/2008, Dejavu-Filmverleih, Hamburg, Spanish Premiere: Bienal de
Flamenco Sevilla, Filmforum, Oct.08
DIE BLAUE HAND (The Blue
Hand),30/20min,7/2009(DanielRichter+JonathanMeese/5hrsPainting)
Impressions Of An ArtAward, 5min, 7/2009,
(DanielRichter-Finkenwerder-kunstpreis)
DIE AMEISE DER KUNST, (Animals Of Art), Jonathan Meese+ the dictatorship of
Art, (98min.), grant/FFHSH, German Premiere: Filmfest-Hamburg,
Oct. 2010 (part2 in progress)
27.Oct. 2010: for 104.th Kazuo Ohno-birthday:Video for Antony&TheJohnsons
(The Spirit.../Swanlights)
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