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• • 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)