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Director Film Producer Writer DOP Editor Sound Design Visual Effects Florian Fischer

Florian Fischer combines writing, photography, design, and media art in an interdisciplinary practice. Born in Tübingen in 1981, he studied communication design, photography, and visual studies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He has been an artistic associate at Harz University of Applied Sciences since 2011 and has also taken part in the Professional Media Master Class, the PMMC Lab, and Berlinale Talents. In 2017, he received a Villa Aurora fellowship in Los Angeles. He now works independently in Leipzig. Umbra, created with Johannes Krell, won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 69th Berlinale in 2019.

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Les Rites de Passage

14 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

A cloud of ash settles softly upon the currents of a river. Light enters the heart of a tree through a myriad of tiny holes. Monoculture forests succumb to parasites and become fertile ground for forms of life still to come. A film about earthly and mythological passages through becoming and decay.

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Les Rites de Passage

Umbra

20 Min., Experimentalfilm , Kurzfilm

A shimmering light, the rustle of the leaves, round spots of light in the shade of a tree. The sun reflects on the water. It is an element and counterpart. Can nature observe itself? A cinematic reflection on the presence and absence of things.

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Umbra

Kaltes Tal

12 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Kurzfilm

KALTES TAL explores, through a dialectical lens, our relationship to nature as both a repository of raw materials and a mystical realm of possibility.

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Kaltes Tal

Last Year in Utopia

73 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Experimentalfilm

Last Year in Utopia documents an experimental set-up: a staged group media experiment, isolated from the outside world, is reconstructed on the site where the original events unfolded. The boundaries between autonomy and heteronomy dissolve in new role assignments as the film makes the power structure behind the artificially created utopia visible.

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Last Year in Utopia

CV

2017

M.A. in Bildwissenschaften, Donau-Universität Krems

2015

Professional Media Masterclass LAB / Werkleitz, Halle

2013

Teilnahme an der PMMC

2011-2016

Künstlerischer Mitarbeiter Hochschule Harz

2010

Meisterschüler von Arno Fischer (Ostkreuzschule), Berlin

2009

Diplom in Kommunikationsdesign, FH-Potsdam

2008

Austauschsemester Kunst & Medien, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

2000

Abitur, Tübingen

1981

geboren in Tübingen

Filme, Preise, Auszeichnungen

2019

Umbra – uraufgeführt bei Berlinale Shorts, wurde mit dem Goldenen Bären für den besten Kurzfilm ausgezeichnet

2018

Berlinale Talents

2017

No Sex Please – uraufgeführt bei DOK-Leipzig

2016

Kaltes Tal – Goldene Lola für den besten kurzen Dokumentarfilm

2014

Still Life – uraufgeführt bei HotDocs (Kanada)

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