Heiko Kalmbach
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Berlin Germany |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Born in the Black Forest in Germany, Heiko Kalmbach is a director and video artist based in Berlin and New York. He has been creating short films and videos since 1994. His award winning pieces have screened at Festivals like Oberhausen, Sao Paulo and South By Southwest. In the early Nineties, after his Civil Service, Heiko Kalmbach worked with German Off-Theater Companies as an actor and director. Since 2003 he has reengaged with live performance. Filmography/Awards Info: WHY MAKE THINGS? Writer/Director/Producer, Documentary featuring photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, 70min. USA / UK / Germany, 2008 KAUFHAUS KNAST (for DMAX / Discovery Channel Europe) Co-Writer, 45 min. documentary, spoonfilm, 2007 STAY HONEST & CREATURE DESIGNER (for DMAX / Discovery Channel Europe) Writer/Director of two 4 minute docomentaries, spoonfilm, 2006 DER MEXIKANER Video, 1min., Germany, 2006, International Short Film Festival Hamburg CONTROLLED Single Channel Video, USA / UK / Germany, 2004, PILOT:1 International Artforum London VIDEO-PEACE / NUR WENN MAN SICH NICHT BEMÜHT Video Installation in construction container, Germany, 2004, Theaterhaus Jena, opening of season 2004/05 A-LIEN & B-LIEN (by Jörg Daiber) Editor for children’s TV-show for PBS Germany, 2003 CLONE STORY Editor, 52 min., Documentary on human cloning, Babelfishproductions NY Coproduction for TV Switzerland, Canada and France, 2002 IMRE KERTESZ PORTRAIT Editor, 12 min., Documentary Portrait for YIVO Institute New York, 2002 LOWER EAST BIOGRAPHY PROJECT: EDGAR OLIVER Writer/Director, Documentary Portrait, spoonfilm / LES Bio project, dv, 14:30 min., USA, 2001 ABC No Rio, NYC, USA / Pioneer Theater, NYC, USA NEW YORK IS DISAPPEARING Writer/Director, Narrative Short, spoonfilm, 16mm, color, 11 min., USA / Germany, 2000 Festival selection: South By Southwest Film Festival, Austin, USA / International Short Film Festival Oberhausen / New York Lower East Side Film Festival, USA (directors’ prize for most original short) / International Short Film Festival São Paulo, Brazil / One Reel Film Festival Seattle, USA / Young Collection, Bremen / New Filmmakers, NY / Next Frame Philadelphia, USA / Art in General, NY, USA / Pandaemonium at The Lux Centre, London, England / Independent Exposure, Seattle, USA / Toronto University, Canada / Out Fest Los Angeles, USA CHARLES IMPOSSIBLE FORD Documentary, 1997, Beta SP, Super 8, USA, 9 min., USA, 1997 First Run Film Festival, New York, USA / Academy of Arts Berlin, Germany CONVERSATION WITH A STRANGER Narrative, 16mm, b/w, 12 min., USA, 1996, collaboration w. S. Lambert, C. Gurholt, N. Veis and T. Hilchey Kort Film Festivalen pa Grimsted, Norway SCANNER Narrative, 16mm, b/w, 3 min., USA, 1996, collaboration w. S. Lambert, C. Gurholt, F. Melchior, C. Petracco Trumsø Film Festival, Oslo / Kort Film Festivalen par Grimstad, Norway / Fleisch Filme @ Void, NY FINAL CURTAIN Video, 1 min., Germany, 1995, collaboration with Lars Theuerkauff, Academy of Arts Munich São Paulo One Minute Festival, Brazil / Circles of Confusion, Berlin, Germany / Knitting Factory, NY A MAN IS LYING IN A BATHTUB AND HIS NOSE IS STARTING TO BLEED Video, 14 min., Germany, 1995, collaboration with Lars Theuerkauff, Academy of Arts Munich Video Art Plastique, Basse-Normandie, France / Fleisch Filme @ Void, NY / MIX Festival NY, USA THE DEAD MONKEY Super-8, 5 min., Germany, 1994 Artist Resideny, Kunst:Raum Sylt Quelle, Germany, 2008 Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, 2007 Invitation to DRAMAFEST ’06, Mexico City, with VERMISST, 2006 Sitterwerk St. Gallen, Switzerland, Artist Residency, 2005 MacDowell Artist Residency, New Hampshire, USA, 2004 Nestor Almendros Award, TURTLE MONKEY, 2002 Honorable Mention, TURTLE MONKEY, Cinevue Festival, USA, 2002 Artist’s Grant for Film, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2001 Prize for Most Original Short, NEW YORK IS DISAPPEARING, 2001 Lower East Side Film Festival NY Martin Scorsese Post Production Award, 2000 Russell Hexter Filmmaker’s Award, 1999 Rotary International Scholarship, ‘Ambassador of Good Will’, 1996 Drama Award, Baden Baden City Theater, 1990 Eduard Spranger Drama Award, 1989 This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. 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