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Nathalie David
artist, scriptwriter, editor & director
born in France, lives in Hamburg and Berlin 


Studied Fine Art at the Villa Arson in Nice and the HfbK Hamburg. Institut des Hautes Études IHE Ponthus Hultén in Paris and visual communication in Hamburg. She is a recipient of the Hamburg-Stipend. In 2003/2004 she received a one-year fellowship at the Potsdam-Babelsberg HFF, Berlin. Since 2003, David has created film portraits of artists and collectors for museums and cultural institutions, describing her work as “at the intersection of exhibition and catalog. 2009, she founds PITCHOUNPRODUCTION. PITCHOUNE means tiny in Provençal language.
As an artist, she thinks in terms of various media – in particular film. Her works include documentaries on art, radio dramas, photography and drawings.


– WHAT's up –

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

Sa, 25th January 2025
Astor Film Lounge Berlin
Kurfürstendamm 225, 10719 Berlin

Join the screening of “Harald Naegeli – The Zurich Sprayer” at the Astor Film Palace in Berlin, followed by a discussion with its director, Nathalie David.

PRIX DU JURY!

Festival Lambert Ciné Arts 2024

We are thrilled to announce that our documentary on Harald Naegeli, the Zurich Sprayer, has won the Prix du Jury at a the French documentary festival Ambert Ciné Arts in Auvergne !

 

MEET THE ARTIST

Villa Aurora LA | December 7, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (PST)

Reception with our current artists-in-residence Salwa Aleryani (Visual Artist), Viktoria Binschtok (Visual Artist), Pan Daijing (Composer and Artist), Nathalie David (Filmmaker) & Sharon Dodua Otoo (Novelist)…

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SCREENING: HARALD NAEGELI THE SPRAYER FROM ZURICH

Wed, 11/20/2024
7:00 PM
Goethe Institut Los Angeles

Join us on Wednesday, November 20th, @ 7:00 PM at the Goethe-Institut for a special screening of the film HARALD NAEGELI – The Zürich Sprayer, followed by a discussion with Villa Aurora Fellow Nathalie David and the LA  Graffiti artist  Hector HEX Rios…

VILLA AURORA ​

GRANT RECIPIENT | 2024

Nathalie David’s project is a film about the poet, collector, architect, and patron of the arts Edward James, who lived in Los Angeles from 1940 to 1962 (from 1946 mostly as a visitor). There he was friends with, among others, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Ruth Ford, and Jack Larson, but he also socialized with Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Igor Stravinsky…

EDWARD JAMES

WORK IN PROGRESS

Edward James (1907-1984) was an eccentric, a poet, an art collector and an early patron of the Surrealist movement. He was the illegitimate grandson of King Edward VII. He as a multi-millionaire, he gave support to such Surrealist artists as the young Dali and Magritte, Leonora Carrington and others, when they were still unknown…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUBERT FICHTE!

OPENING 21.03.2025

On 21 March 2025, Hubert Fichte would have turned 90. On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky in Hamburg, which administers almost the entire estate of Hubert Fichte, is offering me the opportunity to do an exhibition on him…