2016 As a foreigner in Germany with little knowledge of the language, I never could understand the words repeated at all underground and overland train stations in Hamburg. What was I supposed to do: in or out? I was uncertain, and worried about obeying the words uttered by the dark voice of the conductor. Stay back …
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FR 2002 Les Sept Saisons, has been selected as one of the ten best films of 2002 by Image mouvement of the Centre national de la Cinématographie. The Seven Saisons by Christian Besson 2002The film opens with the voice of its director, Nathalie David: From one autumn to the next I visited various exhibitions of …
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DE 2020 https://vimeo.com/486966317 As a tribute to Jacques Brel, I co-wrote this song with Marie-Laure Timmich, for the Franco-German duo LES MARIES. It was meant to be a sad song. It’s the story of a passion. Then Les Maries asked me to do a video clip. I chose to do an animation based on the drawings …
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2020 DE/FR Director’s statement I met Elias Crespin when I was making a documentary about his grandmother, the artist GEGO, for the Kunsthalle in Hamburg. In 2019, he asked me to make a short film for his major project in the Palais du Louvre: L’Onde du Midi.From the conversation we had with the artist in his …
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DE 2007 “There is nothing new to tell about Paula Modersohn-Becker. But the way documentary filmmaker Nathalie David has arranged the long-known, often quoted material into a film about the becoming and growing of a painter is simply wonderful. David does not succumb to the fatal error of sentimentalising her life and reducing it to …
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DE 2015/2024 »Villa Flora is on its way to becoming a proper museum.« Félix Vallotton, in a letter to Hedy Hahnloser, February 1910. The Villa Flora opened as a museum on July 7th, 1995. Between 1995 and April 2014, the Villa Flora showed 24 monographic and thematic exhibitions and published 26 academic publications.During these almost …
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Diese Photographin heißt Leonore Mau DE 2005/2016 They met at the beginning of the 1960s. Hubert Fichte (1935–1986), the young and ambitious writer who made his homosexuality a matter of principle. And the architectural photographer Leonore Mau (1916–2013), who was tired of middle-class family life. An extraordinary love affair and productive artistic partnership developed, which …
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DE 2013 The film GEGO | Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Director’s statementWhen I start to think on a film, I begin with a great deal of research on the artist. This may involve catalogues and books, but also exchanges with …
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DE 2012 Director’s statementMy Dear Miss Schildt is the story of a primary school teacher and her students on the verge of major upheavals – retirement for her and starting secondary school for the children. They are spending their last class trip before the summer holidays at a farm. Surrounded by nature, far away from …
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DE/CH 2021 Documentary – 97 min. Director’s statement:Harald Naegeli is an emancipated old men. This impresses me. I am fascinated by the political aspects of his work. He is a rebel, just like his mother, for whom he has such immense respect. In the film I pursue this idea further. I am rebellious in the …
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