Prof. Marcel Kolvenbach
“The work is in dealing politically with images and sounds and their relationships."
(Pierre Bourdieu)
International award-winning documentary filmmaker. Travelled Latin America, Africa and Europe with his camera for 25 years. Stations in New York, Brussels and Kampala.
Author, cameraman and director of documentary formats in TV, cinema and online. Director and producer of independent, artistic auteur films under the name “publicnomad productions”.
Themes: racism, human rights, social rights, environment, nuclear power, corruption and arms exports, child soldiers, propaganda, Islamism, fake news, colonial history and indigenous movements, National Socialism.
FILMOGRAPHY AND AWARDS
Selection
2019/2020
AUF DER SUCHE NACH FRITZ KANN
Germany, Poland, Israel, Argentina
120min cinema documentary film (publicnomad productions)
PRODUCTION/CAMERA/DIRECTOR
With Reut Shemesh (choreography), Katja Rivas-Pinzón (DoP) Tessa Langhans (producer)
Funded by Filmstiftung NRW
2019/2020
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON CANCER INEQUITIES
WITH VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES IN ARGENTINA
Argentina
60min documentary film (publicnomad productions)
CAMERA/DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION
In cooperation with
- Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios
- Instituto Gino Germani
2018
SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO (CHILLY GONZALES)
France/Canada/Germany
82min cinema documentary film (RAPID EYE MOVIES)
CAMERA
director: Philipp Jedicke
* 2018 Berlinale, world premiere
2015
DÜGÜN – HOCHZEIT AUF TÜRKISCH
Germany
CAMERA / DIRECTOR
90min cinema documentary film (WDR / IFAGE / REAL FICTION)
With Ayse Kalmaz (co-director/sound)
* 2016 Dokfest film festival Munich
* 2015 Finalist Boston Turkish Festival
2014 netwars OUT OF CTRL
USA, China, Germany
CAMERA / DIRECTOR
52min TV documentary / cross-media project
(FILMTANK BERLIN / ZDF/arte)
* 2015 Grimme Online Award
* 2015 Prix Italia – Best Trans Media
* 2015 Bronze German Digital Award
* 2015 SXSW Innovation Award
2013 ATOMIC AFRICA
DR Congo, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania
CAMERA/DIRECTOR
90min documentary film (WDR / A&O BUERO)
* 2015 Environmental Investigation Award, Japan
* 2014 Nominated for the Grimme Prize
* 2014 1st prize, Green Screen Festival, Germany
* 2014 Gold World Medal Winner New York Festivals
2005 WARUM STARB OURY JALLOH?
Germany, Guinea Conacry
CAMERA/CO-AUTHOR
45min TV documentation, (WDR / A&O BUERO)
* 2007 Marl Television Award
* 2006 1st place German Human Rights Film Awards
* 2006 Nominated for Prix Europa
* 2006 Nominated for Civis Media Award
