pars media // films on art / film as art

<body text="#000000"> <H1>pars media // films on art / film as art</H1><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2004<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-furtwaengler">Furtwängler' s Love</A></B>, A poetical essay. Prize at "Golden Prague".<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2003<br><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-still">Still move</A></B>, dance documentary<br><a href="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-shostakovich"><b>Shostakovich: 14th quartet</b></a>, concert film/music documentary<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2002<br><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-bound">Bound</A></B>, dance film with Saburo Teshigawara<br><a href="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-grist"><b>Reri Grist</b></a> - Opera is Theatre, music documentary. Prize at the Columbus International Film Festival<br><a href="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-zero"><b>Absolute Zero</b></a>, dance film with Saburo Teshigawara. Nominated at "Dance Screen"<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2001<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-svizzers">Cumponists Svizzers</A></B>, 7 part documentary series<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2000<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-attitudes">Suite of Multiple Attitudes</A></B>, dance film<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1999<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-aida">Aida's Brothers & Sisters</A></B>, music documentary<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1998</B><br><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-fanatic">Opera Fanatic</A></B>, opera road movie. Prizes at the Munich International Documentary Festival and at the "Golden Prague" (Czech Crystal)<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1996-97</B><br><b><a href="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-belcanto">Belcanto - The Tenors of the 78 Era</a></b>, 13 part documentary series. Prizes at the Columbus International Film Festival and at "Classique en images"<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1994-95</B><br><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-bruckner">Bruckner's Decision</A></B>, feature film<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1993<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-celi2">Celibidache in St. Florian</A></B>, concert film<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1992<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-measure">Measure Color Light</A></B>, art documentary<br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>1990-92<br></b><B><A HREF="http://parsmedia.com/main/content.php?id=past-celi1">Celibidache - You don't do anything, you just let it evolve</A></B>, music documentary. Nominated for the German Film Prize, Silver Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival<br><p><p><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2004 John Baldessari<br></b><div class="kasten2">Portrait of the key figure of West Coast conceptual art, both influential as artist and as teacher to a whole generation of younger artists such as David Salle, Richard Prince, and Tony Oursler. Using unpublished footage from his 50 artist's films and many interviews with Baldessari himself and friends and colleagues such as Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner and Mike Kelley.<br><br>90 (60) min. Directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre.</div><SPAN class="gruen">A coproduction with 3SAT, SF DRS.</SPAN><br><br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2004 Sergei Nakariakov<br></b><div class="kasten2">"The Caruso of the trumpet," critics say. "Caruso? The Nakariakov of the tenor voice," they’ll say soon. Portrait of the 26-year old genius from Gorki.<br><br>60 min.: portrait, 50 min.: concert film.</div> <SPAN class="gruen">A coproduction with BR ARTE.</SPAN><br><br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2004 Joseph Schmidt - story of a short life<br></b><div class="kasten2">The story of Joseph Schmidt, born in 1904 in Czernowitz, Bukowina, a place as Paul Celan put it, where men and books lived. Schmidt was soon trained to be a cantor at the synagogue, yet he wanted to be on stage and left for Berlin, Germany. Already his first appearances in Berlin are a great success. His height of 1,52 m prohibits a career on stage. But Schmidt is lucky. The talkies are just arriving and the producers are looking for good material. And they are finding them in music. The singers were the stars of their time, they did draw an audience. There was no division between popular and operasingers yet. Joseph Schmidt, Richard Tauber and Beniamino Gigli and many others were like a mixture between Pavarotti and Robbie Williams. In the movie "A star falls from heaven" the career of the little man Joseph Schmidt is the main topic. At the same time his voice touches millions of hearts in Germany via the radio. Then the Germans elect Hitler and as history progresses, Schmidt has to flee Germany. In 1938 he travells to New York. Unfortunatly he returns to Europe, having soon to flee to Switzerland as an illegal immigrant. In Zurich he gets arrested and sent to a camp. The conditions are bearable, yet his health fails. Only 38 years old he dies in Bad Girenbad, Switzerland.<br><br>Music documentary; German 55 min.; Director: Marieke Schroeder; Camera: Martin Farkas, Thomas Bresinsky, Pascal Hoffmann; Editor: Gaby Kull-Neujahr<br><br>Featuring Joseph Schmidt, Paula Lindbergh-Salomon, Evi Panzner Kennedy, Eva Maria Seifert, Johann Schlamp et al.</div><SPAN class="gruen">In collaboration with SF DRS, 3sat, ORF , VRT and YLE<BR>Developed with the support of the Media Plus Programme of the European Union</SPAN><br><br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2004-06 Così fan tutte<br></b><div class="kasten2">Feature film.<br>An adaptation of Mozarts "Così", close to the ironical yet tragical essence of Mozart's music - less close to da Ponte's libretto. A contemporary version, stressing the aspect of the risky game played by four spoiled teenagers in their winter holidays, using masks to explore unknown erotic territories.<br><br>110 min. Directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre; Script: Joachim Bessing, Jan Schmidt-Garre<br><br>Completion for the Mozart-year of 2006.</div><SPAN class="gruen">In collaboration with T&C Film, Marcel Hoehn and SF DRS Feature film.<br>Developed with the support of the Media Plus Programme of the European Union</SPAN><br><br><br><SPAN class="gruen">//</SPAN> <b>2005 ART NOW<br></b><div class="kasten2">The thirteen portraits create a general overview of contemporary art for the audience. The features follow a uniform concept, which provides space for the artist's individuality but makes it possible for the viewer to recognize recurring elements.<br><br>An international jury of art historians and directors of museums picked thirteen artists of the younger or middle generation, who influence contemporary discourse in a substantial way. The artists are at the peak of their artistic work, the portraits will not provide retrospectives of a life's work. The artists have either started or are on the verge of launching international careers and are present at the Biennales of Venice, Johannesburg or Sao Paulo, at the Documenta as well as in museums and art collections. The artists' origins spread all over the globe, and their work ranges from classical painting and sculpture to video, cinematography, photography and installations to Land Art and action art.<br><br>13 x 30 minutes, DVD versions 60 minutes.<br><br>Pilote film:<BR>Olafur Eliasson, Denmark/Iceland, installations, Land Art. To be finished 2005.</div><SPAN class="gruen">In collaboration with ZDF/3sat.</SPAN><br><br><br><br><br> </body>