DEMONTAGE IX, UNTERNEHMEN STAHLGLOCKE

Romuald Karmakar

Romuald Karmakar (Weisbaden, Germany, 1965), over the course of his thirty-year career, has received numerous awards, such as the Coppa Volpi in Venice and the German National Film Award for his feature-length Der Totmacher (1996), and the Silver Leopard in Locarno for Manila (1999). He has also received retrospectives at important cultural institutions and festivals, including the Centre Pompidou in 2006, Cinéma du réel in 2007 and at the 2008 BAFICI. A member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin since 2009, that same year MoMA honored him with a screening of his documentary Das Himmler Projekt (2000) and in 2013 he participated at the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He has recently completed an artist’s residency at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

FILMOGRAFIA

Eine Freundschaft in Deutschland (1985), Hellman Rider (coregia/codirector Ulrich von Berg, cm, doc., 1988), Gallodrome (cm, doc., 1988), Hunde aus Samt und Stahl (doc., 1989), Warheads (doc., 1993), Inflight (doc., 1994), Der Tyran von Turin (cm, doc., 1994), Der Totmacher (1995), Das Himmler Projekt (doc., 2000), Manila (2000), 196 bpm (doc., 2003), Land der Vernichtung (doc., 2004), Die Nacht singt irhe Lieder (2004), Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea (doc., 2004), Hamburger Lektionen (doc., 2006), Villalobos (doc., 2009), Die Herde des Herrn (doc., 2011).