FILMMAKER
TAMARA WYSS
FILMEMACHERIN
| Films | ||
| 2009/10 | "Victor Segalen - Expedition in das Reich der Mitte" (Victor Segalen - Expedition in the Middle Kingdom); about Victor Segalens journey into Sichuan,
with Maria Zinfert, 60 mins. for arte.Fotos |
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| 2005-09 | "Sammeln, Erinnern" (Collecting, Remembering). Longterm observational documentary about an ethnographic museum. | |
| 2000-04 | "Die chinesischen Schuhe" (The Chinese Shoes). 104 mins, cinema release, arte Grand Format, other German TV Channels and Medienboard BB, MFG and the CICC, Beijing. | |
| 1997 | "Kleine Leute, grosse Geschichte" (Little People, Big History) 30 mins., for SFB. | |
| 1994/95 | "Glasspictures and Crocodile", 45 mins., funded by Southern Arts. | |
| 1989/90 | "Auf der Suche nach Herrn Moses" (Searching for Mr Moses), 60 mins., ZDF. | |
| 1989-91 | "Nachrichten vom Land" (News from the Countryside), 85 mins., Hessische Filmförderung. |
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| 1985 | "We Help People Live, We Help People Die", 25 mins. Central TV, G.B. | |
| 1982/83 | "Zwischen Leid und Lachen" (Between Pain and Laughter), 45 mins.; "Wasser einmal am Tag", (Water once a Day), 45 mins., WDR. |
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| 1975-78 | "Die landwirtschaftliche Kooperative von Santana" (The agricultural Cooperative of Santana) 90 mins. "Vom Land leben" (To Live of the Earth), 45 mins. "Ein Dorfgericht" (A Village Tribunal), 50 mins.
"Ein ehemaliges Konzentra-tionslager" (A Formar Concentration Camp) 15 mins. All films shot in Santiago, Cape Verde Islands; together with Sophie Kotanyi and Günter Heidrich. |
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| 1976/77 | "Wird Shoreh zu Ende studieren?" (Will Shoreh finish her studies?) "Multinationaler Kindergarten" each 30 mins., NDR; TV-Magazine on war-books and young people, HR. | |
| 1975 | "Wir werden für Ungelernte ausgebildet" (Trained to be Unskilled) 2 parts, each 30 mins., for WDR. | |
| 1974 | "Wir sind hier der Kinder wegen" (We are here for our children) 60/45 mins., final year film at Filmschool, shown on TV - NDR. | |
| 1973 | "Analytische Arbeitsplatzbewertung"( on wages in industry) together with Brigitte Krause, 45 mins. | |
| 1972 | "Warum Barbara in’s Heim kommt" (Why Barbara comes into care) 20 mins., fiction, with Barbara Sukowa. | |
| I also did camera work and editing for a number of other films not listed here. | ||
| Awards, Festivals: Senate of Berlin, "Künstlerinnen Förderung" 2007; "Film des Monats" ("Film of the Month"), for :"Zwischen Leid und Lachen" and "Wasser einmal am Tag" 1984. "Solidaritätspreis" in Leipzig International Documentary Filmfestival for "Die Kooperative von Santana" (1978). Festivals e.g.: Cinema du Reel, Cinema Ethnographique; Margaret Mead New York, Tyneside Newcastle , Figuera das Foz Portugal; Mannheim and Duisburg in Germany; Internationale Hofer Filmtage, Rhodos. |
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| CV |
| Training at the German National Film School in Berlin (DFFB). Independent documentary film-maker since 1974; Worked also as a camera-person, photographer and editor. Visiting Lecturer in Germany and Britain and in a media project on the Cape Verde Islands. Two solo photographic exhibitions as well as exhibitions with historic photographs, taken by my grandparents in China. Some publications. MA (Distinction, Oxford Brookes) with dissertation on women’s images in documentary film in the GDR. Languages: German, English; Working knowledge: French, Portuguese (Creol) and Spanish. Some knowledge: Chinese. Long term stays in Cape Verde Islands (1980-82) and Great-Britain (1984-2000). |