MARCEL SCHWIERIN


Marcel Schwierin
Photo: Vitaliy Kiryutin


German version



Curator, filmmaker.

Editor of the internet database for experimental film and video art: cinovid

films / artistic projects (selection)

ETERNAL BEAUTY 2003/2004, 91min, documentary
IMAGO 1997, video installation (1 screen, 2 monitors), BMG-Halle, Braunschweig, Germany
DENKMAL DER ERMORDETEN JUDEN EUROPAS 1995, Entwurf
DIE BILDER 1994, 24 min, experimental film
HEIMAT :/: VISION 1993, architectural project, Baumgarten-award (with Anet Scheuer)
2 LINIEN 1990, 3 min, experimental film
ERINNERUNGSBILD I-III 1989, 5 min, experimental film

curatorial projects (selection)

transmediale.tv
ARTE Creative
curator (since 2012)
werkleitz.tv
ARTE Creative
curator (since 2012)
in/compatible
transmediale 2012
curator video
Arab Shorts 2011
Cairo Festival & Films Online
artistic director
Pet in the Net
Werkleitz Festival 2011
online film programme (with Cord Riechelmann)
Zoo
Werkleitz Festival 2011
9 thematic film programs (with Cord Riechelmann)
Shooting Animals
Oberhausen 2011
12 thematic film programs (with Cord Riechelmann)
Watching Them
Sharjah Biennial
thematic film program
RESPONSE:ABILITY
transmediale.11
curator film & video
Fear in the Black Box
Trafo Gallery, Budapest
curator (with Edit Molnár)
Arab Shorts 2010
Cairo Festival & Films Online
artistic director
Fear Has Big Eyes
Werkleitz Festival 2010
co-conception & curator film
Profile: Amit Dutta
Oberhausen 2010
2 film programs
FUTURITY NOW!
transmediale.10
curator film & video
Arab Shorts 2009
Cairo Festival & Films Online
concept & artistic director
If you ever have the blues...
Tate Modern
film program
Melting Fridges
part 1 & part 2
transmediale.09
2 thematic film programs (with Florian Wüst)
AMERIKA
Werkleitz Festival 2008
artistic director, curator film & Online Film Programme
A Decade Called 'X'
part 1 & part 2
transmediale.08
2 programs with films of the 1950's
Lux
Max Ophüls Preis 2008
2 film programs with young artists from German speaking countries
Don't Look Back!
Children, Childhood, Cinema

Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2007
6 thematic film programs
Lux
Max Ophüls Preis 2007
2 film programs with young artists from German speaking countries
Happy Believers
Werkleitz Biennial 2006
co-director
The Fallen Curtain
Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005
15 thematic film programs
Common Property
Werkleitz Biennial 2004
co-conception
real[work]
Werkleitz Biennial 2000
co-conception / curator film & video
(with Florian Wüst)
Update 2.0 - Medien Kunst Aktuell aus Deutschland 2000, Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Institute) & ZKM
(co-curator)
sub fiction
Werkleitz Biennial 1998
co-conception
Cluster Images
Werkleitz Biennial 1996
curator film
(with Bjørn Melhus)
German-Russian Experimental Film Festival 1995, Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Institute), tv_gallery & Film Museum Moscow (with Nina Zaretskaya)
Violence in the Media 1995, a series of 16 screenings/lectures by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig & Europa-Union Germany (with Birgit Hein, Helmut Korte & Peter Zorn)
Aesthetics and Ideology in the German Fascist Film 1993, a series of 14 screenings/lectures by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig & Europa-Union Germany (with Birgit Hein)

CV

2007 & 2008 member international commission (guest)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
since 2001 board of directors Werkleitz Gesellschaft
1999 lectureship film/video, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
1997 master class of Birgit Hein
1996 diploma fine arts (film class) und media sciences, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
since 1995 screenings and lectures for the Goethe-Institut (German Cultural Institute) in Amsterdam, Belgrade, Bombay, Cairo, Casablanca, Ekatarinburg, Glasgow, Helsinki, Kyoto, Mexico City, Moscow, Omsk, Nizhny Novgorod, New Delhi, Novi Sad, Novosibirsk, Paris, Riga, Samara, San Luis Potosi, Seoul, Skopje, Tokyo, Tallinn, Tartu, Tunis, Vilnius, Yamagata, and other cities
since 1992 lectures about national socialistic film and experimental film at: Royal College, London; Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaften, Karlsruhe; Gasteig, München; Duitsland Institut, Amsterdam; n.o.where, London; Vivid, Birmingham; Villa Vigoni; Universität Zürich; KHM Köln; HfG Offenbach; Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle; Hochschule der Künste Berlin and others
1987-1990 studies aesthetics and film (Freie Universität Berlin and Hochschule der Künste, Berlin)
1987 examinated as photographer at Lette-Verein, Berlin
1984-1985 studies political science, sociology and photography, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
1965 born in Germany

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