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:: Kol Ishah |
HANNAH HEER works in film, video, mixed media, installation, cinematography and photography art. Hannah Heer's documentary film, KOL ISHAH – THE RABBI IS A WOMAN, (2010) opens a window into the world of four diverse women rabbis at the beginning of the 21st century. Hannah Heer created in collaboration with Werner Schmiedel the innovative feature length documentaries, THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE - SIMON WIESENTHAL (1995), and THE OTHER EYE (1991). THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE is about life and work of Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor, who became one of the most distiguished Jewish humanitarians of the 20th century. THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE was invited to premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York in 1995. When the ART OF REMEMBRANCE was shown at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in Los Angeles, Manohla Dargis noted in her L.A.Weekly review, "The film builds its case with quiet force and intellectual acuity". THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE was short-listed for an Academy Award in the Feature Documentary Category. THE OTHER EYE is a cinematic journey exploring the films of Austrian filmdirector G.W.Pabst through the 1920s to the 1960s. At the premiere at the New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall in 1991, the Film Society of Lincoln Center praised THE OTHER EYE as a "breakthrough documentary film" for which Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel have "evolved a rich visual language new to the documentary film, using a elaborate color structure that reflects not only various moods but different periods of time". Hannah Heer worked as well as a creative and inventive Director of Photography on feature films. Hannah Heer's lighting design and camera movements in SUGARBABY, directed by Percy Adlon, were celebrated as a major contribution to the film’s international success. SUGARBABY, photographed in Munich, and distributed in the USA by Don Krim at KINO International, was the ‘surprise- hit’ of the New York Film Festival in 1985. SUGARBABY was exhibited in over 40 countries worldwide. Annette Insdorf interviewed Hannah Heer about her "original" work for The New York Times ("In 'SUGARBABY', Style Enhances Content", Nov 17,1985), and the critic Janet Maslin wrote in her appreciative review of SUGARBABY in The New York Times, "The cinematography serves to signal an extra dimension". In the summer of 1982, Hannah Heer was invited by the Hungarian director Gabor Body to photograph his film DOG's NIGHT SONG in Budapest. Gabor Body invited her to participate in the making of DOG's NIGHT SONG, partly because of Hannah Heer's ability and interest to combine various cinematography techniques, such as 35mm Film, Video, and Super 8. When Hannah Heer returned to Budapest to supervise the color timing of the prints at the Laboratories, she also was nominated for 'Best Cinematography' at the 1983 Hungarian Film Week. The International Premiere of DOG's NIGHT SONG took place at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum) in 1983. Hannah Heer was asked by producer Klaus Maeck to photograph the film DECODER in Hamburg in the winter of 1982. DECODER premiered as well at the Berlin Film Festival (Forum) in 1984. In New York City, Hannah Heer was the Director of Photography and Producer of the classic avant-garde feature, SUBWAY RIDERS, directed by Amos Poe. SUBWAY RIDERS was chosen as 'Outstanding Film of the Year' by the British Film Institute at the London Film Festival in 1982, and was shown at numerous festivals in Europe and the USA. Hannah Heer has taught as Professor in Vienna and in New York. Besides TV screenings on three continents, Heer’s work has been invited to festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Athens (Ohio), San Francisco, Telluride, Montreal, Deauville, Cannes, London, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Figueira da Foz, Budapest, The Hague, Valladolid, Jerusalem, Sao Paulo, Bombay (Mumbai) and others. Heer's work has been shown at the American Museum of the Moving Image and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Houston, and in Colleges, Libraries, Synagogues, Galleries and Museums in the USA, in Canada and in Europe. Hannah Heer is working on several film, photography and mixed media projects. Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel are the founders of the innovative film production company River Lights Pictures, Inc., New York. |
Kol Ishah | The Art of Remembrance | The Other Eye | Gold | Subway Riders |