Romuald Karmakar
*1965 in Wiesbaden, DE.
Filmography:
19 Clips for 19 Days
90 min, online project, USA 2013, WP: vimeo.com, February 13, 2013
Director, producer, editor, cinematographer
Angriff auf die Demokratie – Eine Intervention (Democracy Under Attack – An Intervention)
102 min, video documentary, Germany 2012, WP: Berlin In. Film Festival, Panorama, 2012
Director, producer, editor
Die Herde des Herrn (The Flock of the Lord)
80 min, video documentary, Germany 2011, WP: Venice Int. Film Festival, Orizzonti, 2011
Director, producer, co-editor, cinematographer
Esel mit Schnee (Donkey with Snow)
4 min, video documentary, Germany 2010, WP: Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival, 2011
Director, producer, editor, cinematographer
Früchte des Vertrauens (Fruits of Confidence) by Alexander Kluge
360 min, DVD project, Germany 2009, DVD release: November 2009, Suhrkamp Filmedition
Director, research, conception of the segment: Ein Mann Unseres Vertrauens:
Ralf Otterpohl, Wasserspezialist
25 min, video documentary, Germany 2008
Villalobos
110 min, video documentary, Germany 2009, WP: Venice Int. Film Festival, Orizzonti, 2009
Director, producer, co-editor, co-cinematographer
Deutschland 09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (Germany 09 – 13 short films on
the state of the nation)
151 Min, 35mm episode film, Germany 2009, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Competition, 2009
Director, co-editor, research, conception of the segment: Ramses
12 min, 35 mm, documentary
24h Berlin by Volker Heise
24 h, TV documentary, Germany 2008, TV premiere: September 5, 2009
Director, research, conception of the segments: DJ Ricardo Villalobos
Approx. 60 min, video documentary
Hamburger Lektionen (Hamburg Lectures)
134 min, video documentary, Germany 2006, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Panorama, 2006; IP: Vancouver Int. Film Festival 2006, Theatrical release: September 20, 2007
Director, producer, co-editor, co-writer, research, conception
Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea
90 min, video documentary, Germany 2005, WP: Locarno Int. Film Festival, Video Competition, 2005
Director, producer, cinematographer, co-editor
Land der Vernichtung (Land of Annihilation)
140 min, video documentary, Germany 2003, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Panorama, 2004
Director, producer, cinematographer, co-editor, research, conception
Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder (Nightsongs)
95 min, 35 mm feature film, Germany 2003, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Competition, 2004
Theatrical release: February 19, 2004
Director, producer, co-writer
Die Nacht von Yokohama (The Night of Yokohama)
15 min, video documentary, Germany 2002
WP: Viennale 2003; GP: Duisburger Filmwoche 2003
Director, producer, cinematographer
196 BPM
62 min, video documentary, Germany 2002, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Forum, 2003
Director, producer, cinematographer, co-editor
Das Himmler-Projekt (The Himmler Project)
182 min, video documentary, Germany 2000, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Forum, 2000
IP: Locarno Int. Film Festival, Video Competition, 2000
Director, producer, co-writer, co-editor, research, conception
Manila
117 min, 35mm feature film, Germany 1999, IP: Locarno Int. Film Festival, Competition, 2000
Theatrical release: June 22, 2000
Director, producer, co-writer
Das Frankfurter Kreuz (Frankfurt Millennium)
60 min, 35mm TV feature film, Germany/France, 1997, WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Panorama, 1998
Director, co-writer
Der Totmacher (The Deathmaker)
112 min, 35mm feature film, 1995, WP: Venice Int. Film Festival, Competition, 1995
Theatrical release: November 20, 1995
Director, producer, co-writer
Infight
47 min, video TV documentary, Germany 1994, TV premiere: November 20, 1994
Director, producer, research, conception
Der Tyrann von Turin (The Tyrann of Torino)
28 min, S-8/video documentary, Germany 1989-94, WP: Pesaro Int. Film Festival, 2001
Director, producer, writer, S-8 camera, research, conception
Warheads
180 min, 16mm documentary, Germany/France, 1989-92, WP: Locarno Int. Film Festival, 1992; GP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Forum, 1993
Director, co-editor, Hi-8 camera, research, conception
Demontage IX, Unternehmen Stahlglocke (Demontage IX – Operation Steelbell)
25 min, 16mm documentary, Germany 1991, WP: Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival, Int. Competition, 1991
Director, producer, co-editor
München-Berlin-München – Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen (Munich-Berlin-Munich – The filmcritic Michael Althen)
12 min, video TV documentary, Germany 1991, TV premiere: February 28, 1991
Director, producer, conception
Sam Shaw on John Cassavetes
25 min, video documentary, Germany 1990, TV premiere: June 15, 1993
Director, producer, co-editor, cinematographer, research, conception
MIXWIX by Herbert Achternbusch
90 min, 35 mm feature film, Germany 1989
Assistant director
Hunde aus Samt und Stahl (Dogs Of Velvet And Steel)
57 min, 16mm documentary, Germany 1989, WP: Barcelona Int. Film Festival, 1989
Director, producer, co-editor, research, conception
Mappa Master – Hartmut Geerken, Autorenbuchhandlung (Author’s Bookshop)
69 min, videodocument, Germany 1989
Director, producer, conception
Gallodrome
12 min, 16mm documentary, Germany 1988, WP: Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival, 1989
Director, producer, co-editor, research, conception
Hellman Rider (Co-director Ulrich von Berg)
40 min, video documentary, Germany 1988, WP: Amiens Int. Film Festival, 1989
Director, producer, cinematographer, research, conception
Coup de Boule
8 min, 16mm (S-8 blow up) documentary, Germany 1987,
WP: Berlin Int. Film Festival, Panorama, 1987
Director, producer, co-editor, S-8 camera
Eine Freundschaft in Deutschland (A Friendship in Germany)
70 min, S-8 docufiction, Germany 1985, WP: Werkstattkino Munich, March 1, 1985
Director, producer, editor, S-8 camera, actor, research, conception
Einsame Cowboys (Lonesome Cowboys) by Anatol Nitschke
18 min, S-8 experimental, Germany 1984
Actor
Candy Girl
14 min, S-8 experimental, Germany 1984
WP: Pesaro Int. Film Festival, 2001
Director, producer, editor, S-8 camera
Radio plays:
Na, Hören Sie Doch Mal Auf Zu Grinsen! – Fragmente des Stammheim-Prozesses
(Well, Just Stop Smirking! – Fragments of the Stammheim Trial)
51 min, Germany 2008, Broadcast: November 23, 2008 (West German Radio)
Co-director, co-writer
Das Warheads-Oratorium (The Warheads Oratorio)
66 min, Germany 1997, Broadcast: November 28, 1997 (Bavarian Public Radio 2)
Co-director, co-writer
Nacht Über Gospič (Night over Gospič)
41 min, Germany 1993, Broadcast: July 2, 1993 (Bavarian Public Radio 2)
Director, writer
Honors and awards:
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since 2009 |
Member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts |
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since 1997 |
Karmakar Archive/Collection at Deutsches Filminstitut/Filmmuseum Frankfurt, DE |
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2013 |
German Pavilion, 55th Art Biennale, Venice, IT |
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2012 |
Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (until May 2013) Member of the Jury, art competition for the “NS-Dokumentationszentrum München“, DE |
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2011 |
Jury President of “Dialogue en perspective” at Perspektive Deutsches Kino, section of the Berlin Int. Film Festival, DE |
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2010 |
Retrospective at the Jeonju Int. Film Festival, KR Retrospective at the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, AT Hommage at Diagonale, The Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, AT |
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2008 |
“Das Himmler-Projekt” is elected to the “MoMA Highlights” list as one of “250 important works of art that have been made, and acquired by the Museum since 1980”, New York, USA Retrospective, BAFICI (Buenos Aires Int. Film Festival for Independent Cinema), AR |
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2007 |
Member of the International Jury, 60th Locarno Int. Film Festival, CH Tribute, Cinema du Réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR |
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2006 |
3sat Award for Best German Language Documentary, “Hamburger Lektionen,” Duisburger Filmwoche, DE |
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2005 |
ARTE Documentary Award for Best German Documentary, “Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea,” Duisburger Filmwoche, DE “Mention Speciale”, for Between “The Devil and the Wide Blue Sea”, Locarno Int. Film Festival, CH |
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2004 |
Retrospective, Munich Film Museum, DE |
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2002 |
Tribute with 8 films at the American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, USA Adolf-Grimme-Award Spezial, for “Das Himmler-Projekt”, Marl, DE |
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2001 |
Retrospective, Pesaro Int. Film Festival, IT |
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2000 |
3sat Award for Best German language Documentary, for “Das Himmler-Projekt”, Duisburger Filmwoche, DE Silver Leopard, for “Manila” , Locarno Int. Film Festival, CH Bavarian Film Award, Best Script, for “Manila”, DE |
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1996 |
German National Film Award in Gold, Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, for “Totmacher”, DE |
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1995 |
Nominated for the European Film Award, Young Film, for “Totmacher” Hessian Film Award, for “Totmacher”, DE Coppa-Volpi-Award, Best Actor, for “Totmacher”, Venice Int. Film Festival, IT |
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1991 |
Best German Short Film, for “Demontage IX, Unternehmen Stahlglocke”, Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival, DE Advancement Award (Förderpreis) of the City of Munich, for “Demontage IX, Unternehmen Stahlglocke” |
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1989 |
Tribute at the Max-Ophüls Film Festival, Saarbrücken, DE Tribute at the Munich Filmmuseum, DE |
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Publications:
- Good Bye Fassbinder! Le cinéma allemand depuis la réunification. Pierre Gras (author), Actes Sud, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 2011 / Kino in Bewegung. Perspektiven des deutschen Gegenwartsfilms. Thomas Schick, Tobias Ebbrecht (eds.), VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011
- Romuald Karmakar. Olaf Möller, Michael Omasta (eds.), FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen 13, 2010
- Bilder hinter den Worten – Über Romuald Karmakar. Tobias Ebbrecht, Verbrecher Verlag, 2010
- Romuald Karmakar. Manila – Das Filmbuch. Bodo Kirchhoff (ed.), Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 2000
More information:
http://www.romuald-karmakar.de
http://mubi.com/cast_members/63042