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ANGELAS LANDSCAPES
 

I am actually a hiker ...
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"I started taking photos in all the untouched landscapes where we've always lived / I'm actually a hiker. And I always need that view into the distance, into the far away ... / Actually most actors do play one thing after another. I couldn't do that. II always have to get away. And it's into the nature where I have to go to / I have to feel the wind, have to feel the earth / And when coming back and bringing the wind with me to the stage, then I start living ..."

 

 

Video-Installation / film / book

Concept, Idea & directing: Cordelia Dvorák

Camera: Camilo Echeverri

Editing: Camilo Echeverri & Cordelia Dvorák

Photographies: Angela Winkler

Production: Paloma Films

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CHORUS OF RESISTANCE

Twelve Fragments on Freedom

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"Guys, no matter where each of us is now - in prison, in freedom, in Minsk, abroad or in a sub-marine - we continue our duty, day by day! Stay in resistance, keep fighting and go full throttle. This is a marathon and whoever has the stronger nerves will win."

​Maria Kolesnikova from predetention center in Minsk

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script  & directing: Cordelia Dvorák

camera: Camilo Echeverri

editing: Camilo Echeverri & Cordelia Dvorák

production: Paloma Films (in Entwicklung)

The judges in Belarus have sentenced the country's citizens to over 7,717 years in prison since the summer of political upheaval in 2020.  Seven thousand seven hundred and seventeen years in prison for a country that claimed free elections, democracy and a future. CHORUS OF RESISTANCE brings  letters, diary entries and last words in court by women from Belarusian imprisonment into a virtual dialog about freedom, the power of twords and the power of the powerless. In a situation where they have lost almost everything, the women try to focus on what cannot be taken away from them: their bodies, their conscience, their pride, their humor and their unconditional belief in a different, free Belarus.
A manifesto of female self-empowerment and unconditional resilience.

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Quixote's Camera
 Ten Letters fromBeyond Light

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Idea, cript & directing: Cordelia Dvorák

Camera: Georgi Lazarevski / Brand Ferro

Production: Paloma Films / Blade Films

Long Run Films

D / FR / G / SL / 88'

 

A filmmaker is about to write an essay

on light, searching for how to make light

again a truly new experience, when she

suddenly meets a blind man, who has

emancipated himself from the idea, that

light is a necessary condition of seeing.

Since he has lost his sight in an accident at the age of 11, his gaze is exiled behind glass eyes, and his dreams into a camera. Longing for images, as Don Quixote for adventures he wanders the world taking photographs, not depicting what he sees, but rather what he hears, touches, smells and remembers.

In 10 filmic Haikus they start to explore their different perception of light and darkness, colors, space, the rivalry of senses, visual memories and the sensual connotation of language, the role of chance, of transience, of dreaming and of beauty.

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Marceline

Un femme. Un siècle

with Annouk Aimé, August Diehl, Joris Ivens, Simone Veil,

J.-P. Sergent, Judith Perrignon, Huan Phuong, Jean Biagiaui

FR / NL / CH / 2019/78 '

script & direction: Cordelia Dvorák

camera: Georgie Lazarevski

editing: Laurence Miller, Friederike Anders

production: Elda productions Paris

commissioned by France3, SRF, PROCIREP, Fondation de la Shoah a.o.

Marceline. A woman. A century is an encounter with the remarkable French film director, author, producer and actress Marceline Loridan-Ivens: The film tells her eventful life as a radical chronicler, political filmmaker,

Jean Rouch actress in the cinéma vérité-classic: 'Chronicle of a Summer', Auschwitz survivor and companion

of documentary pioneer Joris Ivens.

Marceline. A woman. A century is also a film about a unique love and partnership in film-making, about surviving the Holocaust by film-making and a film about an incorruptible and last witness of the 20th century.

"Une vieille dame intranquille" - a restless, old lady - Marceline Loridan-Ivens was called in France. And she was proud of her reputation. Up to the age of 90 Marceline was radical, uncompromising and completely unadjusted.

 

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World premiere: IDFA Amsterdam / Cinéma Vérité Filmfestival Teheran / Big Sky International Documentary Filmfestival / Sarasota Film Festival / FICG Festival Internacional de Cine Guadalajára / Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival San Francisco / Thessaloniki Documentary Filmfestival /  It's All True Filmfestival, Sao Paolo / Hotdocs Toronto Filmfestival / DOK.fest München / CINECINECA Vienna / MIC de Género, Méxiko / RIDM Canada  / Manaki Brothers Cinematógraphers Filmfestival / Chania Filmfestival / Internationales Film- and Videofestival Kassel / UK Jewish Filmfestival / Jewish Fim Festival New York / EPOS Artfilmfestival TelAvif /  Filmfestival Hanoi

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John Berger

Or The Art of Looking

with John Christie, Mike Dibb, Simon McBurney, Jean Mohr, John, Katya and Yves Berger

GB / FR / D / 2017 / 56 '

script & direction: Cordelia Dvorák

camera: Piotr Rosolovski

editing: Alfredo Castro, Gesa Marten

production: Majade Berlin

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On the occasion of his 90th birthday JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING is an intimate portrait of the famous British writer, political essayist, art-critic and passionate motorcyclist whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding for more than five decades. 

The film is a sensitive declaration of love for John Berger, the advocate of the voiceless and underprivileged,

the perpetually critical and highly engaged political intellectual, the always generous collaborator, the extraordinary host and cook, who till the age of 90 remained curious: a truly universal human being.

Covering an amazing range of topics and art-forms, Berger’s work is also inspired by dialogues with other artists. Echoing some of these most astonishing collaborations, JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING is designed as a portrait of works and collaborations, where Berger himself takes the audience on a journey through his writing and his life in his favorite role, that of the storyteller.

Worldpremiere: Volksbühne Berlin & International Literaturfestival Berlin / DoKfest München / Thessaloniki International Filmfestival / FICC Festival Internacional de Cine Guadelajara / FIFA International Filmfestival for the Arts Montreal / Animation & Contemporary Art FF Olomouc / Documentarist IDF Istanbul / New Zealand IFF / Festival Étonnants Voyageurs St. Malo / Cinéma Vérité IDF Teheran

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BAILAR PARA VIVIR

idea, script & direction: Cordelia Dvorák

camera: Arturo de la Rosa

editor: Sylvia Seuboth-Radtke

production: Fechner Media 

& Cordelia Dvorák / Cie. Miranda

comissioned by Arte / NDR / Canal22

Bailar para vivir - Dancing for living

Seven life stories, dance stories, musical stories from Mexico City.

From dawn to dusk the film follows the musical veins of a city and its dancers.

In the footsteps of the cobbler Don Valentino we learn the stories of his customers and accompany them through the day: the blind street musicians Hector and Florentino,

the dancing Father Don Miguel, the singing transvestite Andrés, the fun-loving dancing teacher Maestra Emma, ​​the street sweeper Xavier, the Dancing couple Nancy and Paco and the taxi driver Don Pedro.

They all share the conviction that it is easier to survive with a Danzón, Mambo, Salsa or Tango

in a megalopolis like Mexico City.

 

FR / MEX / D / 90 '/ Docufiction

BEST DOCUMENTARY at the BOGOCINE Intl. Film Festival Bogotá

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What happens when you get older as a sex worker, when your own family has disowned

you or has put you in prison, and when you were born in a country where there is no

pension insurance?
How do you deal with aging, with your body, with your own femininity when your own “market value” suddenly drops?
What remains of you, being a woman, of your body, your beauty, your sensuality - your life?


'Miss Xochiquetzal' accompanies the work of a theater workshop with the residents

of Casa Xochiquetzal, the first retirement home for former sex workers in Mexico City. Based on the life and everyday stories of its residents, the film seeks to approach the difficult lives of 12 women between the ages of sixty and eighty, who at some point

in their lives, had to conquer the street as their territory and earn their living with their bodies.

Now, aged and suddenly without a livelihood, and in most cases without an education, they are faced with the question of prospects for the rest of their lives.

idea, script & directing: Cordelia Dvorák

productions-assistance: Magda Valdivia

camera: Christiane Burkhardt

editing: Xochitl Arellano

photografy: Benedikt Désrue

production: Paloma Films

in association with Fundación  de la

ciudád de México / Canal22 / FIDECINE

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Visiones desde La Memoria Femenina
 25  women - 3 countries - 10 questions
 
  
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Museo de la Memoria Santiago de Chile m.

video installation / MEXICO / CHILE / COLUMBIA / GERMANY / 2011/88 '

 

idea, conception and direction: Cordelia Dvorák

collaboration: Hedda Kage

camera: JA Higareda, Xochitl Arellano, Fernando Restrepo, Lucas da Silva, Carlos Puccio, Simone Zimmermannediting,

graphic design and visual effects: Carlos Jacinto, Cuitlahuac Oropeza

production: Companía Miranda & Theater- und Mediengesellschaft Latein Amerika in coproduction with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, GAK Society for Contemporary Art, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Goethe Institute

 

200 years of independence of the "New World" from the "Old Continent".

The “América” of the Spanish conquerors, which once was so utopian is celebrating itself

and its protracted birth into the 'modern age' - a historical moment of reflection of an entire continent between Rio Grande and Patagonia.

Twenty-five women from the bicentenario countries of Mexico, Colombia and Chile comment on their reading of independence, resistance and memory in the context of their artistic work in post-dicatorial countries.

 

With Rosario Ibarra, Graciela Iturbide, Maria del Carmen de Lara, Marta Lamas, Patricia Mercado, Ofelia Medina, Elena Poniatovska and Lorena Wolffer (Mexico)

Michelle Bachelet, Carmen Castillo, Trinidad González, Natividad Llanquileo, Kena Lorenzini, Sonia Montecino, Kena Lorenzini, Lotty Rosenfeld, Marcia Scantlebury and Camila Vallejo (Chile)

Heidi Abderhalden, Patricia Ariza, Ana Teresa Bernal, Alejandra Borrero, María Jimena Duzán, Clemencia Echeverri, Beatriz González, Laura Restrepo and Marta Rodríguez (Colombia)

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worldpremiere: Gallery for Contemporary Art GAK Bremen / FICG Festival Internacional de Cine Guadelajára / Museo de la Memoria Santiago de Chile / HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin

You just have to survive

The composer Berthold Goldschmidt

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a film by Cordelia Dvorák and Roland Zag

 

 

Best Documentary at Prague d'Or

Mention Especial at Classique en images

 

 

As the last survivor of Germany's generation of the as "entartet"

stigmatized Jewish artists, conductor and composer Berthold Goldschmidt looks back on a century of music and contemporary history.

Together with colleagues such as Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, his career was brutally interrupted

when the NSDAP came to power.

Only at the end of his life and from his exile in London,

he findes the long fawaited international succes with his music.

  The film accompanies the 90 year old composer

in the last year of his life to concerts, recordings

and opera premieres in London, Berlin and Salzburg

and searches for the secret of his artistic

Survival in signs of war, dictatorship and forced silence.


script and directors: Cordelia Dvorák and Roland Zag
camera: Friedl Klütsch

production: MEDIAS RES / together with NDR / arte / 1996


 

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