Matl Findel

 

 

1961   born in Allgäu, Abitur and civil service ibidem 
1982   Munich, photographer´s assistent at VIS - advertising agency 
1984   studies in Media, political science, dramatic arts 
           worked simultaneously as a photographer (advertising, fashion) 
1987  enrolled at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin 

2002  discovery of the shruddle technique (in the wonderful world of the 50 half pictures)  

2004  Invention of screenages (german: Stromgemälde) distributionnumber Genf WO 2005/057537   

          

           lives and breathes in Berlin and Allgäu

 

 

 

Scholarships

2001  Foundation for European American Relations, Villa Aurora, LA

2005  Akademie der Künste, Berlin

 

 

works as:

Director (Film/TV –refer Filmographie)

Producer

1994   Mitte Mai Kurzspielfilm 35mm supported by FKT Berlin
2001   complete shruddle-poetry Videos 6 x Videolyrics with Oswald Egger, South-Tyrol)
2004   Advertising trailer  for Waadt_Brauer_Henkel Kommunikation (www.wbh-k.de)
2008   Zaungäste – zza plotu  german-polish documentary, supported by BKM, NRW, 3sat

Screenwriter (refer to filmography)

"Polka Service" supported by Bundesministerium für Kultur und Medien
"Aller Welt Freund" after a novel of von Jurek Becker  

Photographer

in Munich professionally done clients among others: Rodenstock, Louis Férrau, ...
1995 Reportagetour to New York and Dominican Republic Magazin: Cigar (Suisse)
2001 People I met on my 40^th birthday (Portraits, Hasselblad)
2004 /06 Catalog of actor´s agency Jana Kunath Berlin 

Cinematographer Fiction- , Documentary- and Industryfilms selected:

1990 "Bis Montagmorgen" film by Tamara Staudt
1992 "Demiurg" (Psyche und Pragma) shortfilm by Didel Delacher (Austria)
1994 "Prends ta chance" essayistic film by Simone Fürbringer (Suisse)
1997 "Pfadfinder" documentary film by Georg Maas
2002 "Sack und Pack" sixpart Dokusoap of SFB/WDR
2008 "Zaungäste - zza plotu" german-polish documentary, supported by BKM, NRW, 3sat
2008 "binnen" by Katharina Hinsberg, for Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Lectureships in Köln (KHM), Babelsberg (HFF), Berlin (dffb), Los Angeles (UCLA)

 
Filmography

1988 Dangling Rectangles                                         16 mm,5 min
1989 Bluesblaser                                                         U-matic,7min
1992 Das Blaue vom Himmel                                  16 mm,18 min
1994 Im Regen (tant pis)                                          16 mm,28 min
1995 Mitte Mai                                                               35mm, 5min
1998 Alle Zeit der Welt                                            16 mm, 93 min
2002 Vetrautes Quatrain                                               Beta, 6 min
2002 Sonnenuntergangs Str.2                                      Beta, 5min
2002 Sonnenuntergangs Str.5                                      Beta, 1min
2002 Portrait Bettina Dittlmann                                    Beta, 4 min
2003 Eben erdig nach Bagdad                                    Beta, 2 min
2003 Son (waiting)                                                            DV, 2 min
2003 Racing Shadow                                                       DV, 4 min
2004 Unblumen Rapsody                                                DV, 1 min
2004 Nichts von dem ...                                                     DV, 5 min
2004 Bonassola                                                               DV, 10 min
2006 People I met on my 40th birthday                    BETA,70 min
2008 Zaungäste - zza plotu                                            HD, 81 min

2009 For simplicity´s sake der Einfachheit halber     HD, 30 min

 

Festival Awards

Festival Européen du Court Métrage, Grenoble / Frankreich 1994
Best screenplay "Das Blaue vom Himmel"

 

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 1994
German Film Critics` Award "Im Regen (tant pis)"

Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 1994
First Award (Audience Award) "Im Regen (tant pis)"

Chicago International Film Festival 1994
Silver Hugo (best of category: Student Film - Comedy) "Im Regen (tant pis)"

Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg 1995
First Award (Audience Award) "Im Regen (tant pis)"

Augsburger Kurzfilmwochenende 1995
First Award (Audience Award) "Im Regen (tant pis)"
 

Alle Zeit der Welt / Bags of Time

Synopsis:

...takes place in Berlin, where people come from far away and everyone talks at once.
The film has five main characters, one dog, and two to three love stories.
One of them concerns Anton, who only has six month to live because of a brain tumour. Besides, Anton felt like everything was getting too complicated anyway, and he understood the world less each day. Also he has decided to dump his former existence and declare himself as a beginner in the game of life.
Of course six months is too short to get everything right, is what you´d think, but after only seven days Anton plunges down and breaks his neck...and those were enough, because Anton had beginner´s luck.
 

Cast, Team
Anton                               Jockel Tschiersch
Matthew                           Matthew Burton
Lilith                                 Ruth Vaughn
Toost                               Josepha van der Schoot
Radka                               Ivana Broukova
Hund                                Feldmann
Iva Bittová  in concert

Screenplay                         Matl Findel, Tamara Staudt
Director                             Matl Findel
Camera                             Christoph Krauss
Sound                               Georg Maas
Production Design                Alexander Manasse, Attila Saygel
Costumes                           Simone Simon
Editor                                Isabel Meier
Music                                Harald Kündgen, Christian Kögel
Commissioning Editor ZDF    Annedore v. Donop
Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Producer                           Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
 

Press - Critics

Alle Zeit der Welt (Bags of time):

“A big city ballade with moments of true greatness”(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
"Großstadtballade mit einigen Momenten wahrer Größe" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

“A film with the liberating charm of Oblomov's universe ...” (Berliner Zeitung)
"Besitzt den Zauber einer erlösten Oblomow`schen Welt" (Berliner Zeitung)

“Wonderfully un-hip...” (Der Spiegel)
"wunderbar unmodisch..." (Der Spiegel)

“Original and really sharp dialogues...” (Stuttgarter Zeitung)
"originelle, manchmal sogar wirklich geistreiche Dialoge" (Stuttgarter Zeitung)

“A peacful and flowing work, a fantastic cast, without lapsing into sentimentalities, this is a film of laconic clarity”.  (Zitty)
"Schön ruhig dahinfließendes Werk, glänzend besetzt, ohne Pathos,
schlicht und lakonisch" (Zitty)

"...a film so perfectly confident, that afterwards you cannot picture Berlin differently; with arabic singing from the minaret of the TV-tower, or the Oberbaum bridge filmed as a backdrop from Venice...” (TIP)
“... wieder so selbstverständlich, daß man sich Berlin irgendwann gar nicht mehr vorstellen kann ohne die arabischen Gesänge zum Minarett des Fernsehturms, ohne die venezianisch gefilmte Oberbaumbrücke, ...” (TIP)

"unusual direction..." (BZ)
"unkonventionell inszeniert" (BZ)

"a sparkling story...” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
"prickelnde Geschichte" (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"an endearing film, full of symbols..." (Westfälische Rundschau)
"liebenswerter Film voller Symbole"  (Westfälische Rundschau)

"a small, wonderful, and light-footed masterpiece..." (Stadtrevue -Köln)
"kleines, wunderbar leichtes Meisterwerk"  (Stadtrevue -Köln)
 

Im Regen (tant pis):

...is one of the best student films of the year; unique, funny, intelligent and politically courageous...(Renen Schorr, Director of the Jerusalem Film School)

...a film style with the ironic and minimalistic literary qualities of Robert Walser...(epd-Film)
...in seinen filmischen Mitteln dem literarischen ironischen Minimalismus eines Robert Walser verwandt... (epd-Film)

...a life-affirming tragic masterpiece which is addicting...(Taz)
...lebensbejahend tragisches Meisterwerk, das süchtig macht...(Taz)

...almost as wonderful as Fellini´s "Vitelloni"...(Zitty)
...fast so schön wie Fellinis "Müßiggänger"...(Zitty)
 

 

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Let´s see, how warm is it close to Kreuzberg

 
 
warm enough for the beach, it seems:
  
 
 
 
 or a refreshing poetry shruddle instead?
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ah, those are the so called Stromgemälde?
 
 
   
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
xxx