Dirk Peuker
Dirk PEUKER (1970, Germany) was educated in Film and Art in Berlin and Vienna. He creates experimental films that are screened throughout Europe. Peuker co-directs most of his films with Bettina Nürnberg, such as the short documentaries Zement (2014), Franzosensand (2016) and Elephant Bearing an Obelisk (2018). Both Peuker and Nürnberg also work in the fields of photography and sculpture.
Filmography
(selection, all short) Hotel (2000), Jule (2002), Revolutionary Tea Party (2006, co-dir), Inseln und Chausseen (2006), Kristallbild (2007), Der anti Ödipus/The Anti Oedipus (2010), Die Amerikanischen Häuser/The American Houses (2010, co-dir), Flache Dächer für Mussolini/Flat Roofs for Mussolini (2012, co-dir), The Walk (2012), Zement (2014, co-dir, doc), Franzosensand (2016, co-dir, doc), Elephant Bearing an Obelisk (2018, co-dir, doc)
Dirk Peuker op IFFR
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Elephant Bearing an Obelisk
Bettina Nürnberg, Dirk Peuker | 15' | Germany | International premiere
The modernist legacy of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa in Venice shown through blueprints, illustrations and 16 mm footage. -
Franzosensand
Bettina Nürnberg, Dirk Peuker | 8' | Germany | World premiere
This film enters a hamlet on the German Wadden Sea like a PhD research project, revealing the painful past of this landscape that looks so… -
Zement
Bettina Nürnberg, Dirk Peuker | 12' | Austria | None
Search for the hidden history of this idyllic Austrian village in Salzkammergut leads to surprising, disconcerting revelations.