Othmar Schmiderer
Othmar SCHMIDERER was born in 1954 in Germany. He started working in the theatre in 1980, assisting in production and direction at the ‘Theaterkooperative zur Schaubude’, including Der Zusammenstoss by Kurt Schwitters, a Vienna Festival production at the Museum of the 20th Century. In 1983, he began working in film. He assisted in diverse functions on numerous documentary and feature films. Here he took part in various productions as a cameraman and sound engineer, and developed his own projects. Since 1987, he has worked as an independent filmmaker in Vienna and Grafenwörth.
Filmography
Josef Hauser – Klang und Raum (1988), Verbotene Jagden (1990), Spurensuche Hochwies (1990), Mobile Stabile (1992), Collision (1993), Im Bannkreis (1995), Klangsäule (1995), Vienna Art Orchestra on Tour (2000), Im toten Winkel – Hitlers Sekretärin (2002), Back to Africa (2008), Im Augenblick – die historie und das offene (2013), Die Tage wie das Jahr (2019)
Othmar Schmiderer at IFFR
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Elements of(f) Balance
Othmar Schmiderer | 98' | Austria | International premiere
A visually exquisite, intellectually thought-provoking global journey into ways of countering the destruction of our ecosystem.