Angelika Levi Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Angelika Levi
Directing
Biography
Angelika Levi is a research based filmmaker and video artist, working with a range of media – particularly film material, video, audio, photography and text. Angelika Levi lives in Berlin. She studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb). From 1985 on her work has been shown at international film festivals, cinemas, exhibitions and film programs. Her short film Faust auf Auge (1988) won the No Budget Video Prize Hamburg, and Desiree & Polylepis (1994) was rated “high quality” by the German Film Classification Board in Wiesbaden. My Life Part 2, her first full-length documentary, won several awards and had its premiere at the Forum / International Berlin Film Festival 2003. Children of Srikandi had its Premiere at the Panorama / International Berlin Film Festival 2012 and won also several awards. Her last work Miete Essen Seele Auf was shown in the exhibition “Wohnungsfrage” in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, October 23th – December 14th, 2015. In addition to making her own films, Angelika Levi works as a script and dramatic advisor, lecturer and film editor. Films and videos are distributed by Arsenal Distribution – Institut for Film and Video Art.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Ariel
After the short story of Franz Kafka “Unhappiness”. A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: “Go out of my way, you seem to have strayed.” Says the other: “For thousands of years I’ve been looking for a formula to find you, please do not send me away again.” The first one is already slightly pissed: “The destiny of a parallel is to be eternally alone, on the way to infinity.” “No, no,” the second one desperately screams: “One parallel is nothing, alone you are only an undefined line.“
To Show or Not to Show
Filmmakers talk about their experiences - about success, failure and social participation. Who is seen, and who can show themselves?
My Life Part 2
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
Navy Cut
The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The crew is finally free. Meanwhile, the revolutionary Snow White has hidden on the ship, but she is discovered.
My Sister’s Good Fortune
A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister, throwing the trio into chaos.
Production
Ariel
After the short story of Franz Kafka “Unhappiness”. A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: “Go out of my way, you seem to have strayed.” Says the other: “For thousands of years I’ve been looking for a formula to find you, please do not send me away again.” The first one is already slightly pissed: “The destiny of a parallel is to be eternally alone, on the way to infinity.” “No, no,” the second one desperately screams: “One parallel is nothing, alone you are only an undefined line.“
Sex Party
An german experimental film about the party culture of Berlin in the 1980s
My Life Part 2
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
My Life Part 2
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
My Life Part 2
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
My Life Part 2
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
My Life Part 2
By means of objects, photos, tapes and films, director Angelika Levi, half-German, half-Jewish, examines the story of her family. The film deals with trauma and the way history is produced, filed away, turned into discourse and ordered on macro and micro levels.
I Stayed in Berlin All Summer
Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing, until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholic observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They are full of skepticism and searching for a purpose in life.
Rent Eats Soul
Documentation on a protest campaign against urban displacement, organized by neighbors from Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Rent Eats Soul
Documentation on a protest campaign against urban displacement, organized by neighbors from Kreuzberg, Berlin.
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