Rasmus Gerlach, born in Hamburg.
Grown up a lot in denmark, speaks danish, studied Visual Communication
at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
Works
as a freelance film-maker and cameraman Founder. Curator &
Organisator of Hamburg Documentary Filmweek 2003-20….1995-1997 Berlin
Techno-Club „Love WG“ -now Artists-Festival “Futur“ Hamburg
Early Films:
JUPITERKLIMA, 5 min, 16 mm – first climate – movie of germany
Experimental done with direct reaction of polluted water from river Elbe on 16 mm reversal film. Soundtrack done by the artst with help of Klangfilm-sound-engines. Experimental-Film Workshop Osnabrück 87
Desolatesse, short fiction film in collabration Jörn Staeger
5 min, 35 mm, Berlinale 1989 .
Die Hafentreppe Dokumentarfilm in collaboration with Thomas Tode, 75 min, 16 mm, 34. Leipzig Documentary Festival 1991
Camera-works:
Das untergehende Vaterland Doku about Hölderlins last poems,
84 min, 16 mm, Festivals: Locarno, Leipzig 92
Durchschuß short fiction , awarded with the Poza Kinem-Preis of polisch fotografers.
Sööpsch fiction, Nordische Filmtage 1994
Dziga Vertov – in the land of cinema veterans, 90 min. Doku.
Festivals: Sydney, Pesaro, Edinburg, broadcasts: NDR, ORB, australisches TV. 1995
Actor in:
RAD von Jörn Staeger. Media-wave Györ, Weiterstadt,
Osnabrück, Filmfestival Milano 2001, No Budget 2002
Video-Art:
FREVEL („Sacrilegio“ engl “Outrage”) directed, acted and filmed by Rasmus Hamburg. One-Minute quicktime-movie for looping on computer-platforms. International competition Videofestival Lisboa 2001, Videomatsch 2005, Platform No Budget Tübingen 2006, Dallas Videofestival 2006
Documentaries:
I was a serial-number, video 28 Min. 1996 about the counterfeiting command in Sachsenhausen concentration-camp. Documentary forerunner of oscar-awarded austrian movie “The counterfeiters”
Operator Kaufman 51 min. N3, 2000, Festivals: Jerusalem, Brisbane, Oslo, Video-Lisboa, Bombay, awarded with Prix du documentaire historique 2000 des UNESCO-Film-Festivals Paris, documetary award Athens Film- and videofestival Ohio.
Video-Festival Dallas, VIEWPOINT-Festval Gent.
American Amateur 9 Minuten Bochumer Videofestival 2002
Dallas Videofestival 2002
Durst ist schlimmer als Heimweh Found-Footage-Video „Flotter Dreier” beim No-Budget Shortfilmfestival Hamburg 2002
Die Drogenenkel vom Hauptbahnhof N3 Reportage 30 Minuten, 2004
Video-essay, 72 Minutes, english version under construction
Unarmed Bodyguards – as peacebrigadists in colombia & mexiko NRD, ARD 1 Festival
Unity, Putzi & Blondi – Hitlers friends and the american secret service
Jimi & das Fehmarn Festival – Kino-Doku – Nordische Filmtage, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
Apple Stories Phoenix docu prize, Nordic Filmdays-Lübeck Premiere 1.11.12
German TV-broadcast 23.2.2013 Hamburg Documentary filmweek 12.4.2013
Lampedusa auf St. Pauli Filmfest Hamburg 2013, “Gefahrengebiete, Gipfel & andere Hamburgensien” Filmfest Hamburg 2015 – participiant of Anti-G20 mobilisation 2017
Timeswings – The Art of Hanne Darboven Filmfest Hamburg and
Nordic Filmdays Luebeck 2016, cinema release june 2017 with RealFiction
The Summit – Performing G20 Filmfest Hamburg and Nordic Filmdays 2017
Sankt Paulis Strong Women – Reeperbahner*innen Filmfest Hamburg
Nordic Filmdays Lübeck 2018, Screenings in Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Rendsburg Musikfilmfestival, Reeperbahn-Festival 2019, Unerhört-Festival
Gestapo – Swing – about Anti-Nazi-Youth-Movement 80 minutes Documentary-filmreading