Gerd Conradt
* 1941 in Schwiebus.
Gerd Conradt learned photography and was one of the first students of the German Film and Television Academy of Berlin (dffb) in 1966. He has worked for television as freelancer since 1982. Recurring themes of Conradt's portraits, documentaries and video installations are the city of Berlin, student activism and the RAF, e.g. in his most famous feature-length film Starbuck Holger Meins.
Personal website: http://www.gerdconradt.de/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175652/
FILMS directed by GERD CONRADT
Ein-Blick
FRG 1987, 11 min
A camera documents the everyday action at the border-line that separates East and West Berlin. We observe 12 hours in quick motion; fortifications, hanging up washing, ping-pong and German Insanity.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Berlin '89
OTHER FILMS (selection):
24 h Berlin - Ein Tag im Leben (2009)
Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg (2005)
Rettet Berlin! (2003)
Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
Der Videopionier (1983)
Über Holger Meins (1982)
Die rote Fahne (1968)