Curriculum Vitae Tilmann Rödiger
Tilmann Rödiger works in the vast field of cinematic and documentary images. Trained as an artist in the field of media and image production, he has experience both in experimental and professional contexts. Via the course of numerous collaborative projects, he has been a Director of Photography in several countries as well as in crisis situations such as the 2014 Maidan uprising in Ukraine. He also developed advanced knowledge as an on-set audio recordist and did some editing and sound mixing. In his time at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design he had teaching assignments for technical introduction courses and was a teaching assistant to Prof. João Tabarra, organizing guest lectures, workshops, and exhibitions. He was granted PROMOS and DAAD scholarships, and together with media artist Lukas Rehm he won the national award “Federal Prize for Art Students” with their documentary work “Default”. After finishing his studies in Media Art with a Diploma he moved to Sofia, Bulgaria where his son was born. He continues to shoot for art and independent film projects, as well as to develop his own artistic projects.
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Work (selection)
| 2024–ongoing | Co-writer + Director of Photographycinema documentary “Borders” (AT) with Rebecca Hirneise |
| 2021–ongoing | Director of Photographyfor the documentary “Guns and Roses” (WT), by Rayna Teneva, Kazanlak (BG) |
| 2023–ongoing | Freelance Junior Colourist at “ColorCompany”, Vienna |
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| 2023 | Director of Photography “Zwischen uns Gott”, by Rebecca Hirneise, long-term documentary, Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion IFFR Rotterdam, Max Ophüls Saarbrücken, DOK.fest Munich, Docs Against Gravity Warsaw, Viennale, VIKTOR DOK.deutsch (main prize DOK.fest Munich 2024) |
| 2023 | Sound recordist short fiction “Hunter Gatherer”, by Deniz Eroglu |
| 2023 | Director of Photography + Video artist for several short clips for the choreographer Christian Bakalov / Variant ECIPA - European Center for Immersive Performative Art |
| 2022 | Director of Photography video work “Застани до мен/Stand by me” by Kalin Serapionov, funded by the Ministry of Culture, Bulgaria |
| 2022 | Video artist opera “Tannhäuser” from Richard Wagner at Aalto Theater Essen, together with Vincent Stefan |
| 2022 | Video artist opera “Hänsel und Gretel” from Engelbert Humperdinck at Brandenburger Theater |
| 2022 | Director of Photography for the documentary “Guns and Roses” (WT), by Rayna Teneva, Kazanlak (BG) |
| 2021 | Director of Photography short fiction “The Last Dream of the Patient”, by Klara Stoyanova, Kula (BG)/Babelsberg, Potsdam |
| 2021 | Video artist revival opera “Trouble in Tahiti” from Leonard Bernstein at Staatsoper Stuttgart |
| 2020–2021 | Director of Photography video work “Time (WT)” for Valentina Sciarra, within a residency at Solitude |
| 2020–ongoing | Commercial work in Bulgaria for clients like Fantastiko and Goethe-Institute |
| 2019 | Camera Operator for Kalin Serapionov’s video installation “The Dessert (with the cherry on top)” |
| 2018–ongoing | Director of Photography for Rebecca Hirneise’s Debut “Funkstille (WT)” (a long-term documentary project, produced by Ruth Beckermann, Vienna) |
| 2018 | Director of Photography for Hannah Cooke’s “Ada vs. Emin” and “Ada vs. Abramović” |
| 2017–2019 | Director of Photography for the opera “Castor&&Pollux”, (shot in several countries, in studio and on location, premiered at the festival “Heidelberger Frühling” 2019) |
| 2015–ongoing | Freelancing jobs as cameraman, assistant, and production sound mixer for advertisement, web series and image films |
| 2016–2017 | Student research and teaching assistant of Prof. João Tabarra (dept. Moving Images) |
| 2014–2016 | Teaching assignment at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (technology for moving image production: camera-, editing- and colour- introductory courses) |
| 2014 | Projectionist in a local cinema |
| 2013 | Student assistant at the Digital Printing and Analogue Photography Lab |
Education
| 2012–2019 | Diploma / Master of Arts in Media Art, with minors in Art Research and Media Philosophy and Scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (Prof. João Tabarra, Prof. Răzvan Rădulescu, Prof. Andrei Ujica, Prof. Jonathan Bepler, Prof. Isaac Julien, Prof. Omer Fast amongst others) |
| 2017 | PROMOS scholarship at the Athens School of Fine Arts |
| 2018 | Member of the Jury Student Award 33. DOK.fest Munich |
Additional workshops/Master classes
- Camera for independent cinema with Luchian Ciobanu
- Editing for film with Dana Bunescu
- Editing with Karl Riedl
- Documentary film with Erwin Wagenhofer
- Stereoscopic camera for cinema with Joséphine Derobe
- Film history with Otto E. Rössler
- Sound recording with André Rigaut
- Sound for film with Eckhardt Kuchenbecker
- Sound mixing with Michael Hinreiner
- Sound design with Andreas Bick
Prizes + Scholarships
| 2018 | Project development grant Riemschneider Foundation |
| 2017 | Federal Prize for Art Students of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| 2017 | Award and project grant of the Development Fund for Art and Mediatechnology at ZKM |
| 2016/2017 | PROMOS-Scholarship DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) |
Exhibitions (selection)
| 2019 | Cinematography and AI-augmented reality renderings for the Multimedia music theatre “Castor&&Pollux” |
| 2018 | DELTABEBEN – Regionale 2018, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen |
| 2017 | Bundespreis für Kunststudierende 2017, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn |
| 2016 | Default (with Lukas Rehm) Luis Leu, Karlsruhe |
| 2016 | Dissociative Experiences Scales, Circuits and Currents, Athens |
| 2014 | Either you have no horse, or you don’t know the way… (with Benjamin Breitkopf) 3D-Festival BEYOND ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe |
| 2013 | Vozes das Águas, Centro Internacional de Congressos Joaquim Chissano, Maputo |