Wolfgang Lehmann

Réalisateur·trice

Lehmann Film & Bild

BIOGRAPHIE

Wolfgang Lehmann was born in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany in 1967. Active in the film club there, Wolfgang Lehmann wrote film critiques and began working for the municipal cinema Freiburg, a post he held till until 2005. He focused on presenting works of the film- and video avant-garde from its beginnings until today. For this purpose he organised programmes in collaboration with archives, distributors and collections from various European countries and the USA. Some of these programmes were shown at selected Art Cinemas throughout Germany as well as Switzerland. His main contributions have been to unearth little known or forgotten films, as well as explore areas such as “expanded cinema” and multi media works. Wolfgang Lehmann has also displayed interest in the notion of live film performance in terms of a type of staged activity. Concluding his work in Freiburg was the organisation of the Festival Film Forum Freiburg: Expanded Cinema & avant-garde in 2004. His first cinematic efforts were made in 1989. Since 1994 Wolfgang Lehmann has real- ised and produced his own films, many of which were invited for showings at festivals and museums in Europe, Japan, Korea, India, Bangladesh, Israel, Australia, Canada, USA and South America. Retrospectives were shown in Berlin, Frankfurt/Main and Cagliari (Sardinia). Since the beginning of his artistic activity, he has not only been fascinated by film, but music as well. Concerts heard during his formative years featuring the music of Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti and other great composers inspired him to initiate collaborative efforts with composers. Since his first film with music Fontaine de Vaucluse (2001, together with Florian Krautkrämer), Wolfgang Lehmann has been searching for a way to combine and connect picture and sound equivalent without using the traditional - and in his eyes dissatisfying - method of synchronisation. The ECLAT Festival commission, Meer (Sea), conceivedwith Telemach Wiesinger as well as with composer Misato Mochizuki, was a further development toward the connection of image and sound. In his films Wolfgang Lehmann makes use mostly of documentary material; these include pictures of landscapes and themes from the urban space and from cities. His works can be characterised by an exact and often rhythmic-like montage, as well as extremely short takes that result in overlapping images. After living for a brief period in Berlin, Wolfgang Lehmann has resided in Stockholm with his wife and his son since 2006.

FILMOGRAPHIE