Milena Gierke
Biography
Milena Gierke, born 1968 in Frankfurt am Main. 1989 – 94 Studies at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, in Peter Kubelka’s class “Film + Kochen” (film + cooking). In 1994 she studied sculpture at the Cooper Union in New York City with Hans Haacke and film history with James Hoberman. Other teachers have been representatives of the US film avant-garde such as Ken Jacobs or Robert Breer. Jonas Mekas has greatly inspired Milena Gierke in her diary films. In 1995 he screened a three-hour retrospective of her work at Anthology Film Archive. Since 2001 she has been a member of the curatorial group “Filmsamstag” at the Filmkunsthaus Babylon, Berlin. Milena Gierke projects her films inside the screening room itself. The sound of the running projector becomes its own rhythm, becomes the musical accompaniment. Each of the programs that she puts together takes into account the architectonic occurrences of the place, which are created by the space and the audience. She shows her work not only in cinemas, but also in galleries and other places of interest to her, for example: 2001 “Vorgestellt” Earport (young composers were presented to and put in relation to visual artists), “Mittagspause”, the closing event in the old Staatsbank, in which Roland Ketschmer gave a reading of Robert Musil’s Buch “The Man without Qualities” and showed Milena Gierke’s film ZEIT in connection with it, “Filme ohne Ton” (“Films without Sound”) in the Berlin Center for the Deaf, including a discussion with an interpreter. The artist has been living in Berlin since 1998.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Memorial
Director (Directing)
2012
Stündlich I-III
2012
In a Tree’s Shadow II
Director (Directing)
2011
Volver
Director (Directing)
2009
Zauberzeit
Director (Directing)
2009
Brooklyn Bridge
Director (Directing)
2008
Wallstreet, Oct. 12th 2008
Director (Directing)
2008
"B" WIE BAGGERFÜHRER
Director (Directing)
2008
Und sie dreht sich doch
Director (Directing)
2008
Le Corbusier au Mistral
Director (Directing)
2008
Depuis que je me souviens
Director (Directing)
2005
Rouge, blanc, verre
Director (Directing)
2004
Gartentränen
Director (Directing)
2004
Reise nach Mikulince, Ukraine
Director (Directing)
2003
Gestrandet
Director (Directing)
2001
Clinic
Director (Directing)
2001
Stillesleben
Director (Directing)
2001
Gräser
Director (Directing)
2000
Membrane
Director (Directing)
2000
Towards
Director (Directing)
1999
Mainstream
Director (Directing)
1998
France - Brazil in New York
Director (Directing)
1998
Playing With Water I
Director (Directing)
1997
Kröten
Director (Directing)
1997
Refreshment in Summer
1997
Playing With Water II + III
Director (Directing)
1997
In A Tree’s Shadow
Director (Directing)
1996
Windows
Director (Directing)
1996
New York Film Diary
Director (Directing)
1995
Bekanntschaft
Director (Directing)
1995
Aidswalk
Director (Directing)
1995
Beware of Jet Blast, Props and Rotors
Director (Directing)
1995
Blessing Animals
Director (Directing)
1994
Aufziehender Sturm
Director (Directing)
1994
Thanksgiving
Director (Directing)
1994
Klatschmohn II
Director (Directing)
1993
Making Apple Juice
Director (Directing)
1993
Stranger II
as Herself
1992
Im Laufe eines Tages
Director (Directing)
1992
Portikus II
Director (Directing)
1992
Reflections
as Herself
1992
Opernblüte
Director (Directing)
1992
Indien - Super 8 Reisetagebuch
Director (Directing)
1992
Stündlich I
Director (Directing)
1991
Time (one week)
as Herself
1991
Knocking on Skin
Director (Directing)
1991
Sixteen Candles
as Herself
1990
Fremder Mann I
Director (Directing)
1990
Views I + II
Director (Directing)
1990
Views From a Car
Director (Directing)
1990