Ulrich Seidl

Ulrich Seidl (Austria)

Ulrich Seidl (born 1952) is the director of numerous award-winning documentaries such as Jesus, du weißt/ Jesus, You Know, Models/ Models and Tierische Liebe/ Animal Love. His work methods, achieving the greatest possible authenticity and showing people in the most solitary and personal moments, has aroused intense debate.
From his debut film, a provocative piece on a very short man, Einsvierzig, shot in 1979, straight down to Import/Export, his latest exercise in epic realism, Ulrich Seidl has managed to disturb, infuriate and touch audiences.
Seidl’s film work, derived from personal experiences like a severe catholic upbringing and doing casual labor as a night watchman and warehouse worker, continues to shock and challenge viewers by posing essential questions about the nature of cinema and its „morals“: about the gray areas between the fictional and the documentary; about the limits of voyeurism and the urge to fight sentimentality; about the very different modes of acting – from amateur posing to professional faking. His first fiction feature, Hundstage/ Dog Days, won the Grand Jury Special Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. Import/Export is the first film that Seidl has also produced.
He lives in Vienna, Austria.

Filmography

  • Import/Export
    2007
  • Brüder, lasst uns lustig sein/ Brothers, Let Us Be Merry
    2006
  • Jesus, Du weisst/ Jesus, You Know
    2003
  • Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln/ State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters
    2002
  • Hundstage/ Dog Days
    2001
  • Models
    1999
  • Spass ohne Grenzen
    1998
  • Der Busenfreund
    1997
  • Bilder einer Ausstellung
    1996
  • Tierische Liebe/ Animal Love
    1995
  • Die Letzten Männer/ The Last Real Men
    1994
  • Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen/ Loss Is to Be Expected
    1992
  • Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern
    1990
  • Look 84
    1984
  • Der Ball
    1982
  • Einsvierzig
    1980

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