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Biography Fred Kelemen
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Fred Efrem Kelemen was born in West-Berlin/Germany as the son of Hungarian and German parents.
He studied painting, music, philosophy, science of religions and theatre sciences and worked in different theatres as a director's assistant before he began his studies at the German Film & TV Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1989 to 1994.
In 1995 he received the German National Film Award for his first feature “FATE”. Since that time, he has made a number of films and videos as director and collaborated as cinematographer with several film directors like Béla Tarr (“Journey to the Plain”, 1995, “The Man from London”, 2007 ), Rudolf Thome (“The Visible and the Invisible”, 2006), Gariné Torossian (“Stone, Time, Touch”, 2005), a. o.
Since 1995 he is working as a guest lecturer at the Centre of Cinematographical Studies of Catalania (C.E.C.C.) in Barcelona/Spain, at the School of Visual Arts (ESBAG) in Geneva/Switzerland, at the Latvian Cultural Academy (LKA) in Riga and the University of Santiago de Chile/Department of the Arts and Sciences of Visual Medias.
Since 2000 he directed several plays at different theatres in Germany.
Retrospectives of his work had been presented in Lisbon/Portugal (1997), Belgrade/Yugoslavia (2000), Cambride/U.S.A (2000), Athens/Greece (2000), Brussels/Belgium (2001), Oslo/Norway (2001), Hanover/Germany (2002), New York City/U.S.A. (2003), Buenos Aires/Argentina (2003), Berlin/Germany (2004), Barcelona/Spain (2005) Bern/Switzerland (2005), Ankara/Turkey (2006), London/England (2006), Berlin/Germany (2007), Potsdam/Germany (2007), Valdivia/Chile (2007) and Bangkok/Thailand (2007).
In 2008 retrospectives of his films are planned to be presented in Cologne/Germany, Montpellier/France, Athens/Greece, Moscow/Russia, Riga/Latvia and Budapest/Hungary.
With his film production company Kino Kombat Filmmanufactur he produced his film “Krisana”/”Fallen” (co-producer: Laima Freimane/Screen Vision, Latvia, 2005) and he produced or co-produced the films “Moskatchka” by Annett Schütze (co-producer: Laima Freimane/Screen Vision, Latvia, 2005) and “Fragment” by Gyula Maár (producer: Béla Tarr/TTFilmmühely, Hungary, 2007). Fred Kelemen is member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the German Film Academy and of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP).
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