Krisztina KEREKES (RO/AT)

Krisztina Kerekes was born in 1978 in Rumania. In 1999, she began studying camera and image technique under Prof. Christian Berger at the Department of Film and TV at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She spend 2002-03 as an exchange student in Berlin at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television. She got professional experience as a free-lance camera and sound assistant at the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s regional studios in Styria and Vienna (1998-2000) and as a free-lance camera assistant and lighting engineer on the crew of various film and TV productions in Austria and abroad. Her work has included “Me vers pasar el Ebro-en un barquito de vela” (director: Libertad Hackl, documentary film; Film Academy Vienna, 2000); “jeux infinit” (concept, camera, film editing: Krisztina Kerekes, essay film; Film Academy Vienna, 2002); “Protest in Old Germany” (director: Marc Bader, documentary film; Film Academy Vienna, 2003); “Jusuf” (director: Heiko Aufdermauer, short dramatic film; HFF Potsdam/Babelsberg, 2003); “Meine 3 Zinnen” (director: Andreas Pichler, documentary film; I/A/F/SF; Stefilm International, co-production with ARTE and ORF, 2005); “Bilder aus dem Tagebuch eines Wartenden” (director: Judith Zdesar, documentary film; Film Academy Vienna, 2006); “Derniére” (director: Katherine Batliner, short dramatic film; Film Academy Vienna, 2006); “Vampire(s)” (director: Arnaud Gerber, experimental documentary film; F, Aurora Films, Paris, 2008).