MARTIN PRINOTH is a filmmaker, multimedia artist and cinematographer. He was born in 1983 in the Ladin-speaking Urtijëi, Italy. After his BA degree in communication sciences at the University in Salzburg he studied Film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Martin Prinoth is holder of the Gerd Ruge scholarship and part of the international film developement program EsoDoc 2020. In 2019 he received the Robert Bosch grant „Grenzgänger“. His debut film „The Fifth Point of the Compass“ premiered at DOK Leipzig 60th and received several nominations and prizes including the VisioniDOC award for best Italian documentary debut. The film was shown on TV and in cinemas in the co-production countries Germany and Italy.
2020 he co-foundet the Hamburg based artist duo TÒ SU with Martina Mahlknecht, which produces own projects between documentary film, multimedia art and immersive performances.
WORK AND COLLABORATIONS
DIRECTOR FILM/MULTIMEDIA
Hack Me Baby. Mixed media installation. Kampnagel 2021
Arte Kurzschluss Portrait. ARTE TV 2021
Ein Volkskanzler.Theatre film. With Ruth Kröger and Helge Schmidt 2021
Bunter Fleck. Music video. Lia Sahin. Kampnagel 2020
Ode an die Freiheit. Tripthychon based on Friedrich Schiller. With Antù Romero Nunes. 2020
Die fünfte Himmelsrichtung. Documentary Film. Cinema/TV 2017
Winter. Essay Film. Cinema 2016
Le creature del Vesuvio. Essay Film. Cinema 2015
The coffee grounds index. Mixed media installation. Morocco Biennial 2014
Enframing Home II. Mixed media installation. Sharjah Biennial 2013
Enframing Home I. Mixed media installation. Regard Benin Biennial 2012
PHOTOGRAPHY FILM
Das Begräbnis. Jan Georg Schütte. Cinema/TV 2022
Gasman. Arne Körner. Cinema 2019
Weltklimakonferenz – Rimini Protokoll. Lilli Thalgott, Sandra Trostel. D.Schauspielhaus 2016
The Bicycle. Arne Körner. Cinema 2015
Ein Endspiel. Lilli Thalgott. Cinema 2015
Kein Licht II. Akira Takayama. Wiener Festwochen 2013
THEATRE / FILM CONCEPT AND PHOTOGRAPHY
(LIVE) Der Geheimagent. Frank Castorf. Deutsches Schauspielhaus 2021
Der Geizige. Leander Haußmann. Thalia Theater 2021
(LIVE) Hamlet. Jette Steckel. Thalia Theater 2020
(LIVE) Liliom. Kornél Mundruczó. Thalia Theater, Salzburger Festspiele 2019
Strandrecht. Kerstin Steeb. 2019
(LIVE) Hänsel & Gretel. Ene-Liis Semper, Tiit Ojasoo, Till Lindemann. Thalia Theater 2018
Crudeland. Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom. Theater Freiburg 2017
Hausbruch. Eine Pandemie. Ivna Žic. Winkelwiese Zürich 2016
(LIVE) R(h)ein Gold. Nicolas Stemann. Staatsoper Berlin 2014
(LIVE) Kommune der Wahrheit. Nicolas Stemann. Thalia Theater, Wiener Festwochen 2013
DANCE / FILM CONCEPT AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Collaboratory IV. Jenny Beyer. 2021
Horses. Yolanda Morales. 2021
The Triumph of the Golden Glory. Nora Elberfeld and Jonas Woltemate. 2021
Rose la Rose. Carolin Jüngst, Lisa Rykena, Ursina Tossi. 2020
Nerven. Yolanda Morales. 2020
The rest of dance. Ana Laura Lozza, Bárbara Hang. 2020
She Legend. Carolin Jüngst, Lisa Rykena. 2019
Miezen: Copycats. Annika Scharm. 2019
PHOTOGRAPHY MUSIC
Tilbuin. Tom Gatza. 2018
GIVEN WORKSHOPS
PHOTOGRAPHY University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. 2019
FILM Goethe Schule Harburg. 2018
LINKS
FRIENDS martina mahlknecht, dokomotive, miramontefilm, kiné-doc, lilli thalgott, attila boa, phaenomedia, annika scharm, jonas woltemate, marie jung, stückliesel, rykena/jüngst, magazin, freudenhammer, schaller08, ivna zic, stefano bernardi, max andrzejewski, against reality pictures, pose dia, konstantin bessonov, pinkmovies, nicolas humbert