Rainer Komers '18

Film studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, master student. Documentaries made in Alaska, Germany, India, Japan, California, Latvia, Montana, Yemen. Prize of German Film Critics (1980), German Short Film Award (2004), Ruhr Prize for Art and Science (2006), Masterclass IDF / Prague (2012), Videonale.scope Retrospective / Cologne (2014); Iasi-Installation 2015; Villa Kamogawa Residency / Goethe-Institut Kyoto (2015). Festival screenings in 35 countries; awards in Canada, France, Poland and USA. Director, cinematographer, Word art, poetry. Lives in Berlin and Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Filmography:

Barstow, California (2018)
Ruhr Record (2014
Milltown, Montana (2009)
Kobe (2006)
NH 2 (2004)
Ofen aus (1995)
Lettischer Sommer (1992)
480 Tonnen bis Viertel vor zehn (1982)
2211 Büttel (1976)

Past events

Films

  • Barstow, California76’

    The documentary “Barstow, California” is recording life & landscape in the Mojave Desert. It's the 3rd film in the trilogy “The American West” (the other two films: “Nome Road System” & “Milltown, Montana”) about places in the sparsely populated areas of the American West. To the trilogy’s style of “landscape listening" is added the voice of Spoon Jackson (an internationally-acclaimed, Barstow-born prisoner/poet) reading passages from his autobiography dealing with his youth & life in the area.

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