Film Directing
Referred to German Public Television by Stockhausen in 1988, Lohner began producing and directing cultural documentaries, mostly portraits of influential artists and scientists of our day; e.g.: film director Abel Ferrara, scientists Edward Lorenz and Murray Gell-Man, philosopher Noam Chomsky, painters Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. To date, Lohner has directed over 100 short films and over 40 feature length documentaries. In 1993 he was selected to represent Germany at the Input International Television Conference. Beyond the afore mentioned art films (The Revenge of the Dead Indians, one 11 and 103, etc.) Lohner is recognized for such films as The Alphabet of Shapes (1994, about Benoit Mandelbrod and Fractal Geometry), Les Prairies de la Mer (1995, about Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle), Create or Die (2003, about actor, director, artist Dennis Hopper), and Ninth November Night (2004, about painter Gottfried Helnwein’s installation commemorating the Reichskristallnacht; shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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