A Composer

film type documentary film Production Country Germany, Lebanon production year 2014 runtime 18'00 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Französisch Subtitles Englisch

Daniel Kötter’s single shot film A COMPOSER documents a car ride by Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka, re-imagining a story, when 10 years ago he was threatened for using the word “Israel” in one of his compositions. A film documenting the assimilation of past and present reflected in the recording situation.

director Daniel Kötter Cast Zad Moultaka Editing Daniel Kötter DOP Daniel Kötter Production Daniel Kötter Script Daniel Kötter Sound Design Marcin Lenarczyk
Festivals
2014 Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
2014 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, Berlin, France
2014 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2015 Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
Production
Sales
  • Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • Germany
  • +49 30 26955110
  • http://www.arsenal-berlin.de

Daniel Kötter

Is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theatre

Filmography
2010 state-theatre #1 LAGOS
2011 state-theatre #2 TEHRAN
2011 state-theatre #3 BERLIN
2012 state-theatre #4 DETROIT
2013 participants and objectives
2013 state-theatre #6 MONCHENGLADBACH
2014 state-theatre #5 BEIRUT
2016 Repetitionen
2016 Ingolfs Oper