A Composer

film type documentary film Production Country Germany, Lebanon production year 2014 runtime 18'00 colour
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.

www.danielkoetter.de/projekte/a-composer

director Daniel Kötter Besetzung / Cast Zad Moultaka Schnitt / Editing Daniel Kötter Bildgestaltung / DOP Daniel Kötter Produktion / Production Daniel Kötter Drehbuch / Script Daniel Kötter Tongestaltung / 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, Germany
Production
Sales
  • Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • +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