Milena Gierke

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Milena Gierke

Biography

Milena Gierke, born 1968 in Frankfurt am Main. 1989 – 94 Studies at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, in Peter Kubelka’s class “Film + Kochen” (film + cooking). In 1994 she studied sculpture at the Cooper Union in New York City with Hans Haacke and film history with James Hoberman. Other teachers have been representatives of the US film avant-garde such as Ken Jacobs or Robert Breer. Jonas Mekas has greatly inspired Milena Gierke in her diary films. In 1995 he screened a three-hour retrospective of her work at Anthology Film Archive. Since 2001 she has been a member of the curatorial group “Filmsamstag” at the Filmku...

Acting

1990

Sixteen Candles

as Herself

1991

Time (one week)

as Herself

1992

Stranger II

as Herself

1992

Reflections

as Herself

Production

2009

Zauberzeit

as Director

2012

Stündlich I-III

as Director

1992

Stranger II

as Director

2009

Volver

as Director

1990

Fremder Mann I

as Director

1995

1992

Opernblüte

as Director

1992

Portikus II

as Director

2008

2004

2001

Gestrandet

as Director

2001

Clinic

as Director

2000

Gräser

as Director

1997

1997

Kröten

as Director

1995

Aidswalk

as Director

1993

Klatschmohn II

as Director

1994

2000

Membrane

as Director

2001

Stillesleben

as Director

2004

Gartentränen

as Director

1991

Stündlich I

as Director

1992

1995

Bekanntschaft

as Director

1990

Views I + II

as Director

1990

Views From a Car

as Director

1991

Knocking on Skin

as Director

1990

Sixteen Candles

as Director

1991

Time (one week)

as Director

1992

Reflections

as Director

1993

1996

1996

Windows

as Director

1997

1998

Mainstream

as Director

1999

Towards

as Director

1994

Thanksgiving

as Director

1994

Blessing Animals

as Director

2008

Brooklyn Bridge

as Director

2012

Memorial

as Director

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