Saturday, March 18, 2006

Popcorn Calories Unpopped 1 4 Cup



Als ich zum ersten Mal während meines Studiums-Auslandssemesters 2004 einen Fuß auf die Britischen Inseln setzte, kam mir sofort etwas seltsam vor. Wie man so sagt: Aus der Perspektive eines Fremden sieht man ein Land ganz anders, als es dessen Einwohner tun. If people live for a time at a particular location or in a particular country, they are routine, they develop tunnel vision about many things that surround them constantly - everything is commonplace for them. This is obviously the case with the ubiquitous video surveillance cameras in the British Isles. The British themselves seem to have no independent critical thinking to make her she does not even seem to see. However, we - a team of film students from Austria and Spain - have noticed the curious fact immediately, and we asked ourselves: Why so many? These cameras must be insane to be effective in what they do, simply because it is so viele von ihnen gibt. Oder gibt es andere Gründe für deren unglaubliche Verbreitung? Warum verwendet nicht auch jedes andere Land, wenn ihre Effektivität tatsächlich so groß ist, wie es ihre Allgegenwart vermuten lässt?

In weiterer Folge und um unsere Interessen zu befriedigen, entschieden wir, einen Kurzdokumentarfilm zu dem Thema zu produzieren. Während der Recherche- und Drehphasen wurde uns aber schon bald klar, dass das Thema weit mehr hergeben würde, als wir in der kurzen Zeit, die wir für die Produktion zur Verfügung hatten, abdecken konnten. Nichtsdestotrotz gelang es uns, eine Reihe von sehr interessanten Interview mit Top-Leuten ihrer jeweiligen Fachgebiete zu führen – zum Beispiel the surveillance researcher Clive Norris, or the manager of a public video surveillance scheme of a British city. We were able, among other things, provide a considerable short documentary done, but I always had the feeling that this was simply not enough. There was so much more that could give the subject, and what it was worth being treated in the film.

During the following year there were some events that reminded me again of the importance of this documentary project: started in early 2005 the Austrian government for the first time with the installation of public surveillance cameras at special "dangerous places" in the throughout the country. A few months later, the bomb attacks rocked on London Underground trains and a bus the whole world. Despite the fact that the deadly attacks on the complete video surveillance London Underground is not using the watch around the clock cameras could be prevented, for example a further massive expansion of local control was decided.

In that moment I decided that I wanted this project in any case as soon as possible to reopen. That moment came when I had to go for a diploma project. After months of renewed research, I flew back with a new team to Great Britain. We conducted a series of new interviews und drehten jede Menge neues Hintergrundmaterial zum Thema.

Dieses Projekt wäre ohne die Unterstützung und Professionalität von vielen Leuten gar nicht möglich gewesen. All jene sind am Ende des Abspanns aufgelistet. Dennoch will ich an dieser Stelle insbesondere noch einmal meiner Kamerafrau Sigrid Nagele danken, weil sie zur Verfügung stand, als niemand anderes Zeit für das Projekt zu haben schien. Weiters danke ich auch unserer Betreuerin in England, Jenny Morgan – sie hat immer viel mehr getan, als sie musste, und war schlussendlich auch der für mich ausschlaggebende Zündfunke, das Projekt wieder aufzugreifen und abzuschließen. Vielen Dank an alle!


Nino Leitner

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Save The Date Dog Wording






(FH)
Nino Leitner

Vienna / Innsbruck

e-mail:
office [at] ninoleitner.com


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Nino Leitner is a director and artist, born and raised in Innsbruck. He completed his master's degree MultiMediaArt at the University of Salzburg 2006. His fifth Semester he studied as an exchange student in "Film Studies" course at the Solent University in England.

During the half year in England was the 15-minute short version of the documentary "Every Step You Take" of the ever-present in the UK video surveillance in public space and still be considered a critical objective. Nino was the director in the five-member production team, which included also Grkinic Gregory, a fellow student from Salzburg, two other exchange students from Spain as a producer and a "regular" student at Solent University. The international perspective in the film was therefore a matter of course.
The one-hour long version of the document goes much further explain the background and provides a comparison with Austria, which is gradually increased for some time, the public video surveillance. Nino brought the movie to his diploma project, and worked almost a year with a new team to further research and new interviews to give the topic finally an appropriate form.

Other works include the areas of video, film and photography. Already his first short films were some notice for international video festivals, such as "Where you happy?", "Panta", "Mind the Bag" and "artist-lesson". The music video "Mrs. Brain Shaker "for the Austrian pop group" Urban Ego "(in collaboration with Alexander Schönauer and Ivica Putnik) and" together Kualala Lumpur "for the equally successful band Hotchpotch ( Ivica Putnik) provided, inter alia, on several occasions for GoTV sensation. Nino also created several commercials with Stefan Fleig.

operates as a subsidiary occupation for Nino Gerda Eichholzer photography in Innsbruck and Munich. There he has been collecting for many years running through various activities such as setting light of experience as a photographer and cameraman. His photographic skills, he's already several times with works like "The Great Masters" (were simulated in the classical paintings in the studio with models) to the test.

In the summer of 2004 he did an internship in film, sound, and DVD production company Solid Sound Productions "in Hall in Tirol. There he brought his skills, for example in the creation and implementation of animations and menu designs for DVD's production.

2005 Nino completed a multi-month internship at "Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion" in Vienna, known for both advertising and feature films. He was active mainly in the advertising department and was able to bring his wide range of abilities varied.

Nino Leitner also produces commercial video work, but tried to put in all the films in his own ideas. Furthermore, he operated continuously as a cameraman on films by other students. After the enthusiastic work on "Every Step You Take" tried Nino, cooperate in a highly professional international documentary productions. Nino currently lives and works in Vienna.


RECENT AWARDS:

SHORTS ON SCREEN 2007 (category Tirol) of the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) Short Film Award for "time out"
MUVI Award 2006 "BEST MUSIC VIDEO" (the "culture laboratory Stromboli ") for " Hotchpotch - Kualala Lumpur "


RECENT EVENTS etc.:

• EVERY STEP YOU TAKE in DIAGONALE 07 (19th-25th March 2007) -. competing for the BIG DOCUMENTARY AWARD, finalist for the AUDIENCE AWARD
OUT - to ORF1 (Austrian Broadcasting), Thursday, 22 March 2007, 22:55 " shorts and skirts - the long night of short films "
• Presentation of EVERY STEP YOU TAKE, including interview with Nino Leitner at "News from the Austrian film" on 13/03/2007 at 22:25 3Sat, and the repetition of ORF2 on 01/04/2007 at 23:45.
• " Tirol Today" on 03/04/2007 at 19:00 in ORF2 - long interview with Nino Leitner and presentation of EVERY STEP YOU TAKE on the occasion of the high audience rating in the DIAGONALE 07th

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Is Deer Sausage High In Protein

filmography

• "Every Step You Take"
(. Documentary, AUT / UK / ESP 2007, DV, 65 min)

• Test
commercials for "Hutchinson - 3" (about 3 x 0.5 min.), "Power Horse" (2 x 0.5 min.) Fidus Bifidus (approx. 0.5 x 1 min.), (AUT, 2006, DV, on behalf of the Agency Vorauer & friends)

• "time out" (within the 36 hour film competition Instant36)
(short film, AUT, 2006, DV, approx min 5:30.)

• "The postman in the message"
(short film, AUT 2005 DV, 10 min.)

• “Hotchpotch – Kualala Lumpur”
(Musikvideo, AUT 2005, DV, ca. 5 min.)

• “Künstler-Lektion“
(Typografie-Animation, AUT 2004, DV, ca. 2 min.)

• “Constricted Sight”
(Kurzfilm, AUT 2004, DV, ca. 2 min.)

• “Urban Ego – Mrs. Brainshaker“
(Musikvideo, AUT 2004, DV, ca. 4 min.)

• “Mind the Bag“
(Kurzfilm, AUT/UK 2004, DV, ca. 6:30 min.)

• “Leben im Bunker”
(Kurzfilm, AUT 2003, DV, ca. 6:30)

• "Panta"
(short film, AUT, 2003, DV, about 6 minutes.)

• "Where are you happy?"
(short film, AUT, 2002, DV, 3 min.)