Touch the Sound: Thomas Riedelsheimer

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BIO: Thomas Riedelsheimer

Credits as Director and Director of Photography

"Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time", D. 2000, 90 Min, col., S16mm, Regie, Kamera; Prod: Mediopolis, Co-Prod: Skyline Productions fur ARTE, YLE, FFF, www.riversandtides.co.uk

"Metamorphosen" (Metamorphoses) three encounters with death, D 1997/98, 45 and 93 min, colo., Digi Beta 16:9, ZDF and 3Sat

"Lhasa un der Geist Tibets", (Lhasa and the Spirit of Tibet) sites of world culture, D 1996/97, 60 min, col., DigiBeta 16.9

"Schweben Heist Liben" (Floating Means Love) tree people beyond the norm, D 1994, 80 min, col., 16mm, ARTE, ZDF "Das Kleine Fernsehspiel", 3Sat.

"Bildschirmherrschaft" (Government on Air) portrait of the world economic summit of 1992 in Munich, D 1992, 63 min, s/w, 16mm in collaboration with M. Beger & M. Schwerbrock, ZDF, 3Sat

"Sponsae Christi" (The Brides of Christ) the lives and views of three young ordained nuns, D 1991/92, 68 min, col., 16mm, ZDF "Das kl. Fernsehspiel", 3Sat ARTE, BRT, DRS

"Dann werden Sie schon schieben..." three months basic training in the national military, D 1988/89, 60 min, col., SP Highband, ZDF "Das kleine Fernsehspiel", 3Sat

Director Thomas Riedelsheimer

Born in 1963; studied at the Academy for Film and Television in Munich (1984 - 1991). Since 1986 free-lance author, director and cameraman in Germany and abroad (Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa, New Zealand, Latvia, Russia, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Canada, Scotlant, etc.); lecturer at seminars on cinematography at the Film Academy in Munich; own equipment; camera crane, steadicam, lights; camera work on 16mm, S16mm and 35mm, as well as on Beta SP and DigiBeta.

Pre 2001: production work for Riedelsheimer Dokumentarfilm; 2001 till present; director of the film production company Filmquadrat, with partners Stefan Tolz and Thomas Wartmann.