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About Me

RINOCEROSE "Cubicle" / music video /
directors: AlexandLiane / director of photography: Ali /
choreography: Mathilde Monnier / V2 (France)
DAVE CLARKE feat. CHICKS ON SPEED / music video /
directors: AlexandLiane /
director of photography: Ali / shot in the Rio, Berlin
MILCHWALD / LE BOIS LACTE / THIS VERY MOMENT
cinema trailer for the movie / director: C. Hochhäusler
director of photography: Ali / shown @ Berlinale
.. .. .. .. ..
EL NINO / a scene from the short film /
music: Rudi Moser (Einstürzende Neubauten) &
Christian Meyer /
director & director of photography: Ali
WAX AND WANE / short film /
director: A. Koenzen /
co-director & director of photography: Ali /
with Emilie Irvin / shown @ CannesFilmFestival
..
>> visit my film site to see more films//music videos, I shot:
POEM / FINNLANDIA with Marc Hosemann //
TIEFSCHWARZ & CHIKINKI / TERRANOVA / MADSEN /
DAVE CLARKE & CHICKS ON SPEED / NIKE / and more

My Interests



I'd like to meet:



>> click here to see the movie

WHAT IF a short film
with Emilie Irvin & David Birkin
incl."Car Tu T'En Vas" song covered by
SexInDallasBiladollKidnap for the film
directed by Ali

Music:



Movies:

Yasujiro Ozu / Robert Bresson / Douglas Sirk /
John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands / Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski / Louis Malle / Krzysztof Kieslowski / Andrei Tarkovsky / Carl Theodor Dreyer / Ingmar Bergman / Michelangelo Antonioni / Luchino Visconti / Jean Cocteau / Stanley Kubrick / Chris Marker /
Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Maya Deren / Joseph von Sternberg /
Pier Paolo Pasolini / Yilmaz Güney / David Lynch //
CITY LIGHTS, Charles Chaplin /
MODERATO CANTABILE, Peter Brook, Marguerite Duras, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Paul Belmondo /
MARNIE, Alfred Hitchcock /
MILLENNIUM MAMBO, Hou Hsiao-Hsien /
L'ANNE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, Alain Resnais /
TESS, Roman Polanski /
GERMANIA ANNO ZERO, Roberto Rosselini /
BADLANDS, Terrence Malick /
MADEMOISELLE, Tony Richardson, Jean Genet, Jeanne Moreau /
BELLE DE JOUR, Luis Bunuel /
LES AVENTURIERS, Roberto Enrico /
FAHRENHEIT451, Francois Truffaut /
8 1/2, Frederico Fellini /
CRIAS CUERVOS, Carlos Saura, Geraldine Chaplin /
L'IMPORTANT C'EST D'AIMER, Andrzej Zulawski, Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski /
LES CHOSES DE LA VIE, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider /
SOY CUBA, Mikheil Kalatozishvili /
KES, Ken Loach /
BARFLY, Barbet Schroeder, Charles Bukowski, Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke /
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR,
D.W. Griffith /
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, Michel Gondry /
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, Wong Kar-Wai /
SOUSHOU RIVER, Lou Ye /
KLUTE / Alan J. Pakula, Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda /
THE GETAWAY, Sam Peckinpah, Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw //
Andy Warhol's casting shots on black&white-16mm film //
Sven Nyquist / Nestor Almendros / Gordon Willis /
Harris Savides //
Alexander Kluge / Helmut Färber, for opening my eyes //
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, Weerasethakul Apichatpong /
Jean-Luc Godard:
Michelangelo Antonioni:
(Zabriskie Point)
Finnlandia
Poem
Milchwald / This Very Moment / Le Bois Lacte
Lacoma

Television:



Books:

Thomas Pynchon / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Klaus Mann /
Carl Gustav Jung / Raymond Carver / Jon Fosse / Lacan /
Truman Capote / Sarah Kane

Heroes:

Moses Mendelssohn / Sarah Bernhardt / Rebiya Kadeer

Occupation

Income
$100

Captain Comatose / Ali M. Demirel

My Blog

in memory of Ingmar Bergman / video-interviews

"Ingmar Bergman is probally the only genius in cinema"-Woody Allen . And this is the third and last part of the interview - for me it is the most interesting... He speaks ...
Posted by Ali on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST

CINEMA IS NOT DEAD! / Francis F. Coppola after "Apoclypse Now" about his hope for new cinema

... after hundreds of shooting days and spending millions of dollars in the jungle, he received the Golden Palm in Cannes for APOCALYPSE NOW. He tells us about his hope for cinema in the future (in 19...
Posted by Ali on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:26:00 PST

"there is no avantgarde without arrièregarde" Alexander Kluge about youtube & silent movies

Alexander Kluge: Also, zum Beispiel die Geschichte vom Kino in Beirut, das von Raketen zerstört ist, aber auf dem Betonboden ist schon wieder ein Zelt, und die Projektoren rattern schon wieder. Eine a...
Posted by Ali on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:35:00 PST

"no morals without style and no style without morals" Ingrid Caven about R. W. Fassbinder

MAN KANN UNS NICHT EINFACH AUSRADIEREN"No morals without style and no style without morals,"actress, chanson singer and between 1970 and '72 wife of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingrid Caven, tells (...)...
Posted by Ali on Wed, 30 May 2007 02:48:00 PST

"The world is getting smaller" David Grossman/Writing in the Dark@Arthur Miller lecture/PenClub

"To our joy or to our misery, the contingencies of reality have a great influence on what we write," says Natalia Ginzburg in her book "It's Hard to Talk About Yourself," in the chapter in which she d...
Posted by Ali on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:18:00 PST

Doug Aitken's "Sleepwalkers" @ MoMA, with Tilda Swinton, Donald Sutherland, Cat Power

Shown at the MOMA, here is the trailer: ...
Posted by Ali on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:54:00 PST

Maya Deren's "Meshes Of The Afternoon"

Meshes of the Afternoon Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Ali on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:11:00 PST