Thomas Tode works in Hamburg as freelance writer, curator and filmmaker. In his research and teaching he focuses on essay film, the Soviet avant-garde, and political documentary film. Special interests are films on architecture, archeology, and those made for “re-education”. Film programmes, symposia and exhibitions curated by Tode include „Angesichts des Äußersten: Die Filme über die Befreiung der Konzentrationslager und der lange Schatten der Bilder” (Univ. Hamburg, 2015), “Die erwartete Katastrophe. Luftkrieg und Städtebau 1940–45” (Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg, 2013), “PhotoFilm!” (National Gallery of Art Washington, 2012; Tate Modern London, 2010), and “bauhaus & film” (Barbican Centre London, 2012; Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Hamburg 2009), for which he tracked down film and light installation pieces by Bauhaus artists, many of which were thought lost. His films include Die Hafentreppe (1991), Im Land der Kinoveteranen: Filmexpedition zu Dziga Vertov (1996), Hafenstrasse Revisited (2010), and Das Große Spiel: Archäologie und Politik (2011). He is the author of several books, including “Johan van der Keuken: Abenteuer eines Auges” (1987/1992), “Chris Marker – Filmessayist” (1997), “Dziga Vertov – Tagebücher / Arbeitshefte” (2000), “Dziga Vertov – Die Vertov-Sammlung im Österreichischen Filmmuseum / The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum” (2006), “Viva Fotofilm – bewegt / unbewegt” (2010), “Der Essayfilm – Ästhetik und Aktualität (2011), and bauhaus & film” (2012). Tomas Tode is a director of Dreams Rewired presented during 13. edition of the festival Millennium Docs Against Gravity.
2016-04-17
