Marie-Therese is an award winning director and producer from Austria based in London. Her work ranges from fashion films to music videos as well as audio-visual installations and photography. She is combining 10 years of film production experience as a production manager and assistant director on productions like e.g. 007 Spectre with a MA Fashion Media Production from the UAL | University of the Arts London | London College of Fashion. Pairing wide range of commercial production experience with a strong, visual sensibility, a particular interest in the surreal and the experimental allow her to create a versatile and creative body of work.
Her films screened at the TATE MODERN London, ICA | Institute of contemporary art London, Palais de Tokyo Paris, NOWNESS and numerous film festivals world wide.
Projects
- ABJECTIVEABJECTIVE is a fashion film exploring abject and abjection by the means of hair as a stylistic medium in film. The abject, a term formed by Julia Kristeva, is transported by the ambiguous object of hair, that can be seen on the one hand as object of desire but in this case leads to a break out of crisis triggered by the disgust. The sound level that is once more emphasizing on the inner crisis the main character is undergoing underlines the disruption of the perfect family.
- TATE X ROGER BALLENDelving into the darkness with photography’s documenter of the absurd. Searching in the recesses of the mind and at the edges of human society, the work of American photographer Roger Ballen has garnered a reputation for the disturbing and the grotesque. This profile of the Johannesburg-based image-maker—part of TateShots, a series of documentaries from the Tate that explores contemporary art and artists—delves into Ballen's private universe and his creative practice, where he has spent many ye
- TATE SHOTS x VALIE EXPORTVALIE EXPORT is an Austrian avant-garde feminist artist best known for her photography and radical performances that raise discussions around the female body and the male gaze. VALIE was a mother and a housewife before beginning her artistic career when she moved to Vienna in the Sixties. ‘Feminism at the time allowed you to choose who you are’ says EXPORT. Born as Waltraud Lehner, and later Waltraud Höllinger, in 1967, the artist dropped her father’s and husband’s names to create her new iden
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Projects credited in
- Dialogue between Fashion and DeathMarie-Therese Hildenbrandt is a film maker based in London. She has been selected to present a piece of work in an exhibition in Vienna. She chose to exhibit two actors depicting a poem by Giacomo Leopardi (Dialogo della moda e della morte). As part of the exhibition, I was contracted to create an animation translating the imagery of the poem into illustrations.
Work history
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Extras CoordinatorDownhill | Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 6561 Ischgl, AustriaFreelance
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3rd Assistant Director007 Bond Spectre
- AustriaFreelance
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Skills
- Directing
- Directing Actors
- Choreography
- Music Videos
- Fashion Film
- Fashion Advertising
- Video
- Projection Mapping
- Projection art
- Film Producing
Education
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VR LABEUROPEAN CREATORS LAB
- Munich, Germany
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MA Fashion Media ProductionLCF
- London, United Kingdom
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Awards
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Semi FinalistBlow Up Arthouse International Film Festival
TATE x Roger BallenWinner Best Film Personal WorkBERLIN FASHION FILM FESTIVAL
ABJECTIVE
Nominations | Best Emerging Artist+ Show more