Tama Tobias-Macht :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Tama Tobias-Macht

About the artist

Film director, film editor and art photographer. Studied photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2003-2005). Graduated from film studies at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, with distinctions (2006-2012). NRW Award for Young Film Artists (2012). KHM Office for the Advancement of Gender Equality Prize (2012). NRW P2 Film and Media Grant (2011). Born in Jerusalem, Israel (1982) and lives in Cologne, Germany (since 2005).

Filmography:

Ohne Haus (2013)

Frau Macht (2011)

Kalk Sucht (2009)

Haltestelle Hansaring (2008)

Films

2000 m2 and Garden / 2000m2 mit Garten, 40'

Two women live in one of Cologne’s largest private houses, a villa built in 1912 – with a cat, a dog and their extensive private art collection. A precise camera captures the fastidious furnishings and design of both house and garden, through which the inhabitants, their staff and visitors appear to move in orderly paths. We rarely see the protagonists in close-up, instead they blend in to an overall picture, which holds the viewer’s attention in a symbiosis between art and life. Deliberately rhythmic static camera shots allow us time to take in the myriad details. Just before it moves on, the film shows us a cross-section of this unique place, where living space and art space mingle.