Ingo Petzke (born 18 September 1947 in Belm near

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a populat ...

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) is an internationally acknowledged German film scholar, filmmaker and author. Ingo Petzke grew up in

. He attended the

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and Bochum universities and received his master's degree in 1973 (Journalism, Scandinavian Studies, Modern History). Petzke started his professional career in 1976 in

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as one of Germany's youngest directors of an adult education school but fell more and more to the lure of Film. For several years he worked in the Festivalkommission of

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and together with his students ( Heiko Daxl and others) started the Osnabrück Experimentalfilm Workshop in 1980 which since 1988 is known as European Media Art Festival. In 1974 he was adjunct lecturer for film at Ruhr Universität Bochum and between 1978–1983 at Universität Osnabrück. Since then he lectured in 31 countries, among them

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, the

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and

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. In 1986 the Philippine government awarded him for „International Contribution to Philippine Independent Cinema" His (experimental) shorts screened at numerous domestic and foreign festivals. 1976–2000 his company CINE PRO acted as sole German distributor specialised in Avant-garde/Experimental Film. During the 80s Petzke was a member of the Film Commission of

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- German Culture Institute, for which he curated several packages of Experimental films and Shorts. Since 2007, he run
Red Avocado Film
a DVD edition dedicated entirely to experimental film. Since 1983 Petzke has been Professor for Film at the Design Faculty of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. He lived and worked several turns in Australia: 1992 as Visiting Professor at

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and 2001 - 2006 as Associate Professor at

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on the Gold Coast. In 2004 he earned his "PhD by Published Works" about

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. Additionally, he was awarded a Dr. phil. degree in 2006 at Universität Osnabrück with a film historical dissertation about Hollywood-based Australian feature film director

Phillip Noyce Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian filmmaker. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama ('' Newsfront'', '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'', '' The Quiet American''); thrillers ('' Dead ...

. In 2008 he was appointed

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at the

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's School of Creative Arts and in 2009 appointed Honorary Fellow of the Cairns Institute (For Research in the Tropics), both in Far-North Queensland, Australia. His main areas of interest are the history of the international

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(from 2008 till 2011, he was also Director of the (German) Research Center for Experimental Film) and more recently Australian film. Also, he has frequently done research into

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, particularly for the German Federal government. Petzke is a member of th
German Film Critics Association
(VdFk) and o
Screen Producers Association of Australia
(SPAA).

Works

Books

* 1989 Das Experimentalfilm Handbuch, Frankfurt am Main * 1998 Unternehmen im Internet: Web Seiten gestalten, München * 2001 Das grosse Buch Adobe Premiere 6, Düsseldorf * 2004 Backroads to Hollywood – Phillip Noyce, Sydney * 2007 24 Frames - The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, London (''chapter'') * 2007 Kino Sine - Philippine-German Cinema Relations, Manila (''chapter'')

Films

* 1975 ''Glimtar'', 17 mins * 1976 ''Asymptote'', 11 mins * 1977 ''Albedo 0.97'', 13 mins * 1980 ''Jesper'', 11 mins * 1984 ''Hong Kong Topography - Approaches'', 13 mins

External links

Personal web site

Biographical article about Phillip Noyce

DVD of works
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petzke, Ingo 1947 births Living people Film directors from Lower Saxony People from Osnabrück (district) Bond University faculty