Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Austrian documentary filmmaker whose films mostly deal with worlds that are separated by intangible borders, be they geographical or those of imagination or loss. After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, Clara Trischler lived in Israel for a year, where she worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust documentation archive, participated in films and film festivals, wrote articles about everyday life in Jerusalem and later shot her film “The First Sea”. After several film and festival jobs in Berlin and New York, she studied screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte Buenos Aires, where she rediscovered her love of documentary film (which began with Hi8 camera experiments as a teenager). This led her to Berlin, where she studied documentary film directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg. She has received several grants, is co-curator of the feminist film forum “Feminist Perspectives” in Vienna and has been invited to various residencies and programs (most recently Berlinale Talents, Visits to Ukraine for international artists, Multimadeira).
"Western Sahara - A Country on the Run"
"Feminist Perspectives” forum on current feminist positions, demands and working methods in film