Joël Curtz

Joël Curtz is a filmmaker, born in 1985. After completing a scientific baccalaureate in Paris, he joined the École Supérieure des Arts-Décoratifs in Strasbourg and was also assistant to the photographer Patrick Bailly Maitre Grand. He continued his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the tutelage of filmmaker Harun Farocki. He exhibits his photographic and video works in Berlin (Galerie Gilla Loercher) and Vienna (Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky). In pursuit of his post-graduate degree at Le Fresnoy, from 2011 to 2013, Joel completed his first documentary film project The Bride (La Mariée) about the fate of the Italian artist Pippa Bacca. The film is selected for competition at the 25th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) , presented on the RAI Television (Italy) and won several prizes : Prix des Amis du Fresnoy, the Special Mention of the First Creation jury of the Pointdoc Festival and the Audience Award of the...