Dominik Zietlow
Filmmaking as an artistic attitude.
Filmmaking as an honest attempt to comprehend more clearly.
Filmmaking to oppose the seduction of dissociation.
Filmmaking to mutual dialogue.
BRUNAUPARK
World Premiere at Visions du Réel, Nyon (Prix du Jury de la Compétition nationale remis par SRG SSR)
Documentary, 2024, 91', DCP, 1.66:1, 5.1
Felix Hergert (Direction), Dominik Zietlow (Camera, Co-Direction)
Langfilm - Bernard Lang AG (Production), Sabotage Filmkollektiv GmbH (Co-Production)
The Brunaupark buildings in Zurich are about to be demolished as their owner, the Crédit Suisse pension fund, wants to build a new property complex. Hundreds of tenants – the victims of this proposal – are contesting their eviction. Hergert and Zietlow paint a portrait of a lively and resilient neighbourhood forced to confront its destiny.
TAUBE FEUER (pw: TFDZ_en)
World Premiere at Solothurn Film Festival (nominated for Visioni Jury Prize)
Film, 2024, 45', DCP, 1.85:1, 5.1
Dominik Zietlow (Direction, Camera, Production), Felix Hergert (Editing)
The film Taube Feuer presents itself as a methodical structure. Five different people communicate in public places with a person they have never encountered before. They are isolated from their acoustic environment by noise-cancelling headphones. Thoughts drift into a dialogue with their counterpart, their bodies meandering in real space. As these people talk to each other for the first time, possibilities of trust and empathetic listening arise.
How are personal relationships discussed in public places? With its witness-like monuments, public places are soaked in narratives. When people tell stories, they draw on the past and reach into the future. The distant is brought close. Stories emerge within stories within stories. The place remains and absorbs these newly created incidents. What remains after this artistic play in these places?
The disposition of the figures intersects with the concrete surroundings. Inner and outer worlds merge. This oscillation between fictional narration and documentary coincidences forms narratives beyond spoken language. Using filmic means, these elements are put together as a mosaic and composed into a collective reflection on human experience.
SONIC TOPOLOGIES
Excerpts from filmic essays for Sonic Topologies Festival
Episodes between 3-5', 4K, stereo
Tillo Spreng (Direction, Editing), Dominik Zieltow (Camera, Colorgrading)
How many ways are there to listen to a place? The project SONIC TOPOLOGIES unfolds the sounds of diverse sites in Zurich – a botanical garden, a swimming pool, a water reservoir and a lake shore. In a festival during June 2022, artists, scientists and architects develop site-specific concerts, talks and workshops that reveal hidden, overlooked and speculative sounds in the urban landscape. The festival opened up spaces of shared sounding, listening and thinking and enabled encounters across species and disciplinary boundaries.
LE ROUGE DANS LE BLEU
Work in Process
Film, 2024, 25'
Rozenn Veauvy, Margot Ngyen, Nicolas Faubert, Michèlle Schwartzmann and Tania Gheerbrant
Dominik Zietlow (Direction, Camera, Production)
Ahmed Fi Beriz (Assistant Camera)
Reffering to the Zurich episode Taube Feuer, Le Rouge dans le Bleu represents the Parisian part of this methodical approach. It brings together Parisian narrators. With noise-cancelling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible person. In a detached state, they mingle in space and clash with their immediate surroundings. Intimate questions and needs are explored. The private merges into a mutual common portrait.
CREAZIUN
Documentary, 2022, 13', 1.33:1, stereo
Felix Hergert (Direction), Dominik Zietlow (Camera)
The four renowned Swiss composers Katharina Weber, Christian Wolfahrt, Mathias Steinauer and Annette Schmucki explored the question of what it means to compose for improvisers and developed pieces for the Slide Ensemble, an international quartet for new music. The result of this co-creative collaboration was presented at concerts in Biel, Zurich, Locarno and Bern.
Video work in exhibition settings
Born in 1988, studied photography at the HfBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste) Hamburg, RCA (Royal College of Art) in London and at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts). Since 2023 Master's degree in Cinematography at the ZHdK. Works as a freelance filmmaker and photographer with an artistic practice.
Scholarships/Awards
2024 Jury Prize in the national competition at Visions du Réel for Brunaupark
2023 Award of the Departement of Zurich
2021 Residency at Cité des Arts Paris, 6 months, Paris
2021 Covid working scholarship, Cultural Departement City of Zurich
2020 Award of the City of Zurich
2019 Research scholarship Coincidencia Pro Helvetia, Patagonia, Chile
2015 Studio scholarship Herdern, ZHdK, Zurich
Collections
Art collection City of Zurich
Art collection City of Lucerne
Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Zentral!, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Werkschau 2023, Kantonale Werkstipendien Zürich, Haus Konstruktiv
Wellness, Sic! Elephanthouse, Luzern (solo)
Intermezzi, Tiefparterre Kunstraum Kreuzlingen (solo)
2022
Transaction of (geo)graphies, Santa Cruz, Bolivien
2021
Metro Station Ñuñoa, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Passage World, Parce Cultural de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
Imaginazun, Casa Lechmann, Sumvigt, Graubünden
Uassyn Videointervention, Jazzklub Moods, Zürich
A forest of many worlds, La capsula, Zürich
2020
The Thin Edge, la_capsula, Zürich
Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich 2020, Helmhaus, Zürich
GamutReWind, Schönegg Variéte, Zürich
Through states of matter, Kollaboration mit Tobias Meier, Moods, Zürich
2019
Jahresausstellung Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffende 2019, KML, Luzern
Lata Colectiva, Punta Arenas, Chile
(z)orten 19, Zorten, Graubünden
Zwischen Stahlträger und White Cube, Alte Fabrik Rapperswil, St. Gallen
2018
|| (Caesura) (solo), Coalmine, Winterthur
2017
Redes de Desierto – Performanz, San Luis Potosi, Mexiko
2016
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich
fond perdu, Neubad Galerie, Luzern
Kunstpause, Shedhalle Zug, Zug
2015 Koriu, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Imperial Line, Kunstraum 5.k12, Zürich
Spread the Message 1 + 2, in situ, Zürich
Teaching
2018–23 Artistic and technical seminars, Jury, Photography Departement, F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich
2018–23 Responsibility for the photography studio and printing workshop, F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich
2015–16 Seminar materializing Photography, Specialization Photography, DKM, ZHdK, Zurich
Assistant
2013–2017 Marianne Mueller
2013–2016 Jules Spinatsch
Dominik Zietlow
Filmmaking as an artistic attitude.
Filmmaking as an honest attempt to comprehend more clearly.
Filmmaking to oppose the seduction of dissociation.
Filmmaking to mutual dialogue.
BRUNAUPARK
World Premiere at Visions du Réel, Nyon (Prix du Jury de la Compétition nationale remis par SRG SSR)
Documentary, 2024, 91', DCP, 1.66:1, 5.1
Felix Hergert (Direction), Dominik Zietlow (Camera, Co-Direction)
Langfilm - Bernard Lang AG (Production), Sabotage Filmkollektiv GmbH (Co-Production)
The Brunaupark buildings in Zurich are about to be demolished as their owner, the Crédit Suisse pension fund, wants to build a new property complex. Hundreds of tenants – the victims of this proposal – are contesting their eviction. Hergert and Zietlow paint a portrait of a lively and resilient neighbourhood forced to confront its destiny.
TAUBE FEUER (pw: TFDZ_en)
World Premiere at Solothurn Film Festival (nominated for Visioni Jury Prize)
Film, 2024, 45', DCP, 1.85:1, 5.1
Dominik Zietlow (Direction, Camera, Production), Felix Hergert (Editing)
The film Taube Feuer presents itself as a methodical structure. Five different people communicate in public places with a person they have never encountered before. They are isolated from their acoustic environment by noise-cancelling headphones. Thoughts drift into a dialogue with their counterpart, their bodies meandering in real space. As these people talk to each other for the first time, possibilities of trust and empathetic listening arise.
How are personal relationships discussed in public places? With its witness-like monuments, public places are soaked in narratives. When people tell stories, they draw on the past and reach into the future. The distant is brought close. Stories emerge within stories within stories. The place remains and absorbs these newly created incidents. What remains after this artistic play in these places?
The disposition of the figures intersects with the concrete surroundings. Inner and outer worlds merge. This oscillation between fictional narration and documentary coincidences forms narratives beyond spoken language. Using filmic means, these elements are put together as a mosaic and composed into a collective reflection on human experience.
SONIC TOPOLOGIES
Excerpts from filmic essays for Sonic Topologies Festival
Episodes between 3-5', 4K, stereo
Tillo Spreng (Direction, Editing), Dominik Zieltow (Camera, Colorgrading)
How many ways are there to listen to a place? The project SONIC TOPOLOGIES unfolds the sounds of diverse sites in Zurich – a botanical garden, a swimming pool, a water reservoir and a lake shore. In a festival during June 2022, artists, scientists and architects develop site-specific concerts, talks and workshops that reveal hidden, overlooked and speculative sounds in the urban landscape. The festival opened up spaces of shared sounding, listening and thinking and enabled encounters across species and disciplinary boundaries.
LE ROUGE DANS LE BLEU
Work in Process
Film, 2024, 25'
Rozenn Veauvy, Margot Ngyen, Nicolas Faubert, Michèlle Schwartzmann and Tania Gheerbrant
Dominik Zietlow (Direction, Camera, Production)
Ahmed Fi Beriz (Assistant Camera)
Reffering to the Zurich episode Taube Feuer, Le Rouge dans le Bleu represents the Parisian part of this methodical approach. It brings together Parisian narrators. With noise-cancelling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible person. In a detached state, they mingle in space and clash with their immediate surroundings. Intimate questions and needs are explored. The private merges into a mutual common portrait.
CREAZIUN
Documentary, 2022, 13', 1.33:1, stereo
Felix Hergert (Direction), Dominik Zietlow (Camera)
The four renowned Swiss composers Katharina Weber, Christian Wolfahrt, Mathias Steinauer and Annette Schmucki explored the question of what it means to compose for improvisers and developed pieces for the Slide Ensemble, an international quartet for new music. The result of this co-creative collaboration was presented at concerts in Biel, Zurich, Locarno and Bern.
Video work in exhibition settings
Born in 1988, studied photography at the HfBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste) Hamburg, RCA (Royal College of Art) in London and at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts). Since 2023 Master's degree in Cinematography at the ZHdK. Works as a freelance filmmaker and photographer with an artistic practice.
Scholarships/Awards
2024 Jury Prize in the national competition at Visions du Réel for Brunaupark
2023 Award of the Departement of Zurich
2021 Residency at Cité des Arts Paris, 6 months, Paris
2021 Covid working scholarship, Cultural Departement City of Zurich
2020 Award of the City of Zurich
2019 Research scholarship Coincidencia Pro Helvetia, Patagonia, Chile
2015 Studio scholarship Herdern, ZHdK, Zurich
Collections
Art collection City of Zurich
Art collection City of Lucerne
Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Zentral!, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Werkschau 2023, Kantonale Werkstipendien Zürich, Haus Konstruktiv
Wellness, Sic! Elephanthouse, Luzern (solo)
Intermezzi, Tiefparterre Kunstraum Kreuzlingen (solo)
2022
Transaction of (geo)graphies, Santa Cruz, Bolivien
2021
Metro Station Ñuñoa, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Passage World, Parce Cultural de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
Imaginazun, Casa Lechmann, Sumvigt, Graubünden
Uassyn Videointervention, Jazzklub Moods, Zürich
A forest of many worlds, La capsula, Zürich
2020
The Thin Edge, la_capsula, Zürich
Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich 2020, Helmhaus, Zürich
GamutReWind, Schönegg Variéte, Zürich
Through states of matter, Kollaboration mit Tobias Meier, Moods, Zürich
2019
Jahresausstellung Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffende 2019, KML, Luzern
Lata Colectiva, Punta Arenas, Chile
(z)orten 19, Zorten, Graubünden
Zwischen Stahlträger und White Cube, Alte Fabrik Rapperswil, St. Gallen
2018
|| (Caesura) (solo), Coalmine, Winterthur
2017
Redes de Desierto – Performanz, San Luis Potosi, Mexiko
2016
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich
fond perdu, Neubad Galerie, Luzern
Kunstpause, Shedhalle Zug, Zug
2015 Koriu, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Imperial Line, Kunstraum 5.k12, Zürich
Spread the Message 1 + 2, in situ, Zürich
Teaching
2018–23 Artistic and technical seminars, Jury, Photography Departement, F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich
2018–23 Responsibility for the photography studio and printing workshop, F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich
2015–16 Seminar materializing Photography, Specialization Photography, DKM, ZHdK, Zurich
Assistant
2013–2017 Marianne Mueller
2013–2016 Jules Spinatsch