Konstantin Flemig
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Konstantin Flemig | |
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 Flemig in Northern Iraq | |
| Born | Konstantin Friedrich Flemig 21 September 1988 |
| Citizenship | German |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Website | www |
Konstantin Friedrich Flemig (born 1988) is a German director of documentary films.
Flemig was born near Stuttgart, Germany. He started filmmaking as a teenager, creating stunt videos and mockumenatries in the style of MTV Jackass.[1] For his application for film school, he travelled to Congo to make a film about a luxury restaurant.[2]
He attended the German School of Journalism before studying documentary filmmaking and screenwriting at the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.[3] For his film BilderKrieg - Picturing War he won the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award[4] as well as the Special Mention Award at the International Open Film Festival.[5] The documentary about a young German war photographer was produced by German television SWR and was screened at multiple international film festivals.[6][7][8][9][10]
For his short documentary Exit Exit Exit, he took a course offered by the German Army for war correspondents. He is one of Werner Herzog's rogues, a group of young filmmakers who attended his Rogue Film School seminar.[1] The curriculum consists of topics like " the art of lockpicking", "the creation of your own shooting permits" and "Guerrilla tactics".[11]
After publicly criticizing the Turkish invasion of Syrian Afrin in 2018, Flemig received several death threats.[12]
Since the summer of 2022, Flemig has been on camera for the German YouTube channel CRISIS - Hinter der Front operated by Funk as a war reporter from the crisis areas of Ukraine, South Ossetia, Syria and Afghanistan, among others.[13]
Filmography
- Documentaries
- Kinshasa à la carte (2010) (short film)
- Exit, Exit, Exit - War reporters in training (2012)
- Irtidad (2013)
- Picturing War (2016)
