DIRECTORS
Jenny Gand
GENRES / ACTIVITIES
Documentation Cinema, Documentation TV, Image, Motion Picture / Feature, Shortfilm, Music Video, Theater, Commercial
CONTACT
Jenny Gand
Wien / Vienna
Tel Mobil: +43-699-81 22 42 48
Wien / Vienna
Tel Mobil: +43-699-81 22 42 48
CAREER
Jenny Gand is a Vienna-based director who was born in East-Berlin in 1978. She is working in the film industry since 1998 and started working as a filmmaker in 2008. Her work covers shorts and documentaries as well as commercials and narrative fashion/ music videos. Jenny Gand studied German literature, philosophy and art history in Cologne. After moving to Vienna in 2006 she worked as assistant director at Burgtheater and completed a Master degree in film and TV production at Universität Krems. Her first feature length documentary, "Wild Mint", had its theatrical release in 2010 and her last short film "Snowdrop" was screened in the competition of the 35th Film Festival Max Ophüls in 2014. She worked on many different projects such as an animation series for kids, short films and fashion videos. Currently she is working on her first feature film former "Mauerland" which is in the script development stage and was part of the Diverse stories programm in 2014. Jenny Gand has been 10 years on the executive board of the Austrian Directors Association (ADA) and 5 years as co-chairwoman. She is a member of the drehbuchFORUM Vienna and of FC Gloria, a network for women in film business.
English, French
directing, scriptwriting / concept
"YLVA"| fashion film | Official Selection: Miami Fashion Film Festival, USA 2014, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, GB 2015, Australian Int. Fashion Film Festival, AUT 2015 - "Schneeglöckchen" | short film | Official Selection: Filmfestival Max Ophülspreis 2014 - "Der Geheimniskrämer"| short film | 3th price, Dr. Hans-Hoch-Filmpreis, Schleswig-Holstein 2002
ON SCREEN
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VIDEOS
In between spaces
An agent on a mission and a stranger. But instead of hunting the enemy, it becomes a journey towards our deepest longings... end of chapter one... We
2016
fashion video
YLVA
A mysterious ritual, fire, smoke and surreal landscapes. A young woman on her trip between dream and reality.
2014
fashion video
Snowdrop
A group of refugees tries to cross the EU-border.
2014
short film
FILMOGRAPHY
TITEL
YEAR
GENRE
INFOS
ZwischenZeit (ehemals "Mauerland")
seit 2014
Motion Picture / Feature
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: ZwischenZeit (ehemals "Mauerland")
| Subtitle | in script development | |
| Year | seit 2014 | |
| Minutes | ca. 100min. | |
| Genre | Motion Picture / Feature | |
| Assignment | script, director | |
| Production | N.N. |
In between spaces - chapter 2
2019
Music Video
In between spaces - chapter 1
2016
Music Video
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: In between spaces - chapter 1
| Subtitle | fashion video | |
| Year | 2016 | |
| Genre | Music Video | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | concept, director | |
| Production | NACHTFILM | |
| Contents | An agent on a mission and a stranger. But instead of hunting the enemy, it becomes a journey towards our deepest longings... End of chapter one... | |
| Web | https://vimeo.com/160895198 |
Custom Color For You
2015
Commercial
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: Custom Color For You
| Year | 2015 | |
| Minutes | 1:38 | |
| Genre | Commercial | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | concept, director, production | |
| Production | NACHTFILM | |
| Releases | online | |
| Web | https://vimeo.com/140789062 |
Beauty Lash
2014
Commercial
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: Beauty Lash
| Year | 2014 | |
| Minutes | 4:16 | |
| Genre | Commercial | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | concept, director | |
| Production | nachtfilm | |
| Contents | online-commercial | |
| Web | https://vimeo.com/116000196 |
RefectoCil Sensitive
2014
Commercial
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: RefectoCil Sensitive
| Year | 2014 | |
| Minutes | 4:23 | |
| Genre | Commercial | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | concept, director | |
| Production | NACHTFILM | |
| Contents | online-commercial | |
| Web | https://vimeo.com/122054409 |
Snowdrop
2014
Shortfilm
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: Snowdrop
| Year | 2014 | |
| Minutes | 15min. | |
| Genre | Shortfilm | |
| Format | RED 4K / | |
| Assignment | Screenplay / Directress | |
| Production | nachtfilm | |
| Releases | Int. premiere at 35th film festival Max Ophüls | |
| Contents | With the help of smugglers, a small group of refugees tries to cross the border between the Ukraine and Slovakia. Among the refugees is a 33-year-old man called Yassir from Somalia and Seda an Armenian woman with her 12-year-old daughter Armine. She attempts to flee to Austria, where her husband, Armine’s father, is waiting for them. But the escape takes an unfortunate turn when Armine loses her talisman, a snowglobe... SNOWDROP is a short film telling the story of a group of refugees trying to cross the EU border. It´s about hope and dreams but also about real life tragedy. And eventually it´s a film about the pursuit of happiness and it´s power. | |
| Web | http://www.schneegloeckchen.at |
YLVA
2014
Music Video
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: YLVA
| Subtitle | fashion video | |
| Year | 2014 | |
| Minutes | 4:17 | |
| Genre | Music Video | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | concept, directed, edited (part) & produced | |
| Production | nachtfilm | |
| Releases | 2014 | |
| Contents | A mysterious ritual, fire, smoke and surreal landscapes. A young woman on her trip between dream and reality to find her second part, the wolf inside her. There is a wolf in every woman - which combines tenderness and feminity and strength and animalism. YLVA is a Nordic name that means "she-wolf". Affection for animals and nature, combined with creative urbanity, characterizes the products that stand out by their unique design and the individuality of being hand-made. The wolf as a symbol of strength, togetherness and a touch of mysticism is the heart piece of each collection. | |
| Web | https://vimeo.com/92142465 |
happy pets
2013
Image
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: happy pets
| Year | 2013 | |
| Minutes | 0:45 / 2:30 | |
| Genre | Image | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | Directress | |
| Production | BLICKPUNKTTON | |
| Releases | may 2013 |
The land of swinging stones (working title)
2012
Documentation TV
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: The land of swinging stones (working title)
| Year | 2012 | |
| Minutes | 52min. | |
| Genre | Documentation TV | |
| Format | Full HD | |
| Assignment | Script | |
| Production | mokino filmproduction & epo-film | |
| Releases | app. 2013 | |
| Contents | ServusTV |
Island
2011
Music Video
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: Island
| Year | 2011 | |
| Minutes | 5:02 | |
| Genre | Music Video | |
| Format | HD | |
| Assignment | Script / Director / Production | |
| Production | nachtfilm | |
| Releases | online | |
| Contents | At first sight, "Eiland" ("Island") seems to be another lovesong about another failed relationship. But this is only one side. The musicvideo shows a quest through urban spaces and natural environments and reveals the desire for clarity and identity. Further informations about SANDA, the Hip Hop artist: www.sandamusic.com | |
| Web | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNQTNLdRAtk |
Don´t forget me, when I become weak
2011
Image
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: Don´t forget me, when I become weak
| Year | 2011 | |
| Minutes | 13:36 | |
| Genre | Image | |
| Format | HD | |
| Assignment | Script / Director / Editing | |
| Production | nachtfilm | |
| Releases | published on DVD and online | |
| Web | http://vimeo.com/31841899 |
Wild Mint
2009
Documentation Cinema
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: Wild Mint
| Year | 2009 | |
| Minutes | 85 | |
| Genre | Documentation Cinema | |
| Format | DV | |
| Assignment | Script / Director / Cinematography / Editing | |
| Production | Association Remembering for the Future, Vienna | |
| Releases | Premiere 6th nov. 2009, Villach, Carinthia / At the Austrina Cinemas: 5th nov. 2010 | |
| Contents | She travelled a lot; across the whole wide world: Helga in Italy with a campervan, Helga at picnic on the Pacific Coast, Helga at her weekly choir get-togethers. The kitchen fridge is humming. In the end: the last photograph with her whole family taken in Sonnenstraße in Villach, Austria. A scarf. A bracelet. Not much has remained. Reminders of the past are scattered across the kitchen table. They are the starting point of a journey through time into the Carinthia of the 1940ies, into a family’s daily vocation against the Nazi regime. A family whose life was brutally torn apart, in effect still is disrupted yet powerfully remembered. ‘Wild Mint’ tells the story of a mother-daughter relationship beyond death, it´s a film on the violent loss of beloved persons, on traumatic experiences as well as on thirst for life and personal strength – above all how to come to terms with the past. Quietly the film follows the flow of remembrance and everyday life of the 80-year-old female protagonist, who surprises with her zest for life, vitality and humour. | |
| Web | http://wildeminze.at |
At our place the found accommodation...
2009
Shortfilm
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: At our place the found accommodation...
| Year | 2009 | |
| Minutes | 8:40 | |
| Genre | Shortfilm | |
| Format | documentary, DV | |
| Assignment | Script / Director / Cinematography / Editing | |
| Production | Verein Erinnern für die Zukunft | |
| Releases | For the exhibition "Was damals Recht war..." Soldaten und Zivilisten vor Gerichten der Wehrmacht | |
| Contents | Helga Emperger, born Peskoller. When Helga was 16 years old, she was arrested by the GESTAPO together with her mother Maria Peskoller in their apartment in Villach on November 11th, 1944. Together they had supported partisans and had helped deserters on the run. On account of being under age Helga escaped prosecution but was kept imprisoned until April 1945. After that she returned to Villach where she still lives today. In the year 2008 she agreed to be interviewed for the very first time. | |
| Web | http://jennygand.com/Jenny_Gand/untergekommen....html |
The telephone call
2008
Shortfilm
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: The telephone call
| Year | 2008 | |
| Minutes | 8:40 | |
| Genre | Shortfilm | |
| Format | DV | |
| Assignment | Director | |
| Production | Jenny Gand | |
| Contents | Andreas, a mobile phone and the woman from the last party - a complex situation. “The Telephone Call“ was conceptualized as a short film for Guido Cord Aengen-heyster’s show reel. I spent a few days with Guido rehearsing in an apartment which was the location for the film. It was important to me to precisely develop the four different characters that Guido was to impersonate. The story plot in a way became secondary. | |
| Web | http://www.jennygand.com/Jenny_Gand/Das_Telefonat.html |
The Apartement House of Hope
2004
Theater
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: The Apartement House of Hope
| Year | 2004 | |
| Minutes | 110 | |
| Genre | Theater | |
| Format | theatre play | |
| Assignment | Script & Director | |
| Production | THEATERCENTRAL GbR. Jenny Gand & Azadeh Fakhran | |
| Releases | 9th, 13th, 15th & 16th Mai, Cologne, Kulturbunker Mühlheim | |
| Contents | One apartment building, four tenants - caught in an oppressive room structure. Familiar with the (un-)natural habitat ‘apartment’, with all its negatives and positives, the viewer experiences the everyday worries and fears as well as the human abyss of the various tenants as a familiar yet startling illustration of society. The human being, deprived of all freedom because of existing social structures, can only act out his/her mannerisms, desires and obsessions by retreat within the boundaries of space. The human being depicted as a survivor within the social structure, depraved in seclusion at the same time. Without a wagging finger the play captures a snapshot of the lives of these people who circulate within resentment, lies, fear and boredom, within self-betrayal and self-abandonment and possibly finally within hope. | |
| Web | http://www.jennygand.com/Jenny_Gand/WH1.html |
De Veritate
2003
Shortfilm
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: De Veritate
| Year | 2003 | |
| Minutes | 4 | |
| Genre | Shortfilm | |
| Format | DVCPro | |
| Assignment | Director | |
| Production | Oliver Menebröcker | |
| Releases | graduate thesis film | |
| Contents | Thomas gradually alienates himself from his everyday life and from his wife Maria. He is trying to look for the truth, he says. Maria can’t get to him anymore, she fails at her attempts. She turns to Gregor, an old friend. He shows her a way to win back Thomas. De Veritate was Oliver Menebröcker’s final project in the subject cinematography at ‚Fraunhofer IZB St. Augustin’ from where he successfully graduated in 2003 as Audio-Visual Media Designer. The film combines classic mise-en-scène with clip elements. | |
| Web | http://www.jennygand.com/Jenny_Gand/De_veritate.html |
yesterday today tomorrow
2002
Theater
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: yesterday today tomorrow
| Year | 2002 | |
| Minutes | 30min. | |
| Genre | Theater | |
| Format | practical course for theatre | |
| Assignment | Script & Director | |
| Production | Jenny Gand | |
| Releases | Studiobühne Cologne, 1st-3rd. June, 2002 | |
| Contents | Short synopsis (excerpt from the concept submission in 2002): The aim is to try and weave a net around the term ‘time’ (‘Zeit’). German compound nouns like “Zeitzeuge“ (contemporary witness), „Zeitgeschehen“ (current events) or „Zeitgenosse“ (a person to spend time with, also: a person from the current era, i.e. a contemporary artist) along with the human desire to express and explain the phenomenon ‘time’ are the core subject matters of this play. Besides a philosophical approach, a sociolinguistic usage of the word ‘time’ shall be examined. Phrases like ‘man muss mit der Zeit gehen’ (having to keep up with the times) or ‘jemand ist seiner/ihrer Zeit voraus’ (somebody is ahead of his/her time) reflect social developments, depict conventions and sketch the image of a certain type of person. The last component of the play is dedicated to how humans sense time (“Zeitgefühl”). Time is perceived as passing quickly, at other times slowly. Sometimes we wish to bring time to a standstill or turn it back or even see into the future. | |
| Web | http://www.jennygand.com/Jenny_Gand/gestern1.html |
The Mystery-monger
2001
Shortfilm
Film-Details
FILM-DETAILS: The Mystery-monger
| Year | 2001 | |
| Minutes | 10 | |
| Genre | Shortfilm | |
| Format | Mini-DV | |
| Assignment | Script & Director | |
| Production | Jenny Gand | |
| Releases | 3rd. Prize (Dr. Hans-Hoch-Filmpreis) 2002 | |
| Contents | The encounter of young and old and the telling of a story show that nothing changes in love. “Illustrated in calm images we experience the story of young and old, of different yet similar experiences without moralizing. A small, wonderful film that keeps you excited with anticipation for the director’s upcoming work.“ Excerpt from the Dr. Hans-Hoch-Filmpreis Schleswig-Holstein jury’s argumentation, who awarded the film with the third prize, 2002. | |
| Web | http://www.jennygand.com/Jenny_Gand/Geheimniskraemer.html |
