Nils
Clauss is a freelance writer, photographer and filmmaker. Between
November 2003 and February 2004 he spent three months in Hong Kong
as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholar to complete his
final research on his Master thesis. His thesis – completed
at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany – examines how the
characters in Happy Together (Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s
sixth film from 1997) relate to space. Specifically, he seeks a connection
between space and the identity issues of people in Hong Kong before
1997.
During his university studies Nils Clauss worked as a web designer
for the Humboldt University and as a freelance journalist in Berlin.
In 2002 he was involved in the executions of the San Francisco International
Film Festival. From 2000-2001 he was an assistant designer at Kudos
Web design-studio in Melbourne (Australia). Nils Clauss received a
MA in Visual Culture at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany).
In November 2005 Nils Clauss moved to Seoul. Awarded with a scholarship
by Korea Foundation he has been studying Korean language for a year
at Korea University and Kyung Hee University since April 2006. Since
September 2007 he is enroled as a Korean language student at Kyung
Hee University with the support of a scholarship by the Korean governmental
insitution called NIIED. From autumn 2008 onwards he is seeking to
attend a graduate programme for cinematography.
Next to his work as a freelance photographer and a freelance writer,
Nils Clauss has so far shot two short films during his stay in Korea.
Oemyeon (2006)and (un)changed
(2007) were successfully screened at the
2nd and 3rd Korean Film Festival in Muenster, Germany. Oemyeon
also won the Dynamic Korea-Film Competition held by the Korean Embassy
in Berlin.
