Ralf Schmerberg
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"Hommage à Noir" - a journey through the dark continent, an homage to its people and cultures, an intensive confrontation with a "third world", a filmed poem which shows the people of Africa in their full dignity and with their full pride, between traditional rituals and modern everyday life, between palaces and simple huts.

 

This film has no words.
They aren't necessary.

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The power of its images is language enough - underlined with the hypnotic pulse of music from the turn of the 21st century which binds the trance-inducing rhythms of native musicians, recorded on site, with Western electronics.

 

 

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It is a great honour for Ralf Schmerberg to be taken up in this circle of outstanding artists - nothing common for a german photographer.

Ralf Schmerberg is working together with Peter Herrmann since 1992. Peter Herrmanns parts in the project "the tribe of the white warriors" were: opening the contacts to important collectors for getting their objects, advising about the backgrounds of the world of masks, their valences and a suitable treatment of such precious artworks.
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The good relations of Peter Herrmann rendered the realisations of the project/film "Hommage à Noir" in Cameroon possible. He accompagnied the 14-headed filmteam as vice director of production, trouble-shooter and advisor.

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Format: 80 x 108 cm
Euro 1.600.-

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Zusammenfassung der Preise und Auszeichnungen für Hommage à Noir :
1996 - Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival
1997 - New York Filmfestival: Goldmedaille für "Hommage à Noir" für Menschlichkeit
- Goldmedaille für "Hommage à Noir" für Soundtrack
- UNESCO Award Nominierung für "Hommage à Noir"
- Award to the best documentary "Hommage à Noir" International Cinema Festival Elche
- Prize: most original documentary "Hommage à Noir" International Short Film Festival
ALTER-NATIVE 5, T"argu-Mures Rumänien
- The Deimagine Iosif Demian Prize DaKINOInternational Filmfestival, Rumänien
- "Karlovy Vary Filmfestival" Prag - Tschechische Republik
- "Message to Man" Internationales Filmfestival St. Petersburg, Russland
- "Unabhängiges Filmfestival" Elche - Spanien
- Flanders International Filmfestival - Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Leeds International Filmfestival (Great Britain)
- Murphy"s 42nd Cork Filmfestival (Ireland)
- Hollywood Filmfestival
- Hollywood Discovery Awards, Finalist October 1997
- Mar del Plata International Filmfestival (Argentinien), Documentary Window Section
- International Short Film Festival ALTER-NATIVE 5 (Romania)
- 7th DaKINO International Filmfestival (Romania) 1998
- Deutscher Kamerapreis für Hommage à Noir an Franz Lustig, verliehen auf der Photokina

Internationale Wettbewerbe/Screening Hommage à Noir
- Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Perspektiven des jungen deutschsprachigen Films
- Filmfestival Göteborg,
- International Visual Arts Festival Ungarn
- Urbanworlds Filmfestival New York
- International Short Filmfestival Los Angeles