Born in Ingolstadt in Germany, Helga Fanderl studied German, Italian and French languages and literature in Munich, Paris and Frankfurt, with an interest in becoming a poet herself. However, quite by chance, she was introduced to super-8 filmmaking via a friend and would soon find herself in the classes of Peter Kubelka.

Since then, Helga has carved a unique career as a film artist, discovering an intensely visual engagement with the world around her. Consistently working with the Super 8 medium, she produces films by in-camera editing, meaning that most of her films are the length of a single reel of film (3-4 minutes) and has now produced over a thousand of these stunning miniature works.

In this episode, Helga discusses her discovery of film as an artistic medium, her first realisations that she could make a "visual poem" and the various fascinations that prompt her to make a film.

At the time of recording, Re:Voir in Paris were about to release a DVD featuring 50 of her films which can now be purchased here:

https://re-voir.com/shop/en/helga-fanderl/1564-helga-fanderl-constellations.html

Her book Constellations (De: Konstellationen) is available in multi-lingual editions from Re:Voir as well as Amazon.