Thomas Josef Roth

was born in Frankfurt, Germany where he was a student and assistant of

the renowned avant-garde filmmaker Peter Kubelka at the Städelschule

State Academy of Fine Arts. He received a Fulbright Scholarship for The

New School University in New York City where he then lived for ten years.

Afterwards he received a one-year Artist Residency in London.

 

His narrative films A Wishing Woman (2003), The Armor (1993), and

Hildegard von Bingen (1991 / in collaboration with Laura Padgett) have been shown in many film festivals in Europe and the US and won several awards.

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The Armor premiered 1993 in Rome, Italy, played at Cinequest Festival in San José, California, at the Main Forum of Arsenals Festivals in Riga, Latvia and

won the Award for Best Feature at the Philafilm-Philadelphia International Film

Festival.His next feature film A Wishing Woman won 2003 the Festival Director's Award at the MethodFest in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times called the

film in a review "risky, visionary, imaginative" (Kevin Thomas for the LA Times).

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His documentary The Voice of Nothingness - Zen Buddhism and the Kyoto School Philosophy was selected by the London Raindance International Film Festival 2015 and the Princeton Independent Film Festival 2016. Nietzsche

in Sils Maria (2017) premiered at the Nietzsche-Kolloquium in Sils Maria, Switzerland. Un 2021/22 he finished Still the Spy of God - Søren Kierkegaard

in the 21st century and portrayed three contemporary artists in Triptychon 2022.

   

At ACADEMIA.EDU: https://newschool.academia.edu/ThomasJosefRoth/