Christine Koenigs
Date of birth
1952
Biography
Christine Koenigs followed the free-painting program at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem. In 1977, she made her first film, Regen, as part of a project that also included paintings and lithographs. For that film, she received the first prize at the International Film Festival of Bilbao. One of her next films, Level from 1982, also won prizes, at the Nederlands Film Festival and at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
In total, Koenigs has made about ten experimental films, almost all of which are conceptual in nature. Koenigs has also made a number of film and video installations that were shown at independent art spaces in Amsterdam such as Aorta and W139.
Christine Koenigs lives and works in Amsterdam.
filmography
- 1977—Director, Producer
- 1981—Director, Producer
- 1981—Director, Producer
- 1982—Director, Producer
- 1982—Director
- 1984—Director, Producer, Script writer