Julia Knobloch

Intimate, quiet, lyrical, and extremely powerful - the documentary The Iran Job is all of the above. Recently, this independently produced film portraying an American basketball player’s season with a club in Iran filled one of the theatres at the IFC Center for nearly three weeks, until Hurricane Sandy brought life in Lower Manhattan to a temporary halt. The great success among the public speaks for the documentary’s importance and validity and its brilliant, entertaining storytelling. Detailed and calm observations of human encounters, spontaneous moments that are allowed to breathe and unfold on screen, and an outwardly neutral yet sharp-eyed political perspective make this documentary debut an astounding one. Filmmaker Till Schauder produced the documentary together with his Iranian-American wife Sara Nodjoumi. He followed Kevin Sheppard, at the time a 29-year old basketball player from the US Virgin Islands, to the Iranian city of Shiraz, where Kevin was under ...

Our edit for our documentary about heringfishermen and yupik culture in the Bristol Bay area in Alaska brought me to Berlin for the summer. 2 more weeks to go and I'll be back in NYC!

I recently finished translating the fantastic long essay "Beethoven's Shadow" by Jonathan Biss for AmazonCrossing and am excited to see it published soon! 

I recently conducted an insightful interview with director Joan Braderman about her documentary about the feminist magazine Heresies. You can find an edited version on telegraph21.com

My article about censorship in Portugal just got published on openDemocracy.

Our Alaska documentary has been green lighted and it looks as if I will spend the spring in snow and ice! Other things that have been going on: I've joind the Advisory Group of the art organization HAWT as media coordinator, and have been writing press releases and web site content for the Theatre Museum NYC and CityKinder. My immigration is moving ahead step by step...

As this year ends, I'm gearing up for new exciting things to come in 2012: My colleague Sandra Pruefer and I are making good progress with the preparations for our Alaska wildlife documentary, and I'm editing last changes in the program for my 'Literay New York' Travel Tour, which I will guide in the spring. Other projects are flourishing as well. A good year, and there's even a better one to come. Happy Holidays!

My latest article for the German Art Magazine Kunst und Auktionen appears on August 26, featuring summer days in NYC: Alexander McQueen, Lyonel Feininger, and the young Mexican artist Erika Harrsch.

My new "Letter from New York" appears these days in Kunst und Auktionen in Germany, featuring Urs Fischer's 6 million record Lamp/Bear, an epic bid marathon at Christie's and Francis Alys' Story of a Deception. English translation under way.

My poem "Blackberry Stains" has been published in the veinzine.blogspot.com Print issue to be released in June.

Read my personal essay about my first year in New York in the Berliner Zeitung! For a link to the article, see German worksamples.

Mein Artikel ueber einen Atelierbesuch bei dem argentinischen Kuenstler Fabian Marcaccio ist in der aktuellen Ausgabe von Kunst und Auktionen zu lesen.

Check out my first post "Master of Internet Puppets" for Reality Sandwich!

My review about Patrício Guzmán's hauntingly poetic documentary about memory, time, the universe and Chile's military dictatorship is up on telegraph21. The link is here on this page, Work Samples in English. Enjoy, it's a fantastic film.

Mein neuer Artikel über die Master Drawings Week New York erscheint am 25.2. in Kunst und Auktionen in Deutschland.

Check out my review about Diary, Tim Hetherington's experimental short film, on telegraph21's blog. The link is under Work Samples English on the right side of this page!

My documentary 'Who sank the Bismarck?' airs tonight, Tuesday Feb 15, on the National Geographic Channel UK at 9pm.

Check out telegraph21's blog for my first review for them. It's about the Oscar nominated documentary short 'Poster Girl' by Sara Nesson. You'll find the link under 'Work Samples English' on this site.

As of February, I will be a contributor for telegraph21's blog. Telegraph21 is a video magazine featuring the best documentary films and art videos from around the world. They've recently celebrated their first anniversary, and I was very impressed to see what they have put together in only twelve months, and I'm really excited to be part of times ahead. So check it out!

"Amerikanisches Bilderbuch", mein neuester Artikel über Ausstellungen in New York (Abstract Expressionist NY, Edward Hopper and His Time, Lee Lozano, Jake Berthot und Norman Rockwell erscheint am 4.2.2011 in Kunst und Auktionen.