Michael Glawogger

Director, writer and cinematographer, Michael Glawogger covers and crosses all genres. World-acclaimed for his essayistic documentaries Megacities (2009), Workingman's Death (2004) and Whores' Glory (2011) in which he portrayed a world of troubled beauty. Renowned for his quirky comedies Slugs (2004) and Contact High (2009), for the drama Slumming (2005) and the literary adaptation Kill Daddy Good Night (2009), he loved to move back and forth between cinematic forms, as well as between filmmaking, photography, and writing — between gentler and more forceful tones. Michael Glawogger died from malaria while shooting in Liberia for his film Untitled, for which he had set out on a one year journey to "give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one’s own curiosity and intuition."