Born in Greenland in 1975 to Danish parents, Ivalo Frank works as a Film Director and Writer based in Berlin. Educated at the University of Lund, Sweden, she holds a BA in philosophy and a MA in anthropology, specialising in film and visual media. She has made documentary films in various countries including Bosnia, China, Greenland and East Germany. The content of her films range from post-war portraits in Sarajevo to cultural perspectives from post-colonial Greenland and in-depth interviews with citizens from the former DDR. She has collaborated with several TV stations including BR (Germany), Metropolis TV (Holland) and APTN (Canada) and her films has been broadcast internationally. Coming from an art background her work has been exhibited around the world, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, the Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre in Copenhagen and in co-operation with Urban Art Stories in Berlin. Ivalo Frank is the director of (amongst others) „Faith, Hope and Greenland“, a documentary revealing the dreams and desires for Greenland’s untapped future, „Upper Reaches of the Arts“, a visual introduction to the contemporary Shanghai art and music scenes and „Wild Dogs of Sarajevo“ a film highlighting war-tourism and survivors of the occupation of Sarajevo. Furthermore, she is a regular contributer to the UK’s Asian Art Newspaper. She speaks Danish, English, German and Spanish. Ivalo Frank is a board member of Kranfilm Collective.
Ivalo Frank receives film grant from the Danish Ministry of Education
to make ‘Look in her Eyes’, a feature film and theater project about childhood abuse.
“At one point someone said to me that victims of incest adds diversity to the world, and however much I felt like kicking his head in, I must agree that, however nuts we might be, we are individuals.”
(from the film)
To be realized in Berlin 2011.
Ivalo Frank receives film grant to realise ‘Echoes’, a rhytmic documentary about a sounds, places and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government and Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 30 min. The film will be part of the art exhibition KUUK curated by Iben Mondrup Salto og Julie Edel Hardenberg. The opening is on the 2nd of September at the Royal Danish Art Academy’s exhibition space Garage (3rd-24th Sep 2010). Followed by an opening at Katuaq in Nuuk, on the 6th of November (6th-27th Nov 2010).
Faith, hope and Greenlandby Ivalo Frank @ Babylon Cinema, Berlin Mitte (www.babylonberlin.de); Thursday 1/4, Monday 5/4, Wednesday 7/4. A film about art, culture, dreams and identity, set in today’s post-colonial Greenland. Documentary, 30 min.
Q&A with the director after the premiere April 1st.
Feature article by Ivalo Frank, Asian Art Newspaper, May 2010 issue
“We govern others and ourselves according to what we take to be true about who we are, what aspects of our existence should be worked upon, how, with what means, and to what ends.” – an article about the concept of governmentality in the work of Turkish artist Asli Sungu.