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My film work and CV
Besides the ART-CORE films, I've made several eksperimental videos, and worked as an editor, including the feature films "Gemini", "The Eighteenth" and "Possessed". I also teach video art, review films and more...

Below is my resumé, in the categories:

o FILM DIRECTOR
o FILM EDITOR, FEATURE FILMS
o FILM EDITOR, TV, DOCUMENTARY, SHORT FILMS
o TEACHER
o LECTURER
o WRITER

The
Art Core Trilogy on DVD

CV: STEEN SCHAPIRO

Born in Denmark, 1967.

Nominated as best TV-editor 2010, for FORBRYDELSEN (now being remade for the US as THE KILLING)

FILM DIRECTOR

2006 LOOPS (in production)

1995 FETISH GENERATION

1994 DOMINANS

1992 MISTRESS OF THE RINGS

The ART CORE TRILOGY has been screened at cinemas, many international festivals, and national television. Distributed for schools and public libraries by The Danish Film Institute.

1993 POLYKROM: SHINYA TSUKAMOTO

1993 TRANSIT: LIFETIME

1991 TRANSIT: SPLATTERBOYS

1991 SKIN SOLUTION

1990 TRANSIT: HARD CORE PUNK
Best youth TV program, jugend-tv-festival Hamburg

1984-90 Maker of 10 experimental videos, including fiction, documentaries and visual poetry.



FILM EDITOR, FEATURE FILMS

2010BORA BORA
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber

2003 GEMINI
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber
Jury's special prize, Festival Cinema-Nordique, Rouen

1999 POSSESSED
dir: Anders Klarlund
Main prize at FANTAFESTIVAL in Rome
Melies D´Or, Bruxelles
Nominee: Best editing - Denmark

1996 THE EIGHTEENTH
dir: Anders Klarlund
The Grand Prize - Mannheim Heidelberg Film Festival
Best Film - Nordic Filmdays in Lübeck

"...Razor sharp editing..." Variety, om "Den Attende"

1996 HAITI UNTITLED
dir: Jørgen Leth
(co-editor)



FILM EDITOR, TV, DOCUMENTARY, SHORT FILMS

2009 THE KILLING II (FORBRYDELSEN II) - episodes 3, 4, 6 & 10
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber & Kristoffer Nyholm
TV thriller-series, for Danmarks Radio
Nominated as best TV-editor 2010 - TV-Prisen 2010

2006-7 THE KILLING (FORBRYDELSEN) - episodes 8, 9, 14 & 19
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber & Kristoffer Nyholm
TV thriller-series, for Danmarks Radio

2006 FLAT ROOF
dir: Lars Mathisen
video installation

2006 OUTLANDISH: I ONLY ASK OF GOD
dir: Jakob Kusk
unpublished music video

2005 ROBUST: IDA
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber
documentary

2005 COSTUME PARTY
dir: Maryam Jafri
video installation

2004 THE WORLD OF STRINGS
dir: Jesper Bernt
documentary

2004 ROCKET BRAZIL
dir:Lars Mathisen
video installation, the Danish contribution to the São Paulo Art Biennale

2003 A PORTRAIT OF JOHANNES NIELSEN
dir: Stine Korst
documentary

2003 ON/OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
dir: Lars Mathisen
video installation

2003 WHEN THE WAR IS OVER
dir: Francois Verster
documentary - (co-editor)
Best Documentary, Milan African Film Festival
Best film, Zanzibar International Film Festival

2002 GUILTY
dir: Francois Verster
South African short film

2001 CLOSE
dir: Kassandra Wellendorf
Experimental film (co-editor)

2000 SKJULTE SPOR - episode 5-8
dir: Simon Staho
TV thriller series

2000 GRAVITAS - HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
dir: Kassandra Wellendorf
experimental film

1999 UNFORGETTABLE
dir: Anders Klarlund
short film

1997 SAFE CONDITION: LIVE ACT
dir: Lars Mathisen
video installation

1996 LANDSCAPES
dir: Kassandra Wellendorf
experimental film

1995 HOPE '95
dir: Bynke Maibøll
experimental film

1995 FUNKTION 3+1
dir: Bynke Maibøll
experimental film

1994 PRAYJOB
dir: Bynke Maibøll
experimental film

1994 ASIAN SHOWER
dir: Gritt Uldall-Jessen
experimental film

1993 DETOUR
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber
experimental film

1992 LIFE: PART 3
dir: Hans Fabian Wullenweber
experimental film

Also Film and video-editing for a.o. Nicolas Barbano, Per Flyvehavn, Mette-Ann Schepelern, andHans Lauritsen.



TEACHER
Free-lance film teacher, including:

2008THE ART FOLK HIGH SCHOOL in Holbæk
(guest teacher since 1996)
6-week courses in film editing, experimental film history and video production.

2004 EUROPEAN FILM COLLEGE in Ebeltoft
(guest teacher since 1997)
Workshop in experimental film produktion, lectures on the Art Core Trilogy, etc.



LECTURER
On film and sexual poltics, including:

2005 THE ROYAL ART ACADEMY
- on experimental film

2005 SEX PILOTS and SEX AND SOCIETY
on modernizing sexual education

2005 LYSTHUSET, Århus
on sexual subcultures

2004SUPER16
(guest teacher since 1997)
on experimental films, The Cinema of Transgression, horror films, etc

2004 DFI / Film Workshop
A Day of Experimental Films

2004 EUROPEAN FILM COLLEGE
on David Cronenberg and "Videodrome"

2004 EUROPEAN FILM COLLEGE summer course
on Film and Eroticism

2004 ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY CENTER
on montage editing

2003 DANISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL SEXOLOGY
on modern sexual patterns

2003 KINKY COPENHAGEN
co-organizer, moderator of sexual political debates

2000 LUST
on Moderne Primitives

1998 - EUROPEAN FILM COLLEGE, etc.
on my films, The Art Core Trilogy



WRITER
Essays, features and prose, including:

2008"SEX WORKERS SPEAK OUT"
about the sex worker's website project, Tidens Kvinder 2-08

2007 "JACK ON FIRE"
portrait of the piercer Jack Rubini, Tidens Kvinder 6-07

2007"MADAME SASCHA"
interview with a dominatrix, Tidens Kvinder 6-07

2007"BOMBS IN THE DANISH SEX DEBATE"
interview with Henrik List, Tidens Mand 4-07

2007 "BIRGER & BISSE"
interview with Birger & Bisse Bondo, Tidens Kvinder 3-07

2006 "PORNO IS PERSONAL"
interview with Alsana Sin, Tidens Kvinder 6-06

2006"DOUBLE LIFE"
essay on sexual subcultures in the anthology "Sex on the Edge"

2006"THE MAGICK FILM"
essay on Kenneth Anger for the film magazine Mifune # 13, 2006 - also HERE.

2006"LOVERS - AND STRIPPERS"
interview with Bragi and Sebina, Tidens Kvinder 5-06

2006"AN OPEN RELATIONSHIP"
interview with Justin Allen and Kate, Tidens Kvinder 3-06

2006"FIVE FETISHISTS"
on fetish parties, Tidens Kvinder 2-06

2006"MADAME HELENE AND HER SLAVE"
interview with Madame Helene, Tidens Kvinder 1-06

2005"SHE'S SHOWING PORN WITH FEELINGS"
interview with Barbara Nitke, Tidens Kvinder 6-05

2005"THE REAL DESIRE"
interview with Sebastian Solo, Tidens Kvinder 6-05

2005"SHE'S CHANGING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SEX"
interview with Annie Sprinkle, Tidens Kvinder 5-05

2005"THE WORLD'S FIRST FEMALE-RUN SEX STORE"
interview with Carol Queen of Good Vibrations, Tidens Kvinder 2-05

2005"THEY WORK WITH SEX ON THEIR OWN TERMS"
interview with Pepper of The Lusty Lady, Tidens Kvinder 1-05

2004 "THREE TALES"
for Magasin Schäfer # 17, "The Grand Literary Issue"

2004"SEX AND SHAMANISM"
on Fakir Musafar, Tidens Kvinder 3-04

2003 "SEXUAL IGNORANCE"
Essay on sexual politics in Politiken

1993 "THE NECESSITY OF TRANSFORMATION"
interview with Shinya Tsukamoto, Kosmorama

1987 "THE HORROR FILM IS OUR ULTIMATE PROTEST FILM"
on splatter films, Kosmorama
s
1985 - Writer for various magazinez and fanzines, including OBSKURIØST, INFERNO and BLOODY DARLINGS. Primarily on horror and cult movies.



INTERVIEWS (WITH ME)
Magazines, books, newspapers, including:

2007FETICH GENERATION!!!
Paper from Institute of Pschology, University of Copenhagen

2006 WEEKENDAVISEN # 20-06
"Frit fald ud i ekstasen" - on fetish culture and sexual magic
Also in the book "Storbyens Stammer"

2004 MIFUNE # 03 (film magazine)
"Sex for egen regning" - about the Art Core DVD'en

2004 TIDENS KVINDER # 01-04 (erotic magazine)
"Han udforsker de seksuelle miljøer"

2003 DANMARK UNDER DYNEN (book)
"Fetichfester som moderne tempelorgier"

2003 UNIVERSTETSAVISEN # 17-03 (newspaper)
"Saglig sex søges" - on sexual politics

2001 TUGT OG UTUGT (documentary film)
- on modern sexual culture

1998 TV-STOP (Local TV station)
"Transgressive Cinema" - on Richard Kern

1998 CONTRACULTURA EL WEBZINE
"Entrevista con Steen Schapiro"

1996 TV2-NYHEDERNE (TV news)
- on Piercing

1995 FILM THREAT # 13 (American film magazine)
- on The Art Core Trilogy

1995 3 TIL TIDEN (talkshow)
- on modern sexual culture

1995 ELEVA2REN (talkshow)
- on fetish

1994 POLITIKEN (newspaper)
"Fri os for skammen" - on The Art Core Trilogy

1993 SYNNØVES (talkshow)
- on Piercing

1992 TV2-NYHEDERNE (TV news)
- on splatter films



ANDET
Events, film jury, etc ...:

2006 COSMIC ZOOM (Danish film festival)
- jury

2003 KINKY COPENHAGEN
- co-arranger and moderator on sexual political debates

1995 & 1999 THE DANISH FILM INSTITUTE WORKSHOP
- selection of projects to get film support

1984 - ? UDLANDSREJSER
- extensive travles in a.o. Brazil, Mexico, Spani, Holland, USA ...



Contact Steen Schapiro by e-mail

Poster for the Danish feature film "Gemini", which I edited in 2003.

In 2001, I co-edited the experimental film "Close"

Udo Kier in the feature film "Besat/Possessed" (1999)

Video-cover for "Besat/Possessed" (1999)

French poster for "Besat/Possessed" (1999)