Ramon Bloomberg

Ramon Bloomberg (born 1972) is a British filmmaker and writer. He was born in Sheffield, England, and is based in London. He has worked in documentary and short film, music videos and advertising. His documentary Area K: A Political Fishing Documentary, co-directed with Nadav Harel, won Best Documentary at the 2002 Brooklyn Film Festival and received a Certificate of Merit at the 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival. His 2014 short film T's World: The Over-identification of Terry Thompson received an honourable mention at DOK Leipzig.

Career

In the early 2000s, Bloomberg co-directed Area K: A Political Fishing Documentary with filmmaker Nadav Harel. The documentary follows a business partnership between Palestinian fishermen from the Gaza Strip and Israeli counterparts living in Dugit. The film was also included in the World Cinema programme at the 2002 Film Fest Gent. At the Brooklyn Film Festival it received the award for Best Documentary, while the San Francisco International Film Festival gave it a Certificate of Merit in the current-events category.

Bloomberg subsequently worked in music videos and advertising. A 2006 press release from Accor, issued for a Novotel advertising campaign he directed, credited his earlier music-video work for acts including Metric, My Robot Friend and Maxïmo Park. In 2007 Bloomberg was among the filmmakers included in Saatchi & Saatchi's New Directors Showcase. His short film Horse Territory later appeared in the 2008 AFI Fest programme.

His later short films include Green Spirit, Chinese Shadows, Trans Vector, Glacis and T's World: The Over-identification of Terry Thompson. T's World concerns the events surrounding the 2011 release of exotic animals from a private property near Zanesville, Ohio. A DOK Leipzig programme description notes that the film combines live-action material, police-car video, satellite imagery and computer-animated re-enactments. It received an honourable mention at DOK Leipzig in 2014.

Bloomberg has also written on media and technology. In 2015 the journal Culture Machine published his essay "Dancing to a Tune: The Drone as Political and Historical Assemblage", which examines the term "drone" in technological, political and cultural contexts.

Selected filmography

Year Title Notes
2001 Area K: A Political Fishing Documentary Co-directed with Nadav Harel
2006 Horse Territory Short film
2008 Green Spirit Short film
2010 Chinese Shadows Short film
2011 Trans Vector Short film
2013 Glacis Short film
2014 T's World: The Over-identification of Terry Thompson Short documentary

Music videos

Year Artist Song Notes
2003 Metric "Calculation Theme" Director
2005 Supersystem "Born into the World" Co-directed with Elliot Jokelson
2005 Luke Temple "Private Shipwreck" Director
2006 Maxïmo Park "I Want You to Stay" Director

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Doc Alliance, "Ramon Bloomberg", DAFilms director catalogue.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Brooklyn Film Festival, "AREA K – A Political Fishing Documentary", festival year 2002.
  3. 1 2 Film Threat, "Golden Gate Awards at SFIFF", 4 April 2002.
  4. 1 2 film-documentaire.fr, "T's World: The Overidentification of Terry Thompson", selections and distinctions.
  5. ↑ Film Fest Gent, "Area K (Area K – A Political Fishing Documentary)", 2002 edition.
  6. 1 2 3 Accor, press release concerning the 2006 Novotel advertising campaign, 27 November 2006.
  7. ↑ Fast Company, "25 Years, 25 Directors: Saatchi Marks A Quarter Century Of Its New Directors Showcase", 2015.
  8. ↑ Film Threat, "2008 AFI FEST Announces Full Schedule", 2008.
  9. 1 2 Doc Alliance, "T's World: The Over-identification of Terry Thompson", DAFilms.
  10. ↑ Ramon Bloomberg, "Dancing to a Tune: The Drone as Political and Historical Assemblage", Culture Machine, vol. 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ HIP Video Promo, "Supersystem – Born Into The World", 2005.
  12. ↑ HIP Video Promo, "Luke Temple – Private Shipwreck", 2005.