Biographical Detritus

Car-uhl Oil grapples with the interior of a translucent clock face inside the Buffalo Train Terminal.

SOME OF CARL'S OTHER INTERESTS

For the past 5 years I’ve been collaborating personally and professionally with Atalee Judy, artistic director of Breakbone DanceCo. Together we’ve made numerous, visceral dance films and intense performance documents. I’m an aficionado of the musical stylings the post-punk era (Throbbing Gristle, PIL, Devo, Crass, Einsturzende Neubauten). I love brooding fiction (James Ellroy, Dostoyevsky) and brutal examinations of human dilemmas in non-fiction (Thomas Szasz, Susan Griffin, Camille Paglia). Within the Enneagram paradigm of personality types I’m a Type 5 with a 4 Wing - which basically means I default to analyzing the world from a distance and would rather find aesthetic solutions than practical ones. This puts me in the fine company of Stanley Kubrick, Trent Reznor, David Lynch, Emily Dickenson and the fictional, yet archetypal, Edward Scissorhands.

SOME OF CARL’S FAVORITE FILMS

Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
La Belle et La Bete (1945)
Scarlet Street (1946)
Rope (1948)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
La Jetee (1962)
The Thing (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
Angel Heart (1987)
Spoorloos (1988)
Crumb (1994)
Seul Contre Tous (1998)

ALTERNATE SPELLINGS

Alternate, yet incorrect, spellings which have been used in various programs, film credits and web pages.

• Carl Weidemann (favored by Movieside)
• Carl Weideman, Carl Weidermann, and Carl Wiedermann (selected by various film festivals)
• Carl Weiderman (favored by Chicago Underground film fest).
• Also possible: Carl Wiederman, Carl Wiedeman

It sounds like 'Wee-da-min', but looks like 'Wide-man'. The whimsy of the Germans.

Carl Wiedemann self portrait