Gabriel Böhmer makes films. They are handcrafted. From torn paper, and threadbare cloth, and rusty things Gabriel found in a garden. They are about thoughts that arrive uninvited; like moths in a coat. He likes moths. Filtered through dry, melancholic, humour. They frame life through the absurd. His films have qualified for the Academy Awards and the European Film Awards. He is from Zurich. He lives in the UK.
Films
Progress Mining - Premiere: Locarno Film Festival - 2024
Push This Button If You Begin To Panic - Premiere: Locarno Film Festival - 2020
The Flood Is Coming - Premiere: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - 2018
Beetle Trouble - Premiere: IFF Message to Man - 2017 - Included in Clermont-Ferrand's collection of 20 best films to have played in the Lab Competition.
Select Awards
Special Mention (Locarno ’24)
Award for Artistic Merit (Animator ’21)
EFA Candidacy (Riga ’20)
Best Swiss (Fantoche ’19)
Best Swiss Film (Winterthur ’18)
Special Mention (Clermont-Ferrand ’18)
Sometimes the things Gabriel makes talk to each other, and make films. Sometimes the things prefer to stay their own things. And that's fine too.
Books
Three Moths Flew Out Of A Coat, Artwork Book - 2024
Tomorrow I'll Go Outside, Artwork Book - 2015
Beetle Days, Novel - 2013
Exhibitions / Collections
Three Moths Flew Out Of A Coat - 2024
In A Room - 2016
Tomorrow I’ll Go Outside - 2015
Music
Elm's Field, Owl & Cedar - 2023
Fort Growing, Ber - 2015
