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Tito Lee (aka. Antej Farac, *1972 in former Yugoslavia) is a director, author, musician, DJ and interdisciplinary artist. His film ANNELIE, which was derived from a multi-media film synthesis of arts, has been shown and honored with prizes at festivals worldwide.

Biography

Tito Lee was born 1972 in former Yugoslavia, as a son of a painter and philospher and descendant of a family of Coptic lighthouse builders. As a child, he assembled functioning radios into useless sculptures, at age 11, he programmed his first video game and as a 14-year-old radio DJ, served up emerging electronic music to the region. He studied at the Film Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo until 1992 and graduated 2008 as director and engineer at the Munich School of Film and Television. Tito Lee is a German citizen and lives and works in Switzerland.

Career

As a musician and DJ he worked on different projects with a special interest in experimental electronic music. Tito Lee worked in the film and advertising industry, where he acted as a consulting dramatist, scriptwriter as well as a director and editor. In 1998, as a 26-year-old student, his unconventional, video clip created for the electronic retail chain “Saturn”, entered the official competition for Cannes Golden Lion. After working on over 200 trailers for film and TV productions, he absorbed the language of popular culture and in his debut "Death of Techno" transformed this into a post-neorealistic vision of the turn of the century.

In 2009 Tito Lee started working on HOTEL ANNELIE, an artistic archive that includes a 111 minute film, associated sculptures, video installations, large format light boxes, photographs and pop art series, and eliminates the borders between documentation and fiction. In 2012 the film ANNELIE was released separately, and shown and honored all over the world at renowned film festivals, such as Locarno, Busan and Hof. The complete exhibition was shown in its totality for the first time in 2015.

Style

Tito Lee works explore the limits between technology, Zeitgeist, reality and fiction. He uses numerous forms of expression with a challenging combination of documentation and imagination and creates a changed perception of reality.

Filmography

• 2012 Annelie (feature film, 111 min., director)
• 2006–2008 Death of Techno (feature film, 117 min., director)
• 2008 Mixuga (documentary film, 85 min., producer)
• 2004 Biel-Bienne (documentary film, director, BR)
• 2003 Beamte in Sattel (documentary film, 45min., director, BR)
• 2002 Sipan - ein vergessenes Juwel (documentary film, director, BR)
• 2002 Elektro (semi-documentary film, 45 min., director, HFF Diplomfilm)
• 1998 Blitz (short film, 6 min., 35 mm, director - DOP: Michael Ballhaus)
• 1998 Westend (short film, 12 min., 35 mm, director)
• 1997 Piranhas (short film, 6 min., 35 mm, director)
• 1996 Captain Cosmo (short film, super 16 mm, co-director)
• 1994 Rückkopplung (short film, 35 mm, director)

Creative Director / Art Director (TV, Advertising, Music-clips and Promotion)

• DF1: Imagespots / concept & realisation
• CINE ACTION: „Sie lieben - wir auch“ / Sender-Kampagne (5 Clips) / concept & realisation
• Media Markt: „Hochhaus“ / concept & director
• Saturn: „Zukunft passiert“ / concept & director - Cannes 1998 Official competetion
• MTV: „Zeit“ / Sender-Jingle / director
• BLUE CHANNEL & Beate-Uhse.TV: erotic channel campaigns / concept & realisation
• Kirch Media: various imageclips - u. a. opening film of Cannes TV Messe 1999
• PREMIERE: various imagespots

Weblinks

• Official website Tito Lee
• Official company presentation
• Antej Farac in the Internet Movie Database
• 10 vor 10: Annelie. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
• Wolfgang Höbel: Bilanz der Hofer Filmtage. In: Spiegel Online
• Heike Littger: Die geschönte Welt der Pension "Annelie". In: Die Zeit
• Hans Jürg Zinsli: Randständige sind die Filmstars in "Annelie". In: Berner Zeitung
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "Annelie"