Lydia Zimmermann
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Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni 12 December 1966 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
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| Nationality | Spanish |
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| Years active | 1989– |
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| Known for | Filmmaking |
| Notable work | Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002) |
| Style | Art film |
| Movement | Late modernism |
| Spouse(s) | Isaac Pierre Racine |
| Children | (born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on 22 July 1986) (son) |
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| Website | Lydia Zimmermann's Official Website |
Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 12 December 1966 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish Catalan actress, film director and editor, businesswoman, author, activist, cinematographer, and academic.
Lydia Zimmermann is the daughter of two Swiss people, , a graphic designer, and Bignia Silvia Zimmermann-Kuoni, an anthropologist and textile designer. Her parents met in the United States and moved to Spain. She has also lived in Australia, Canada, Haiti, Switzerland, and the United States. As of 2012, Zimmermann was working on a script of a film that was scheduled to begin shooting in Canada in 2012. Her partner is Isaac Pierre Racine, also a filmmaker, on whose 1998 film Remedios de Cuba: Scuba Drive she served as editor and on whose 2014 short film Troya she served as executive producer and director's advisor. Her son, , is a filmmaker as well, and she acted in and produced his 2007 short film Forse Domani. In addition, she teaches at the European Film Actor School, at the Pompeu Fabra University Communication Department as an Associate Professor offering screenwriting courses, as well as at the Ciné Institute in Jacmel, Haiti. She is one of the founders of the Zürich-based film production company Artisan Films GmbH and sits on the board of the Ramuni Paniker Trust, a Barcelona-based group which aims to provide financial support to talented yet underresourced young people in Kerala, India.
Best known for her directorial debut Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002), codirected with Agustí Villaronga and Isaac Pierre Racine, in which she also had an uncredited cameo and for which she appeared on , directed by Félix Piñuela and broadcast by Televisión Española, on 1 April 2005 and on Sala 33, directed by and broadcast by TV3, on 18 December 2010, Zimmermann has also, among other activities, played the role of a caregiver in Agustí Villaronga's film Moon Child (1989), her acting debut, as well as the roles of a mourner in Antoni Aloy's 1999 film adaptation of the 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw titled Presence of Mind, a mother in Gemma Ventura's 2009 short film about Carl Jung The Jung Files and once again in the 2010 film , directed by and , in which she appeares among the acknowledged, and of in Agustí Villaronga's 2013 television series broadcast by La 1. She appeared on 27 November 2014 on the television program Àrtic broadcast by . She codirected with Agustí Villaronga a television documentary titled Fe about and broadcast by RTVE as part of the series 50 años de on 10 December 2009. Her video art, dealing with topics ranging from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1966 film Andrei Rublev, Blanca Portillo's incarnation of Mary during a stage adaptation of Colm Tóibín 2012 novel The Testament of Mary directed by Agustí Villaronga, the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, and fashion designer Jesús del Pozo to Théodore Géricault's 1818–1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa as well as his other work, a 2012 homage to Maria Mercè Marçal titled and the personas of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Robert Capa, supported by the and by Banco Sabadell, has appeared at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica and at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. Two television films directed by her, La dona de gel (2003) and Perfecta pell (2005), were broadcast by RAI and TV3, and she has also written a screenplay based on Paul Auster's 1995 short story collection The Red Notebook titled Correspondencia.
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