Ylber Mehmedaliu

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Ylber Mehmedaliu is a film director and cameraman from Pristina, Kosovo. Ylber graduated from the Art Academy of the University of Pristina and also studied art history the University of Oslo, Norway. His film-making credits include director, camera and story for the 30-minute fiction film “GRACE”, shot in Amsterdam, Budapest and Paris. He has directed music videos and was a cameraman for a documentary about Julian Schnabel (New York). He has travelled across Europe and in America, China, Mongolia, and Russia collecting film material. As an artist, he participated in a 1997 exhibition of new talent, “Perspectiva 97” and his “Be safe stop Corruption” video art featured in the provocative “Sexhibition” show held in Pristina in 2006. CO-founder of ACCESS INFO Madrid, and DOCUMENTA Prishtina.

[edit] Filmography

1. GRACE (short feature) (2003) (director, producer, cinematography)

2. SHUFFLE politics, bullshit and rock'n'roll (2004) (documentary) (director, producer, cinematography) (special jury prize, audience prize, Dokufest-Kosovo) (Golden horseshoe, Asterfest-Macedonia)

3. KOSOVOCIDE (2006) (documentary) (cinematography, direction)

4. MISSING SYMBOLS (2006) (TV) (documentary) (director, cinematography) (Best documentary and best camera work prize, from Journalist Association of Kosovo) (2007) ©DOCUMENTA

5. VALSI VJENEZ (2007) (TV) (documentary) (director, cinematography) ©DOCUMENTA

Exhibitions

1. PERSPECTIVA 97 (1997) (mixed art)

2. SEXHIBITION (2006) (BE SAFE STOP CORRUPTION) (video)