Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Biography
Artist and filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman grew up on a large council estate in Munich and left school at 16. After moving to London in 1991, they studied at Central St. Martins. They won the Artangel Open Award for their collaborative feature drama Cycle (2018) with Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens).
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Three attempts at reconnecting with often traumatic pasts, all leading to flights from home and the need for personal reinvention. A documentary triptych of many layers and emotions, whose parts connect with each other in unexpected ways.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Self
Art Class (2020, 49 mins) is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title. It uses the tropes of scholarly presentation and personal confession alongside extracts from the artist’s work, guest interventions, martial arts and meditation exercises and evidentiary found material. The film tests the limits of access that working-class artists have to cultural production and to the relevant institutions circulating these outcomes. Alternately playful and provocative, serious and satirical, Art Class favors wit over weaponizing and reflection over rhetoric but does not pull its punches when it comes to the real obstructions to working class creative progress, or to the strategies necessary to overcome such outmoded hindrances.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Themself
Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.