Background

Ingo Petzke (b. Belm [Germany] 1947) joined Bond University in March 2001. His previous position was as full Professor for Film & Video at Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) Wuerzburg in Germany since 1983.

A filmmaker in his own right, Ingo had his short films screened at numerous international festivals. Newer work includes several CD-ROMs. He has worked free-lance as a programmer for major festivals including the famous Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, the Trondheim Film Festival (Norway), and the Wuerzburg International Film Weekend (Germany). He is the co- founder of the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrueck (Germany).

For the Goethe Institut (German Culture Institute) he lectured and conducted workshops in 28 countries world-wide - as far apart as Japan, Philippines, USA and Chile. For several years he was a member of the Goethe Institut's film commission.

Publications

He has published widely, most notably The Experimental Film Handbook (Frankfurt 1989) and more recently Companies on the Internet: Designing Web Sites (Munich 1998) and The Big Premiere Software Companion (Duesseldorf 2001). His articles have been published in numerous German papers and magazines but also internationally in Oko (Zagreb), Kinoteka (Zagreb), Falter (Vienna) and Agenda (Melbourne)

Ingo has recently finished the first-ever authorised biography on Hollywood-based Australian director Phillip Noyce, to be published by Pan Macmillan in 2004.

His main areas of research are the history of the international avantgarde film and more recently the new interactive media.

Ingo likes Minimal Music, collects books on Arctic Exploration and dreams of producing the definite film about Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the first human being at the North Pole.