Ylber Mehmedaliu

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.

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

6. ZGJEDHJET E HAPURA (2007) (TV) (documentary) (director) ©DOCUMENTA

Exhibitions

1. PERSPECTIVA 97 (1997) (mixed art)

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