Johannes Hochgatterer

Johannes Hochgatterer was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. At the age of three, his parents took him to the opera for the first time to see Mozart's "The Magic Flute." This experience marked the starting point of his passion for the arts. At fifteen, after watching Jim Jarmusch's film "Coffee and Cigarettes" at a Viennese movie theater, the Stadtkino Wien, he decided to become a filmmaker himself. In 2007, for his graduation from secondary school, he wrote a paper on the stylistic characteristics of Jarmusch's works. From 2008-2013, he took courses in Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, where he produced scientific works on the topic of children in films, Robert Bresson's "Cinématographe," and on Italian theater of the 20th century, among other things. In those years, he also worked on educational films for teachers in training as a cinematographer and editor at the Pedagogical University of Vienna. In 2013, he moved to Los Angeles to study filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. There he received two degrees (Associate of Fine Arts in 2015, Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2018). He wrote and directed several short films both as a student (thesis film "Camilla") and as an independent filmmaker in between his studies ("Closing Night") and after ("As If It Were Day," among others). In 2019, he moved back to Vienna, where he continues to write and direct both short and feature films, as well as documentaries. In 2022, he founded the production company Nutcut Pictures.