Nina Fleck - Photographs - Short Biography & Photograph Title List

The Historic Weir Greenhouse in
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York. Photo:
Nina Fleck ©2014

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Nina Fleck – Biography

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from the Producer / Art
Director section of

Octavia:
Elegy for a Vampire (or Endless Shards
of Jazz for a Brutal World) :

Nina
Fleck is a New York-based actor, director,
stylist/designer, and producer. She grew up
in Bavaria, studied fashion in Stuttgart,
and went to NYC in her twenties to become
part of the alternative and off-Broadway art
scene which still managed to thrive in the
1990’s. She married New York
writer/underground filmmaker Dennis Leroy
Kangalee in 2005. Fleck is the co-founder of
New Poet Cinema, an independent film
production group that seeks to create and
support poetic films that are at once both
personal and political while seeking to
transcend the definitions and limits of
traditional narrative filmmaking and the
images of people of color and women.

She feels
the “independent film” has just become a
marketing ploy and that very few people
involved in filmmaking care about the
art or have anything to say. She
made her debut as a director in 2011
with “Gentrified Minds” – staging DLK’s
poems and songs about gentrification –
for the Downtown Urban Theater
Festival. Since then she has been
involved with various avant-garde
projects, Shakespeare plays, and
multi-media — with an emphasis on
photographic images and its relation to
text. Her sense of style and
design has influenced the conception of
Octavia as a film; Nina shall be
bringing her classical sense and innate
understanding of expressionism and
nostalgia to the project. She is
eager to collaborate with the
contributing artists and the
cinematographer as she navigates how to
best help translate the director’s
vision.

To view
a slide show of the photographs click here: Slide
Show

To return to our main page on Nina Fleck click
here: Nina
Fleck – ‘Street Haunting’

FlashPøint
Magazine: a Journal of the Arts & Politics –
Issue #17 / www.flashpointmag.com