Werner Schmiedel is an award-winning video artist, documentary filmmaker and photographer. He studied Photography (Professor Erich vom Endt) at the University Folkwangschule in Essen, Germany.

As a filmmaker, he co-photographed and edited Hannah Heer's documentary film, "Kol Ishah - The Rabbi is a Woman", which opens a window into the world of four diverse women rabbis. His previous film work includes the groundbreaking feature length documentary films, "The Art of Remembrance-Simon Wiesenthal" and "The Other Eye"; both films were produced by Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel. "The Art of Remembrance" has an original score by John Zorn and was short-listed for an Oscar in 1996.

Werner Schmiedel's films and videos have been invited to prestigious international festivals, such as the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Worldwide Video Festival in The Hague, the San Francisco Video Festival, the Bombay Film Festival, the Sao Paulo Film Festival, and many others. His work is also shown at Colleges, Libraries, Community Centers, Synagogues and Museums, and is represented in public and private collections in the USA and in Europe.

Werner Schmiedel's work has been reviewed in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, the Hollywood Reporter, the New York Times, Variety, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Boston Globe, and many others both in the USA and in Europe.

1986 Red Ribbon Award for Best Video at the Video Festival in Columbus, Ohio for ELE-VA-TOR

2012 GOLD - Variation (in collaboration with Hannah Heer)

2011 A SOLO WALK THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE

2011 INTER:VIEW

2010 TRANCE:DANCE

2009 TRANCE:FOREST

2007 THE BEACH

2005 TRANCE:MOTION

2002 TRANCE:FICTION

1994 A SOLO WALK TROUGH... (II)

1989 MOMENTO

1988 ON MEMORY (in collaboration with Hannah Heer)

1985 STOP AND GO

1984 ELE-VA-TOR

1983-85 GOLD (in collaboration with Hannah Heer) video and installation

1983 LIFE NOT AS FILM BEFORE THE EYES 16mm

1982 TOWARDS THE EARTH/ TOWARDS THE SKY

1982 HAMBURG-NEW YORK 2-ch-installation

1980 UNTERWEGS IN DEUTSCHLAND

1980 PHOTOBOOTH

1979 A SOLO WALK...(I)

1979 INSIDE/OUTSIDE

2010 KOL ISHAH - The Rabbi is a Woman (DVCam, 38min, Director/Producer: Hannah Heer)
Editor, Sound, Co-Cinematographer, Co-Producer

1995 THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE: SIMON WIESENTHAL (16mm, 95 min, Director/Producer: Hannah Heer)
Co-Director, Producer, Editor, Sound

1991 THE OTHER EYE (16mm, 125 min, Director/Producer: Hannah Heer)
Co-Director, Producer, Editor, Sound

1983 BESETZUNGSPROBE (Video, 60 min)
Director, Cinematographer Producer, Editor

1981 SIEBEN GÄRTNER IN DER WÜSTE (Video, 60 min)
Director, Cinematographer, Producer, Editor

The New York Public Library, The Donnell Library

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library

Filmmuseum Munich, Stadtmuseum

NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Video-Forum

Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland

JUDEN UND FILM “Die Kunst des Erinnerns”, 2005, Eleonore Lappin, Mandelbaum Verlag, Wien

INDELIBLE SHADOWS (3rd Edition), Annette Insdorf, Cambridge University Press, 2003

KUNST IN DUSSELDORF, 1988, Helge Meister

VIDEOKUNST IN NRW, 1988, 235 Media, Eckhard Wirths

VIDEO KRIJGT DE RUIMTE IN HAAGS MUSEUM, De Volkskrant, Pauline Terreehorst, Sept 14, 1985

VIDEO IN DUSSELDORF, 1984, Georg F. Schwarzbauer, Ursula Wevers