CURRENT MISSION

Pursue the American Dream

ABOUT ME

My name is Carsten Kurpanek. I was born in Wrzburg, Germany and I live now in Mainz (near Frankfurt) were I study film studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University. I spend the last year in the USA on a year abroad in Muncie, IN, where I studied Telecommunication at Ball State University. I am planning to graduate in July 2007 in Germany. After that I will move to Los Angeles with the love of my life and try to become a professional film editor.

Please check out my reels here on www.carstenkurpanek.com or visit me on www.myspace.com/kurpanek

PHILOSOPHY

Listen to your heart. Follow your passion. Live your dreams. Love your life. It's the only one you have.

Interests

Movies, Music, Literature, Internet, Cooking (Thai, Mexican), Filming & Editing, Travelling, Road Trips, Concerts

• literature
• concerts
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• history
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

The Mountain Goats, The Weakerthans, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Savoy Grand, 65daysofstatic, Sufjan Stevens, Strike Anywhere, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Araki, Ida, Stars, Iron & Wine, Bloc Party, Aereogramme, Kristofer Aström, Modest Mouse

Magnolia (1999), Fight Club (1999), Last Night (1998), Festen (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Lucia y el Sexo (2001), Donnie Darko (2001), Casablanca (1942), City Lights (1931), 2001 – A Space Odyssee (1968), The Godfather (1972), Once Upon a time in America (1984), Garden State (2004), Before Sunset (1994), City of God (2002), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), The Crowd (1928), Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004), The Insider (1999), American Beauty (1999), King Kong (1933), Amélie (1999), Memento (2000), North by Northwest (1959), Peeping Tom (1960), Pulp Fiction (1994), Being There (1979), The Blue Angel (1930), Bonnie & Clyde (1967), The Graduate (1967), Boogie Nights (1997)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude; Nick Hornby – High Fidelity; Alessandro Baricco – Silk, Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy, Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex, Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections, Joseph Heller - Catch 22, Thornton Wilder - Our Town, Günther Grass - The Tindrum, Javier Marias - My Heart So White, George Orwell - 1984

Teach, Learn, Share

film history, film theory, film editing