Niklaus Schilling was born in Basel in 1944 and his first attempts at film come from 1961. He has a self-taught approach to professional film and made TV reportages for ABC and ITN. He has lived and worked in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1965 and been a cameraman on over 20 shorts and 6 long features. He directed his first full-length feature film – "Nachtschatten" - in 1971 and has worked since then on other features (draft, screenplay, direction, editing, also occasionally cameraman).

From 1981, he started ongoing experiments with video and computer technology ("electronic cinema"). In 1978, he received the German Film Prize for Rheingold (1977), the 1980 Max-Ophuels-Preis for "Der Willi-Busch-Report" (1979), etc. His films include: "Die Vertreibung aus dem Paradies" (1976), "Der Westen leuchtet!" (1981/82), "Die Frau ohne Koerper und der Projektionist" (1983), "Dormire" (1984/85), "The Spirit", ("Der Atem", 1987/89), "Deutschfieber" (1991/92), and "The Blind Cow" ("Die blinde Kuh", 1994/95).

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH