Frederick Baker

He was a Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University, specialising in Digital Humanities, Heritage, and Prehistoric Rock Art. He was a co-founder of the EU-funded 3D Pitoti digital heritage project and co-director of the Cambridge University Prehistoric Picture Project. He divided his time between London, Berlin and Vienna, producing and directing films, as well as writing articles and books. In the book The Art of Projectionism (2007) he defined a projectionist school of filmmaking and media art. In this publication he also presented "ambient film", a surround experience that can be shown in specially developed "ambient cinemas". His first narrative ambient short, Ruhetag, was premiered in Vienna in 2007. A Viennese Odyssey, the first ambient feature film, was premiered at the Biennale in Seville in 2008. His interview partners included Yoko Ono, George H. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Václav Havel, Shimon Peres, Helmut Kohl, John Major, Michel Rocard, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Amalia Rodrigues, Cardinal Franz König, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Ernst Gombrich, Simon Wiesenthal, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Joseph Stalin’s grandson and Vivienne Westwood. Baker taught film at the Donau University, Krems and St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria. He lectured on film, media and journalism at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, the Universität der Künste in Berlin and Middlesex University in London. He also taught film as part of the Screen Media and Culture Group at Cambridge University. His specialties included cinema of Austria, new media art and television documentary. For the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna he created 'Klimt's Magic Garden: A Virtual Reality Experience by Frederick Baker' (2018). Baker died on 25 August 2020, at the age of 55.

• Name — Frederick Baker • Born — 26 January 1965 • Birthplace — Salzburg, Austria • Citizenship — British, Austrian • Died — 24 August 2020 • Place of death — Vienna, Austria • Birth Name — Frederick Douglas Stephan Baker • Spouse — Sandra Fasolt Baker

• Goodbye to Berlin's Big Brother (BBC Late Show) (1994) • Correspondent - 12 reports from Central Europe (BBC Current Affairs) (1995-2000) • Killing Time - the 48 hour week (BBC Assignment) (1995) • Right to Reply - Bloody Bosnia (Channel 4) (1995) • Stories My Country Told Me: The Meaning of Nationhood - Eric Hobsbawn and Slovakian Nationalism (for BBC Arena) (1996) • Austrian-Jewish Cultural Festival (ORF Culture) (1996) • Shopping for King Arthur (ORF Culture) (1996) • Women Priests in England (ORF) (1996) • The First Silent Night (BBC Music) (1997) • Die erste Stille Nacht (Media Europa/ORF) (1997) • Re-cycling Churches in England (ORF Religion) (1997) • Fado: Religion und Music in Portugal (ORF Religion) (1997) • The German Giant - Helmut Kohl (BBC Correspondent Special) (1998) • Viennese Jews on the Thames (Austrian Cultural Institute, London) (1998) • Big Brother - The Stasi - East Germany's Secret Police (BBC Correspondent Special) (1999) • Magic Lantern: Václav Havel & Revolution (BBC Correspondent Special) (1999) • Stille Nacht - Ein Lied geht um die Welt (Media Europa/ORF) (1999) • Stalin- der Rote Gott (ORF/ Rainer Moritz Arts) (1999) • Rebuilding the Reichstag (BBC Omnibus) (1999) • The Haider Show (BBC Correspondent) (2000) • Stalin: Red God (BBC Arena) (2000) • The Kabbala Oratorio (ORF - Bayern Alpha) (2002) • Deutschland Deutschland: Sigmund Nissels musikalische Reise (ORF/3SAT) (2002) • Imagine IMAGINE (BBC Arena/ORF) (2003) • Creme Bavaroise: obazt is Gerhard Polt & die Biermöslblosn (Media Europa) (2003) • Shadowing the Third Man (with Silverapples Media for BBC/ORF) (2004) • Anziehendes Österreich - Modische Inszenierungen von Kopf bis Fuss (With Sandra Fasolt) (2005) • Testing Mozart (BBC/ ORF/ Arte/ Euroarts) (2006) • Romy Schneider- Eine Frau in drei Noten (ORF/ARTE) (2008) • Kultur des Widerstands (ORF/ Filmbäckerei) (2010) • Widerstand in Haiderland (Filmbäckerei/Polyfilm) (2010) • Und Äktschn (2014) • Und Äktschn: Making of (TV movie documentary) (2014) • Prometheus Pitoti (short film) (2016) • Cinema Austria: Die ersten 112 Jahre (TV movie documentary) (2020)

Frederick Baker is recorded with the occupation archaeologist. Recorded as archaeologist, screenwriter, film producer, director and writer. Established in Library of Congress under no2008007685.