A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Steff Gruber was born in 1953 in Zurich, Switzerland. From 1972 to 1979 he attended film lectures and courses at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and F+F Zurich College of Design. In 1976 he studied mass media philosophy at the University of Georgia (USA) where he became the assistant of the Professor and film-maker James Herbert. Since 1978 Gruber works as an independent filmmaker. He has taught at various schools and colleges, including a post as a lecturer in film and electronic media at the Konstanz University of Applied Sciences (1994-1997). Among his activities today, he is the director of the production company KINO.NET AG.
Cinematography:
1982 Do it Yourself
Director:
1975 Fetish & Dreams
1982 Do it Yourself
1987 Location Africa
2011 Passion Despair
Editor:
1975 Fetish & Dreams
1982 Do it Yourself
1987 Location Africa
2011 Passion Despair
Producer:
1975 Fetish & Dreams
1982 Do it Yourself
1987 Location Africa
2011 Passion Despair
Production Assistant:
1975 Fetish & Dreams
1982 Do it Yourself
1986 Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
1987 Location Africa
2011 Passion Despair
Screenplay:
1975 Fetish & Dreams
1982 Do it Yourself
1986 Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
1987 Location Africa
2011 Passion Despair
Sound:
1975 Fetish & Dreams
1982 Do it Yourself
1986 Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles
1987 Location Africa
2011 Passion Despair
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.