- Johannes Hochgatterer was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. At the age of three, his parents took him to the opera for the first time to see Mozart's "The Magic Flute." This experience marked the starting point of his passion for the arts. At fifteen, after watching Jim Jarmusch's film Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) at a Viennese movie theater, the Stadtkino Wien, he decided to become a filmmaker himself. In 2007, for his graduation from secondary school, he wrote a paper on the stylistic characteristics of Jarmusch's works.
From 2008-2013, he took courses in Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, where he produced scientific works on the topic of children in films, Robert Bresson's "Cinématographe," and on Italian theater of the 20th century, among other things. In those years, he also worked on educational films for teachers in training as a cinematographer and editor at the Pedagogical University of Vienna.
In 2013, he moved to Los Angeles to study filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. There he received two degrees (Associate of Fine Arts in 2015, Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2018). He wrote and directed several short films both as a student - thesis film Camilla (2015) - and as an independent filmmaker in between his studies - Closing Night (2016) - and after - As If It Were Day (2021), among others.
In 2019, he moved back to Vienna, where he continues to write and direct both short and feature films, as well as documentaries.
In 2022, he founded the production company Nutcut Pictures.
- IMDb mini biography by: Johannes Hochgatterer
- He is a trained paramedic.
- He graduated with honors from the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking program at the New York Film Academy.
- He considers Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute (1975) to be the first film he ever saw. His parents assured him it was one of the first films he had seen, but they are unsure if it was the very first.
- One of his early films, prior to becoming a film student, was a short documentary entitled "Klaus and the Clouds." An excerpt of it was shown as part of a feature-length BBC documentary about the Cloud Appreciation Society.
- He used to be the editor-in-chief of his school's official magazine. He frequently wrote film reviews.
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