Werner Penzel was born in Germany in 1950. In the 60s he played in various rock-bands and wrote poetry first published in R.D. Brinkmann's underground-magazine "Der Froehliche Tarzan", before turning to independent movie-making.
In the 70s he worked and lived with the Brazilian theatre company "Oficina" in Rio De Janeiro, accompanied the "Living Theatre" in Europe, studied at Munich Film Academy, travelled through South and Central America, North Africa, India, the USA and Japan and spent time practicing in the Zen-monasteries Eiheiji and Antaiji.

Since 1995 he's been giving lectures, workshops and seminars at film-, media and art academies. In 2006 he established "jourparjour company" in Estavayer-Le-Lac, Switzerland, together with Ayako Mogi, Res Balzli, Marion Neumann and Christoph Balmer to start "Laboratoire Village Nomade". In 2009 he moved to the island of Awaji-shima in Japan.

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