Robert Stokvis
I was born in Vienna to a Dutch father and a German-Polish mother. I spent my early childhood in Italy and pursued academic studies in Vienna (Doctorate, University of Economics), Rotterdam (Diploma in European Studies, Erasmus University) and Cambridge (MBA, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
In the 1990s I worked as a business consultant in Berlin and was part of the effort to privatize the former East German economy. From there I joined the Board of Directors of a mining company and later became an industrial entrepreneur producing insulating refractory bricks in Saxony (Germany).
I sold the company and moved to London in 2001 where I studied drama at East 15 Acting School.
Robert Cambrinus
I graduated from East 15 Acting School, Essex University, in Acting for the Media. My first job was an role in a BBC production. Soon afterwards I started to develop my own film projects, in which I explore aspects of subjective cinema, the destruction of illusion and the perceptive process.
Okto TV screened a retrospective of my short films. The interview discussing my work is still available online (in German).
I received a scholarship for the Drehbuchwerkstatt Munich (at the University of Television and Film Munich) where I developed a feature film script, which came second in the Script Talent Award. Mentor: Dieter Pochlatko.
In 2023 I attended the Schreibwerkstatt Waldviertel with tutor Michael Köhlmeier, in 2025 with tutor Gustav Ernst.
In the cinema
In this article I develop some ideas about the integrity of the film viewing experience and the nature of the receptive process. It is available as pdf in English and German and was published in OnCurating.org, Issue 23: The Future of Short Film. Available as print magazine from Amazon.de or Amazon.co.uk
Austrian Film Museum special issue stamp
Austrian Post Office (Österreichische Post AG) has published a special issue stamp in honour of the Austrian Film Museum featuring its historic logo. The stamp also shows the silhouette of Robert Cambrinus with a Super 8mm reel. The image is based on a still taken from his first film “Illegal”.
Stamp designer: Anita Kern Edition: 200 000
The special postmark, which was issued only on the first day of the stamp's publication (31/03/2022), features a quote which is attributed to Amos Vogel
Seeing films is a way of thinking
but may originate from a different source...
Vedere è un modo di pensare (Alfredo Leonardi)
One thing is certain:
Making films is a way of thinking!
The Austrian Film Museum offers various film postcards featuring the special issue stamp with the special postmark.
Limited edition (sold out)
