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Around 78 Eric Spitzer was more and more fascinated by audio-visual media resulting in film and video works. From 1979 on living for 15 years NY city, he started working for HBO, NBC and others being a member of NABIT, the local union. Credits include some US drama movies, TV productions as well as documentries. In Austria Eric Spitzer worked for a TV mag "Okay", doing editing and sound, joined in on international overseas documentries ("The John Lennon Story", "Mike Oldfield Project", "M-Around the world-Tour" as a few examples) and completed his studies for film-directing.
Later movie credits include sound for "Cappuccino Melange" (Paul Harrather), "Ein Anfang von Etwas" (Nikolaus Leitner), "Heller als der Mond" (Virgil Widrich), or "In Heaven"(Michael Bindlechner), "Hero" (Christopher Buchholz), and others plus score music for "Exit2" (Franz Novotny), "Dunkle Tage" (Nikolaus Leytner) and many more.
Eric Spitzer worked for hundreds of TV and movie theatre comercials in sound, editing and sound design, some of the most remembered being by "Humanic", "Guess" for director Michael Shapiro and DP J.Kaminsky (Oscar for "Schindler’s List") or "Bank Austria" with DP Harris Savides (Ridley Scott), "Horses" with Elton John and Pavarotti (directed by Federico Brugia) plus many, many others.

Since years there is a close relationship with Werner Herzog, making projects including Herzog’s documentries about a jungle plane crash in Peru "Wings of Hope", "Kinsky- my dearest enemy", or "Kalachakra-Wheel Of Time", shot under quite difficult conditions in India and Tibet and others.
International projects Eric Spitzer made location sound, sound design and score music (as Eric Spitzer-Marlyn) include "Stalin-the Red God" for BBC One (director Frederick Baker), "Boxeo Cuba", shot entirely on the Cuban island (director Dirk Meints), Werner Herzog’s documentation "Wheel of Time" and his latest film "The White Diamond", shot in Guyana and being released in April 2005. Eric Spitzer also directed the "Making of…" documentry on Herzog’s Guyana project. He still produces music projects, doing many remixing plus digital cleaning on seventies minimal music for new digital releases on CDs and publishes his personal songwriting as well.
"Stalin-the red god" has won an Golden Gate Award in SF 2002 . The San Francisco Film Society did mention "…the innovative sound design with imaginative techniques making this film stand out as worthy of our highest award…" in it’s decision.
Eric Spitzer also teaches location sound, sound for TV and movie productions, sound design at the Vienna University of Performing Arts and Music, dept. Film plus TV and in the dept. for Electro-Acoustics.
The award-winning sound design and score music is mainly created at his sound recording studio located in the Austrian countryside one hour off Vienna.
(see " Studio")