Theresa George (*1984) is a film anthropologist based in Hamburg. From 2005 to 2013, she studied cultural anthropology, journalism and political science in Leipzig. Since then, she has co-developed films and videos in changing constellations, works for film festivals, curates her own programmes and teaches visual anthropology.  


The Reverse Side of the Landscape

Genre-loaded, five experimental films speak about how we evoke landscapes and act within them.

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2024_short film programme 
Curation



This is not the End

I was only at sea for fifteen days, but that was enough for me to be transformed…

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Author




Kassel Dokfest

The The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is a yearly six-day event taking place in Mid-November, organizer is the Filmladen Kassel e.V. It is known and loved for its intimate atmosphere, where the local audience as well as filmmakers and media professionals from Germany, Europe and the whole world meet every year.

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since 2021_short film programmes
Curation




Path Widens 

Within an hour, six experimental films come together in which different relationships to the land and soil unfold. Across rivers and lakes, by waterfalls and fountains. Sometimes silence spreads. Then a sound, a noise, a melody.

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2024_short film programme
Curation Theresa George Theresa George  




SPLITTER

A young woman is seen in close-up against a dark background. Her attention is focused on something off-screen; her concentrated gaze suggests a space that we cannot perceive. Surrounded by high-pitched…

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2023_video installation
Co-direction




Former East/ Former West. Videographies at the End of History 

How did the ‘former GDR’ come into being? How must people protect themselves from the reunified Germans? How did Lenin become a mushroom? And what do we do today with the ‘pile of history’ (Thomas Heise)?

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2022/23_seminar
Teaching




Nacht. Schlaf. Die Sterne

A propeller can be a driving force by transferring energy to an object connected to it, but also a receiving force by recovering energy. Thus, in one way or another, propellers are always about power …

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2021_video installation
Dramaturgy




The Secret Life of Virar Mar

At the very beginning there is a desire for a life with film. More precisely: to understand filmmaking as an occasion to travel and connect with people (…)


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2020_feature film
Set-ethnography, Author




Paradise

In 1996 at 23 years of age, Zeynep Kınacı (codename: Zilan) straps explosives around her stomach in the Tunceli (Dersim) region. Disguised as a pregnant woman, she tears herself and seven Turkish soldiers to death. On this day, she goes down in history as the first Kurdish suicide bomber (…)

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2019_video installation
Dramaturgy




CASANOVA GENE

A person enters the frame dressed up as a bird. In a dressing room, John Malkovich sheds the costume of Casanova. A young woman's skirt is just as orange as the beak of a zebra finch singing in a cage. White lilies stand at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary, red roses in front of the window of an SM studio (…)

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2018_feature film
Research




DRIFT

Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in Argentina while the other one will try to come a step closer to the ocean (…)  

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2017_feature film
Cast, Concept, Research





Wildness of Waves

a lecture by Stefan Helmreich
a video sound installation by Nika Son and Helena Wittman
a discussion beteween Stefan Helmreich and Theresa George

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2016_event
Conversation




Noose and Crystal were created from the same Pressure

"The tomatoes here just don't taste good to me. And they still don't taste good to me even 20 years later! This observation of the ‘wrong’ tomato on the dining table is in a way mystified, symbolised and elevated to a small but powerful monument of the de-localised."

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2014_book
Artistic Assistance