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Eye Level (wt)
since 2024_feature film_screenplay
Short Film Festival Hamburg
since 2017_international competition_selectionShort, concise, discursive, stimulating, style-forming. The Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg presents the state of the art of the short form and brings together cinema, exhibition, performative works, concerts and discourse …
Workshop: Film macht Schule
2025_workshop_concept and realisationIn the workshop, participants learn about the substantial elements of filmmaking …
A Thousand Waves Away
2025_short film_castThe people are in turmoil. The ground from which their enchanted garden grows, is trembling …
The Reverse Side of the Landscape
2024_short film programme _curationGenre-loaded, five experimental films speak about how we evoke landscapes and act within them…
Kassel Dokfest
2021-2024_short/middle-length film programmes_curationThe The Kassel Dokfest 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 …
This is not the End
2024_LP text insert_authorI was only at sea for fifteen days, but that was enough for me to be transformed …
Path Widens
2024_short film programme_curationWithin an hour, six experimental films come together in which different relationships to the land and soil unfold …
Theresa George Theresa George
SPLITTER
2023_video installation _co-directionA young woman is seen in close-up against a dark background. Her attention is focused on something off-screen…
Former East/ Former West. Videographies at the End of History
2022/23_seminar_teachingHow 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) …
Nacht. Schlaf. Die Sterne
2021_video installation_dramaturgyA 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 …
The Secret Life of Virar Mar
2020_feature film _set-ethnography, authorAt 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 …
Paradise
2019_video installation_dramaturgyIn 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 …
CASANOVA GENE
2018_feature film_researchA 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 …
DRIFT
2017_feature film_cast, concept, researchTwo 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 …
Wildness of Waves
2016_event_conversationa 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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Noose and Crystal were created from the same Pressure
2014_book_artistic assistance"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." …