Adonia Bouchehri
Adonia Bouchehri is a London based moving image artist. In her work she seeks to investigate how the images we live and grow up with affect our bodies and ways of perceiving lived realities.Throughout her work, she recurrently explores the relationship between memory and imagination. Adonia uses the concept of weaving as a methodology to explore the relationship between narrativity and abstraction. She uses a wide range of media such as video, cgi, and AI to explore the aforementioned themes. Adonia has exhibited her work in the UK and internationally, recently selected exhibitions include the 66th and 64th London Film Festival, VAS/SSA Scottish Royal Academy Edinburgh, New Arts Exchange Nottingham, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Currents New Media, Videoex Switzerland, Fotogenia Mexico, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt MUTEK Montreal and the Goethe Institut Toronto. She was selected for the 2020/2021 Flamin Fellowship.
Adonia Bouchehri is a London based moving image artist. In her work she seeks to investigate how the images we live and grow up with affect our bodies and ways of perceiving lived realities.Throughout her work, she recurrently explores the relationship between memory and imagination. Adonia uses the concept of weaving as a methodology to explore the relationship between narrativity and abstraction. She uses a wide range of media such as video, cgi, and AI to explore the aforementioned themes. Adonia has exhibited her work in the UK and internationally, recently selected exhibitions include the 66th and 64th London Film Festival, VAS/SSA Scottish Royal Academy Edinburgh, New Arts Exchange Nottingham, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Currents New Media, Videoex Switzerland, Fotogenia Mexico, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt MUTEK Montreal and the Goethe Institut Toronto. She was selected for the 2020/2021 Flamin Fellowship.
Nduka Mntambo
Nduka Mntambo is a multidisciplinary artist and academic whose work encompasses urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and artistic research. He focuses his research on the intersection of cinematic artistic practice and urban life within selected cities of the 'global south'. Nduka's works have been showcased at forums including the UN-Habit: World Urban Forum, the Videoex Internationales Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zurich, the Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town, and The Point of Order Project Space in Johannesburg. Currently, he holds the position of Head of the Masters in Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy.
Nduka Mntambo is a multidisciplinary artist and academic whose work encompasses urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and artistic research. He focuses his research on the intersection of cinematic artistic practice and urban life within selected cities of the 'global south'. Nduka's works have been showcased at forums including the UN-Habit: World Urban Forum, the Videoex Internationales Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zurich, the Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town, and The Point of Order Project Space in Johannesburg. Currently, he holds the position of Head of the Masters in Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy.
Phillip Warnell
Phillip Warnell is an artist-filmmaker and writer from London, and first generation university graduate from a working class background. He produces cinematic and art works exploring a range of philosophical, poetic and societal thematics, convergent ideas on human-animal relations, the political and cinematic imagination, the presence of those with prescient or extraordinary attributes and poetics of bodily and life-world circumstances. His work is often performative, establishing elements for a film shoot as (part) event, resulting in an interplay between scripted, documented and (sometimes) precarious filming circumstances. Several of his films have won international film festival awards and screened/exhibited internationally. His feature length film Ming of Harlem (2014-16) is distributed by Thunderbird Pictures and MUBI.
Warnell has worked at numerous universities across the UK, USA and EU, including undertaking visiting professorships and fellowships, most recently at the Radcliffe Institute and Film Studies Centre, Harvard University in 2018. He completed his PhD in 2020 on a decade of collaborations with esteemed philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, that included three films. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Film at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University, China.
www.phillipwarnell.com
info@phillipwarnell.com
Phillip Warnell is an artist-filmmaker and writer from London, and first generation university graduate from a working class background. He produces cinematic and art works exploring a range of philosophical, poetic and societal thematics, convergent ideas on human-animal relations, the political and cinematic imagination, the presence of those with prescient or extraordinary attributes and poetics of bodily and life-world circumstances. His work is often performative, establishing elements for a film shoot as (part) event, resulting in an interplay between scripted, documented and (sometimes) precarious filming circumstances. Several of his films have won international film festival awards and screened/exhibited internationally. His feature length film Ming of Harlem (2014-16) is distributed by Thunderbird Pictures and MUBI.
Warnell has worked at numerous universities across the UK, USA and EU, including undertaking visiting professorships and fellowships, most recently at the Radcliffe Institute and Film Studies Centre, Harvard University in 2018. He completed his PhD in 2020 on a decade of collaborations with esteemed philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, that included three films. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Film at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University, China.
www.phillipwarnell.com
info@phillipwarnell.com
Kersti Grunditz Brennan & Annika Boholm
The BLOD researchers have screened, published and presented their joint work in LA, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon and digitally since 2017. www.blod.one
Kersti Grunditz Brennan, PhD in artistic research, film editor and documentary filmmaker, currently assistant professor of film editing at Stockholm University of the Arts. MFA in choreography from Mills College, CA on a Fulbright scholarship. Research interests focus on cinematic processes based on embodied experiences.
Annika Boholm, author/playwright, instigator of stage co-creation, researcher, and senior lecturer in performing arts. Former dancer/director/choreographer with MA in New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts. Research interests focus on relation-building in collaborative creative processes.
The BLOD researchers have screened, published and presented their joint work in LA, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon and digitally since 2017. www.blod.one
Kersti Grunditz Brennan, PhD in artistic research, film editor and documentary filmmaker, currently assistant professor of film editing at Stockholm University of the Arts. MFA in choreography from Mills College, CA on a Fulbright scholarship. Research interests focus on cinematic processes based on embodied experiences.
Annika Boholm, author/playwright, instigator of stage co-creation, researcher, and senior lecturer in performing arts. Former dancer/director/choreographer with MA in New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts. Research interests focus on relation-building in collaborative creative processes.
Michael Keerdo-Dawson
After a decade working in the British television industry and with several credits as writer and director for independent film under his belt, including the award- winning short Hour After Hour and improvisational feature film Confession. Keerdo-Dawson moved to Estonia and began teaching storytelling and screenwriting at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. In 2022 he released, The Limits of Consent, his first film in Estonia and one which experimented with interactivity. Keerdo-Dawson holds two degrees, one in Dramaturgy and another in Literature, Visual Culture, and Film Studies and is currently in the final year of his PhD.
After a decade working in the British television industry and with several credits as writer and director for independent film under his belt, including the award- winning short Hour After Hour and improvisational feature film Confession. Keerdo-Dawson moved to Estonia and began teaching storytelling and screenwriting at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. In 2022 he released, The Limits of Consent, his first film in Estonia and one which experimented with interactivity. Keerdo-Dawson holds two degrees, one in Dramaturgy and another in Literature, Visual Culture, and Film Studies and is currently in the final year of his PhD.
Daksha Patel
Daksha Patel (www.dakshapatel.co.uk) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works across a wide range of media, materials and technologies. Her inter-disciplinary practice has engaged with Biophysics, Applied Mathematics, Environmental Modelling, Linguistics and Neuroscience. Research residencies within academic institutions such as King’s College, London, regularly inform her practice. She has an ongoing interest in scientific processes of mapping, measurement and visualisation, and has made work with Lidar scanning, photogrammetry, bio-sensors and creative coding. She is currently a Creative Fellow at the University of Exeter working with Environmental justice.
Daksha Patel (www.dakshapatel.co.uk) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works across a wide range of media, materials and technologies. Her inter-disciplinary practice has engaged with Biophysics, Applied Mathematics, Environmental Modelling, Linguistics and Neuroscience. Research residencies within academic institutions such as King’s College, London, regularly inform her practice. She has an ongoing interest in scientific processes of mapping, measurement and visualisation, and has made work with Lidar scanning, photogrammetry, bio-sensors and creative coding. She is currently a Creative Fellow at the University of Exeter working with Environmental justice.
Myrto Farmaki
I am an artist-filmmaker and AHRC funded Ph.D. by practice at the department of film and photography at Kingston University. My research explores narratives of hauntology through the development of viewing and sonic experience via diagrammatic and destabilizing moving image constructions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I develop systems drawn from paradigms of live performance, AI and theatrical tools, psychoanalysis and ritual, archived sound and a non-edited structure, in order to inquire the hauntological within the formal strategies of engagement.
My work has been featured in various places including BBC radio, ICA (London), Wellcome Collection, BFI, and ICA London. Recent commissions include the live performance event 25' by 25' for the exhibition at Wellcome Collections, Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic, and the sound piece 10 Lime Street for BBC New Creatives.
I am an artist-filmmaker and AHRC funded Ph.D. by practice at the department of film and photography at Kingston University. My research explores narratives of hauntology through the development of viewing and sonic experience via diagrammatic and destabilizing moving image constructions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I develop systems drawn from paradigms of live performance, AI and theatrical tools, psychoanalysis and ritual, archived sound and a non-edited structure, in order to inquire the hauntological within the formal strategies of engagement.
My work has been featured in various places including BBC radio, ICA (London), Wellcome Collection, BFI, and ICA London. Recent commissions include the live performance event 25' by 25' for the exhibition at Wellcome Collections, Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic, and the sound piece 10 Lime Street for BBC New Creatives.
Christine Reeh-Peters
Christine Reeh-Peters is a German filmmaker and philosopher holding a PhD from the Lisbon University. She was junior professor for "Theory and Praxis of Artistic Research in Digital Media" at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam 2019-2023 and as well head of the Institute for Artistic Research at the Filmuniversity. From fall 2023, she is full professor for "Film and Digital Arts" at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. Reeh-Peters is editor of several anthologies and one monograph on film-philosophy. She is co-founder, producer and filmmaker at C.R.I.M. in Lisbon since 2003.http://www.crim-productions.com/home/about/ Her research interests include film-philosophy and artistic research in film and digital arts.
Christine Reeh-Peters is a German filmmaker and philosopher holding a PhD from the Lisbon University. She was junior professor for "Theory and Praxis of Artistic Research in Digital Media" at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam 2019-2023 and as well head of the Institute for Artistic Research at the Filmuniversity. From fall 2023, she is full professor for "Film and Digital Arts" at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. Reeh-Peters is editor of several anthologies and one monograph on film-philosophy. She is co-founder, producer and filmmaker at C.R.I.M. in Lisbon since 2003.http://www.crim-productions.com/home/about/ Her research interests include film-philosophy and artistic research in film and digital arts.
Vron Harris
Filmmaker and Lecturer in Film Production at Middlesex University, Vron Harris has over twenty years of experience as a freelance Producer/Director, Director of Photography, Editor and Artist. Vron has worked on a wide range of projects in film, television, documentary and light entertainment, theatre, opera and art. Her research practice explores the construction of film, the representation of time and the evocation of emotion. Vron completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Cinematography at the National Film and Television School and also holds an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication and BA in Film, Television and Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster.
Filmmaker and Lecturer in Film Production at Middlesex University, Vron Harris has over twenty years of experience as a freelance Producer/Director, Director of Photography, Editor and Artist. Vron has worked on a wide range of projects in film, television, documentary and light entertainment, theatre, opera and art. Her research practice explores the construction of film, the representation of time and the evocation of emotion. Vron completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Cinematography at the National Film and Television School and also holds an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication and BA in Film, Television and Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster.
Andre Semenza (Maverick Motion)
Founder of independent film production company Maverick Motion, Andre has produced and directed a number of critically acclaimed and award-winning films. Pushing beyond cinema’s conventions, his films have broken new ground, bringing together the languages of cinema, poetry, physical theatre and dance while exploring issues around same sex love, racial inclusivity and climate change.
As Cinzas de Deus (Ashes of God) is considered the world’s first contemporary dance feature film to be released theatrically in the UK; it features a sound-design by Academy-Award and multiple BAFTA-winner Glenn Freemantle (‘Gravity’) at Pinewood Studios and a music mix by arguably France’s premier music producer Kid Loco.
2015 saw the release of his second feature film 'Sea without Shore', also featuring a sound design by Oscar winner Glenn Freemantle released to rave reviews. Closing film of the Glasgow Film Festival, it was exhibited at UK's leading art house cinemas such as The Barbican, ICA, Regent Street Cinema, Genesis and HOME. In 2016, the film was released in Brazil through Itaú Espaço de Cinema, Brazil’s largest art-house cinema chain. Andre produced Marcus Waterloo's acclaimed dance film We Have Bled (2016). In 2019 he directed the multiple-award-winning LGBTQ+ music video Unfair Game (2019) for Kid Loco’s album 'Rare Birds'.
Together with Fernanda Lippi, Andre co-directs the short film series Turning to Birds, based on diary entries written by algorithms trained on Climate Fiction (cli-fi) and edited by humans at the Visual Methodologies Collective (Amsterdam University). As postcards from a not-so-distant future, these diary entries provide glimpses of life in a world that is heavily impacted by climate change. Its first instalment, Turning to Birds: All Gone (2022) was awarded Best Experimental Art Film exhibited at the AFI World Peace Initiative at Cannes Film Festival 2022.
Founder of independent film production company Maverick Motion, Andre has produced and directed a number of critically acclaimed and award-winning films. Pushing beyond cinema’s conventions, his films have broken new ground, bringing together the languages of cinema, poetry, physical theatre and dance while exploring issues around same sex love, racial inclusivity and climate change.
As Cinzas de Deus (Ashes of God) is considered the world’s first contemporary dance feature film to be released theatrically in the UK; it features a sound-design by Academy-Award and multiple BAFTA-winner Glenn Freemantle (‘Gravity’) at Pinewood Studios and a music mix by arguably France’s premier music producer Kid Loco.
2015 saw the release of his second feature film 'Sea without Shore', also featuring a sound design by Oscar winner Glenn Freemantle released to rave reviews. Closing film of the Glasgow Film Festival, it was exhibited at UK's leading art house cinemas such as The Barbican, ICA, Regent Street Cinema, Genesis and HOME. In 2016, the film was released in Brazil through Itaú Espaço de Cinema, Brazil’s largest art-house cinema chain. Andre produced Marcus Waterloo's acclaimed dance film We Have Bled (2016). In 2019 he directed the multiple-award-winning LGBTQ+ music video Unfair Game (2019) for Kid Loco’s album 'Rare Birds'.
Together with Fernanda Lippi, Andre co-directs the short film series Turning to Birds, based on diary entries written by algorithms trained on Climate Fiction (cli-fi) and edited by humans at the Visual Methodologies Collective (Amsterdam University). As postcards from a not-so-distant future, these diary entries provide glimpses of life in a world that is heavily impacted by climate change. Its first instalment, Turning to Birds: All Gone (2022) was awarded Best Experimental Art Film exhibited at the AFI World Peace Initiative at Cannes Film Festival 2022.
Fernanda Lippi
Award-winning Choreographer, Actor and Movement Director. Founder of Zikzira Physical Theatre and Zikzira Action Space, Fernanda has created critically acclaimed work for film, stage as well as site-specific productions. Her work has been exhibited at The Barbican, The ICA, The Laban Theatre, Regent Street Cinema, Tate Modern, Sky Arts, HOME Manchester, Riverside Studios, Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Teatro Akropolis (Italy), São Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisbon), SESC Pompéia, CCBB and Itaú Espaço de Cinema (Brazil) amongst many others. Fernanda has collaborated with some of the most influential theatre companies in South America such as Teatro da Vertigem and Lot.
A Trinity Laban (London) alumna, Fernanda is recipient of a fellowship from the International Society of Performing Arts (New York). Her first solo Canvas was performed during opening of the Tate Modern, celebrating Louise Bourgeois. Breaking new ground exploring a combination of dance and film, Fernanda choreographed the critically acclaimed dance feature film As Cinzas de Deus (‘Stupendous’ Time Out Critic’s Choice). Her second feature film, Sea without Shore, co-directed with Andre Semenza (‘A cinematic masterpiece’ The Culture Pill; ‘Surrender to its spell’ The Guardian).
Together with Javier de Frutos and Paul Roberts, Fernanda was commissioned by BalletBoyz to co-choreograph the Sky Arts prime-time production Kama Sutra. In 2016, she choreographed and performed in Marcus Waterloo’ s “We have Bled”. In 2017, she was commissioned to choreograph Outro em Si, a large-scale performance nominated for five Sinparc Brazil 2018 awards, picking up Best Performance and Best Dancer. In 2019, Fernanda choreographed and performed in the multiple-award-winning music video ‘Unfair Game’ (Kid Loco). Together with Andre Semenza, Fernanda co-directed Turning to birds, a hybrid film project based on climate fiction written by AI. The first instalment of the series was recipient of the Best Experimental Art Film Award at AFI held at Cannes 2022. Fernanda curates Zikzira Action Space, a pioneering cultural hub in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, officially opened by Jarek Fret, director of the Grotowski Institute, in 2006.
Award-winning Choreographer, Actor and Movement Director. Founder of Zikzira Physical Theatre and Zikzira Action Space, Fernanda has created critically acclaimed work for film, stage as well as site-specific productions. Her work has been exhibited at The Barbican, The ICA, The Laban Theatre, Regent Street Cinema, Tate Modern, Sky Arts, HOME Manchester, Riverside Studios, Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Teatro Akropolis (Italy), São Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisbon), SESC Pompéia, CCBB and Itaú Espaço de Cinema (Brazil) amongst many others. Fernanda has collaborated with some of the most influential theatre companies in South America such as Teatro da Vertigem and Lot.
A Trinity Laban (London) alumna, Fernanda is recipient of a fellowship from the International Society of Performing Arts (New York). Her first solo Canvas was performed during opening of the Tate Modern, celebrating Louise Bourgeois. Breaking new ground exploring a combination of dance and film, Fernanda choreographed the critically acclaimed dance feature film As Cinzas de Deus (‘Stupendous’ Time Out Critic’s Choice). Her second feature film, Sea without Shore, co-directed with Andre Semenza (‘A cinematic masterpiece’ The Culture Pill; ‘Surrender to its spell’ The Guardian).
Together with Javier de Frutos and Paul Roberts, Fernanda was commissioned by BalletBoyz to co-choreograph the Sky Arts prime-time production Kama Sutra. In 2016, she choreographed and performed in Marcus Waterloo’ s “We have Bled”. In 2017, she was commissioned to choreograph Outro em Si, a large-scale performance nominated for five Sinparc Brazil 2018 awards, picking up Best Performance and Best Dancer. In 2019, Fernanda choreographed and performed in the multiple-award-winning music video ‘Unfair Game’ (Kid Loco). Together with Andre Semenza, Fernanda co-directed Turning to birds, a hybrid film project based on climate fiction written by AI. The first instalment of the series was recipient of the Best Experimental Art Film Award at AFI held at Cannes 2022. Fernanda curates Zikzira Action Space, a pioneering cultural hub in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, officially opened by Jarek Fret, director of the Grotowski Institute, in 2006.
Sophie Emmitt
Sophie Emmitt is an actor / dancer and has trained extensively at The Urdang Academy, IDSA, The Actors Temple and Actors East in London. Her most recent work includes acting, writing and producing short film ‘Coming Clean’, as well as collaborating in a series of feature films written by artificial intelligence; experienced by humans.
Sophie Emmitt is an actor / dancer and has trained extensively at The Urdang Academy, IDSA, The Actors Temple and Actors East in London. Her most recent work includes acting, writing and producing short film ‘Coming Clean’, as well as collaborating in a series of feature films written by artificial intelligence; experienced by humans.
Nobunye Levin
Dr Nobunye Levin is a filmmaker, scholar and lecturer. Nobunye’s filmmaking practice and research is concerned with the politics of aesthetics and decolonial feminist and anti-racist thought and practice as it relates to and is realised through film praxis. Her work is informed by the epistemic, poetic and political possibilities of cinematic experimentation. She is preoccupied with feeling and thinking in, and through, film practice to produce politically affective cinematic experiences. Nobunye completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a lecturer in the Film and Television department in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Nobunye is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in decolonising screen worlds in the ERC-funded Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies project, situated at SOAS University of London.
Dr Nobunye Levin is a filmmaker, scholar and lecturer. Nobunye’s filmmaking practice and research is concerned with the politics of aesthetics and decolonial feminist and anti-racist thought and practice as it relates to and is realised through film praxis. Her work is informed by the epistemic, poetic and political possibilities of cinematic experimentation. She is preoccupied with feeling and thinking in, and through, film practice to produce politically affective cinematic experiences. Nobunye completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a lecturer in the Film and Television department in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Nobunye is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in decolonising screen worlds in the ERC-funded Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies project, situated at SOAS University of London.
Joshua Magor
Joshua Magor is a South African writer-director. His work has shown at numerous international festivals and has screened at prestigious institutions such as the Barbican Centre, the Chicago Cultural Centre and the Tatham Art Gallery. His debut feature film “Siyabonga” premiered in the main competition of the 71st Locarno Film Festival. Joshua is a Berlinale Talents alumni and is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, Researching the Screen Group and serves as a Lecturer in Film and Television Practice at London South Bank University.
Joshua Magor is a South African writer-director. His work has shown at numerous international festivals and has screened at prestigious institutions such as the Barbican Centre, the Chicago Cultural Centre and the Tatham Art Gallery. His debut feature film “Siyabonga” premiered in the main competition of the 71st Locarno Film Festival. Joshua is a Berlinale Talents alumni and is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, Researching the Screen Group and serves as a Lecturer in Film and Television Practice at London South Bank University.
Elzbieta Piekacz
My first contact with art came via theatre when I was studying at the Theatre Academy in Poland. I worked as an assistant director, camera operator and co-author of screenplays and adaptations. I moved to London which has become my home and I embarked on the long-term project called ‘HOME’. I graduated with an MA in filmmaking at the London Film School. My graduation film “At Dawn the Flowers Open the Gates of Paradise” premiered at the 72nd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on the Main Programme in the section devoted to “Shorts: Dream Images”.
My first contact with art came via theatre when I was studying at the Theatre Academy in Poland. I worked as an assistant director, camera operator and co-author of screenplays and adaptations. I moved to London which has become my home and I embarked on the long-term project called ‘HOME’. I graduated with an MA in filmmaking at the London Film School. My graduation film “At Dawn the Flowers Open the Gates of Paradise” premiered at the 72nd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on the Main Programme in the section devoted to “Shorts: Dream Images”.
Christiane Hitzemann
Born and raised in Hagen, Germany, after her high school graduation Christiane moved to Taiwan where she worked in a hospital, for German Cultural Institute and German Radio Abroad. Back in Germany she moved to Berlin to study Theatre Sciences, German Literature and Philosophy. During her studies she worked for Leander Haussmann at Schauspielhaus Bochum, Co-Directed with Hamster Damm at Kammerspiele Neubrandenburg and wrote and directed her own work in the Off-Theatre in Berlin. She was an author for Style and the Family Tunes, taught at Merz Academy Stuttgart, and started to work for the Essay Filmmaker Harun Farocki. After moving into narrative fiction, Christiane decided to study a second time and moved to New York to study filmmaking at Columbia University. During her studies she worked for Quentin Taratino among others. After her studies she started to teach at Manchester School of the Arts. She is the founder of chicksflicks, Berlin, and currently teaches at London South Bank University, Royal College of Music, University for Film and TV, Konrad Wolff, Potsdam and Merz Academy, Stuttgart. Christiane lives and works in Berlin, London and elsewhere.
Born and raised in Hagen, Germany, after her high school graduation Christiane moved to Taiwan where she worked in a hospital, for German Cultural Institute and German Radio Abroad. Back in Germany she moved to Berlin to study Theatre Sciences, German Literature and Philosophy. During her studies she worked for Leander Haussmann at Schauspielhaus Bochum, Co-Directed with Hamster Damm at Kammerspiele Neubrandenburg and wrote and directed her own work in the Off-Theatre in Berlin. She was an author for Style and the Family Tunes, taught at Merz Academy Stuttgart, and started to work for the Essay Filmmaker Harun Farocki. After moving into narrative fiction, Christiane decided to study a second time and moved to New York to study filmmaking at Columbia University. During her studies she worked for Quentin Taratino among others. After her studies she started to teach at Manchester School of the Arts. She is the founder of chicksflicks, Berlin, and currently teaches at London South Bank University, Royal College of Music, University for Film and TV, Konrad Wolff, Potsdam and Merz Academy, Stuttgart. Christiane lives and works in Berlin, London and elsewhere.