Jan-Holger Hennies is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and editor. His work across independent cinema productions, transmedia projects and artistic research has been internationally shown and awarded. He regularly collaborates and takes on assignments in the realms of arts, culture, and politics.
Jan is an MA graduate from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK) and lives between Berlin and Mexico City.
Among others, he has worked with and/or for:
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin
Anne Huffschmid (director and researcher, Freie Universität Berlin)
Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung
ensemble mosaik
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (giz)
GTAS, Technologische Universität Braunschweig
Klassik Stiftung Weimar (with pianist Lucas Blondeel)
Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs
Mexican Team for Forensic Anthropology
station hellersdorf / nGbk
UNBLOCK FairArtFair Lichtenberg
URBAN Nation – Museum for Urban Contemporary Art
awards
2021
Best Mexican short documentary, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico (Dato sensible)
2020
Winner category “Made in Mexico”, DocsMX, Mexico City, Mexico (Persistencia)
Winner category “Webdoc”, FINNOF | International Festival of New Nonfiction Narratives, Rosario, Argentina (Forensic Landscapes)
2017
Special Award, Art competition “Was nützen Ihnen die Tatsachen? Wenn sie nicht wissen, was sie damit anfangen sollen!”, Willi Muenzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany („Volksverräter“)
festivals and selected screenings
2021
dokumentART, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Shorts México, Mexico City, Mexico
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
RAI FILM Festival, Bristol, UK
Romero-Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany
“EL CINE SUMA PAZ” International Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
Hasta encontrarnos. Memorias en resistencia, Mexico City, Mexico
Ciclo Desaparición Forzada, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
el aleph, Festival de Arte y Ciencia, Mexico City, Mexico
SIEF2021, Helsinki, Finland
Foro de Cine Etnográfico, VI COMASE, Mexico
2020
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling (official selection), Amsterdam, Netherlands
DocsMX, Mexico City, Mexico
Ambulante (Sección Coordenadas), Mexico
dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
ethnocineca, Vienna, Austria
Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, France
Festival Internacional de Cine de los Derechos Humanos de Sucre, Bolivia
FINNOF | International Festival of New Nonfiction Narratives, Rosario, Argentina
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Greece
Festival de Cine Etnográfico de Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
EASA Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
LASA2020, Guadalajara, Mexico
Le Cinéma IFAL, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
Cineforo Universidad, Guadalajara, Mexico
Cineteca Chihuahua, Chihuahua City, Mexico
Brot für die Welt, Berlin, Germany
Indigenous Film Screenings for International Mother Language Day, London, UK
2018
Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City, Mexico
Native Spirit Film Festival, London, UK
Centro Cultural José Martí, Mexico City, Mexico
Goethe Institute Bogotá, Colombia
Goethe Institute Mexico City, Mexico
FIFEQ, Montreal, Canada
SEF Festival, Zadar, Croatia
Language and Identity Explorations through Film, OWRI Film Screening, Manchester, UK
2017
OneWithAMovieCamera, Marburg, Germany
Viscult, Joensuu, Finland
SEF Festival, Zadar, Croatia
FIFEQ, Quebec and Montreal, Canada
2016
Filmed Up, HOME Manchester, UK
exhibitions
2021
KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium (group exhibition)
2019
2nd Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France (group exhibition)
Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel, Germany
2018
Galerie bauchhund salonlabor, Berlin, Germany
Atelier Farbfieber e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
Bezirk (Goethe-Zentrum), Guadalajara, Mexico
Centro Cultural Alemán, Monterrey, Mexico
2017
Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita, Mexico City, Mexico
FMP1, Berlin, Germany (group exhibition)