JAN-HOLGER HENNIES – DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
FILM / TRANSMEDIA
Forensic Landscapes (webdocumentary, 2020)
Pedagogía Forense (web platform, 2020)
Persistence (documentary, 2019)
Enlaces | Links (exhibition, 2017-2019)
Subversive Diversity (short documentary, 2017)
„Volksverräter“ (stop motion essay short, 2017)
Eilean a’ Cheò | Isle of Mist (short documentary, 2016)
VIDEO
Piano Hero #1 (music performance, 2020)
Iphigénie en Aulide (music performance, 2020)
One Wall (mural paintings, 2020)
mermelada (performance teaser, 2019)
INFO
Jan-Holger Hennies is a documentary filmmaker based between Berlin and Mexico City. His works explore different forms of film and web-based narratives, often concerning contexts of violence and practices of resistance. A graduate from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK), he takes inspiration from sensory ethnography and artistic research.
Over the past years, Jan has closely worked with visual creator and researcher Anne Huffschmid, exploring the role of forensics as a means against forced disappearance and the current crisis of violence in Mexico. Outcome of this collaboration have been the webdoc “Forensic Landscapes” (2020) and the feature documentary “Persistence” (2019), among others. Jan also joined the Mexican Team for Forensic Anthropology (EMAF) in the creation of a “Forensic Pedagogy” and corresponding web platform. Other artistic endeavours include the multimedia exhibition “Enlaces | Links”, in collaboration with artist Mirjana Mitrovic, which focused on cyberfeminism and internet technology in Mexico and Germany.
Jan has also created video content for clients in arts and culture such as Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, BTHVN2020, URBAN NATION – Museum for Urban Contemporary Art.
FESTIVALS / SELECTED SCREENINGS
2020
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling (official selection), Amsterdam, Netherlands
15 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
2019
“From solitude to desolation”, 2nd Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France
(collective exhibition curated by Frida Escobedo + iii (Luciano Concheiro and Xavier Nueno))
“Enlaces | Links”, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel, Germany
2018
“Enlaces | Links”, Galerie bauchhund salonlabor, Berlin, Germany
“Enlaces | Links”, Atelier Farbfieber e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
“Enlaces | Links”, Bezirk (Goethe-Zentrum), Guadalajara, Mexico
“Enlaces | Links”, Centro Cultural Alemán, Monterrey, Mexico
2017
“Enlaces | Links”, Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita, Mexico City, Mexico
“Was nützen Ihnen die Tatsachen? Wenn sie nicht wissen, was sie damit anfangen sollen!”, FMP1, Berlin, Germany (collective exhibition)
AWARDS
2020
Winner category “Made in Mexico”, 15 DocsMX, Mexico City, Mexico
Winner category “Webdoc”, FINNOF | International Festival of New Nonfiction Narratives, Rosario, Argentina
2017
Special Award, Art competition “Was nützen Ihnen die Tatsachen? Wenn sie nicht wissen, was sie damit anfangen sollen!”, Willi Muenzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany