film
transmedia/exhibition
video content
teaching
about
Jan-Holger Hennies works with cameras, microphones and computers to create films, transmedia projects and artistic research: often around political conflict, contexts of violence and practices of resistance.
As a director, cinematographer and/or editor he has been part of independent documentaries for cinema as well as artistic video productions and installations for physical and virtual spaces. The results of these collaborations have been internationally shown and awarded.
Besides, he regularly creates audiovisual content with/for artists, cultural and political organisations.
Currently, Jan also works as a freelance lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and the City (GTAS), TU Braunschweig. He is an MA graduate from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK) and lives between Berlin and Mexico City.
awards
2021
“Best Mexican short documentary”, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico (Dato sensible)
“Honorable mention”, EL CINE SUMA PAZ International Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia (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
“Honorable mention”, Art competition “Was nützen Ihnen die Tatsachen? Wenn sie nicht wissen, was sie damit anfangen sollen!”, Willi Muenzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany („Volksverräter“)
selected festivals
2022
CineFestival San Antonio, Texas, USA
2021
dokumentART, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Shorts México, Mexico City, Mexico
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
RAI FILM Festival, Bristol, UK
“EL CINE SUMA PAZ” International Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
Ciclo Desaparición Forzada, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
2020
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling (official selection), Amsterdam, Netherlands
DocsMX, Mexico City, Mexico
dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
ethnocineca, Vienna, Austria
Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, France
FINNOF | International Festival of New Nonfiction Narratives, Rosario, Argentina
exhibitions
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)