JAN-HOLGER HENNIES – DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER
WORK
Forensic Landscapes (webdocumentary, 2020)
Iphigénie en Aulide (music performance, 2020)
Pedagogía Forense (web platform, 2020)
Persistence (documentary, 2019)
mermelada (performance teaser, 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)
INFO
Jan-Holger Hennies is a documentary filmmaker, editor and cinematographer based in Berlin. His works explore different forms of film and web-based narratives, interested in creating alternate approaches to contexts of violence and practices of resistance. He enjoys to branch out of these topics though. Jan is an MA graduate from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
FESTIVALS / SELECTED SCREENINGS
2020
Ambulante (Sección Coordenadas), Mexico
dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
FINNOF | International Festival of New Nonfiction Narratives, Rosario, Argentina
ethnocineca, Vienna, Austria
EASA Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
LASA2020, Guadalajara, Mexico
V Festival de Cine Etnográfico de Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Le Cinéma IFAL, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Arocena, Torreón, 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 “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