Biographies

Eunice Martins

Eunice Martins was born in Berlin in 1965 and is a pianist, improviser and composer. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Musikakademie Wiesbaden. Since 2000, she has been Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art’s in-house cinema pianist. She has been a guest and provided musical accompaniments at numerous festivals, theatres and cinematheques, including the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna), the Jornada do Cinema Silencioso Sao Paulo, the Istanbul International Film Festival, the South River Art Center (Shanghai), the National Theater Taipei, the Taiwan Auditorium du Louvre (Paris) and the Cinematek Royale Brussels. She has taught at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main) and the University of Paderborn amongst others and has given workshop and presentations on film and music/sound across the world, including in New Delhi, Sao Paulo & Shanghai.
Eunice Martins' project

Angela Melitopoulos

Artist with a focus on archive research
Angela Melitopoulos was born in Munich in 1961 and lives in Berlin. Since 1985, she has developed art projects using time-based media which explore mobility / migration, mnemonic techniques and micropolitics. The links between editing, the archive and performance play a central role in her work, which is always concerned with realizing new experimental forms. Her productions (video essays, installations, expanded lectures, live editing and seminars) emerge from interdisciplinary research projects (such as "Passing Drama", "B-Zone. Becoming Europe And Beyond", "Liminal Zones", "Möglichkeitsraum" and "Assemblages"). Her video works have been shown at numerous art exhibitions, film festivals and symposia in Germany and abroad (including the Berlin Documentary Forum, the Berlinale Forum Expanded, the Athens Biennale, the Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, the Manifesta 7, the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, the Whitney Museum New York, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) and have received a range of different prizes. She is currently guest professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and is carrying out the "Assemblages" project about psychiatrist and philosopher Felix Guattari together with philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato.
Angela Melitopoulos' project

Avi Mograbi

Filmmaker
Avi Mograbi is an Israeli documentary filmmaker who was born in Tel Aviv in 1956. His experimental documentaries take a critical look at Israel’s policies on the Palestinians. From 1979-1982, Mograbi studied Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and Fine Art at the Ramat Hasharon Art School. After completing his studies, he worked as an assistant director and production assistant before directing his debut film in 1989. Avi Mograbi has shown several of his films at the Berlinale Forum. His film AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival. In 2009, Mograbi was awarded the Konrad Wolf Prize from the Berlin Academy of Arts, receiving 5,000 € and being honored for his role as a "committed contemporary witness of the Middle East Conflict".
In 2011, he received a grant from the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme.
Avi Mograbi's project

Sabine Nessel

Film Studies scholar
Sabine Nessel studied Film Studies, Theatre Studies and Modern German Literature in Erlangen and Berlin. Since 1991, she has held teaching positions at various universities in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Potsdam. She is a founding member and co-publisher of the Internet magazine "Nach dem Film" and editor of the magazine "Frauen und Film". In 2005, she completed her doctoral thesis on "Kino und Ereignis. Das Kinematografische zwischen Text und Körper". In 2008, she was guest professor for Post-1945 Film History and Aesthetics at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. She is currently a researcher at the University of Frankfurt/Main and is working on her habilitation project on the theme of "Kino, Zoo, Moderne". She has numerous different publications to her name both as an author and as an editor.
Sabine Nessel's project

Winfried Pauleit

Film Studies scholar
Winfried Pauleit is a professor and lecturer at the Institute for Art at the University of Bremen, having completed his PhD at the Berlin University of Arts in 2000. He has given numerous presentations and put out a wide range of different publications on film, art and media, most recently "Das ABC des Kinos. Foto, Film, Neue Medien", Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/Basel 2009; "Filmstandbilder. Passagen zwischen Kunst und Kino", Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/Basel 2004. He is co-founder of the Internet platform "Nach dem Film".
Winfried Pauleit's project

Joel Pizzini

Filmmaker and film curator
Author of film-essays, video-installations and critical texts, he has received dozens of international and national awards. Films like ENIGMA DE UM DIA (1996) and ANABAZYS (2009) has been presented in the Venice Film Festival, just like GLAUCES, ESTUDO DE UM ROSTO (2001) and DORMENTE (2005) that appeared in important events such as the Festival de Locarno and Oberhausen.
He is counselor for the Escola do Audiovisual in Fortaleza; professor in the Faculty of Arts in Paraná; curator of the works of Gauber Rocha and co-director along with Paloma Rocha of the documentaries in the Glauber Rocha’s DVDs.
He participated in the project Artecidade e da Bienal de São Paulo, Mercosul with video-installations and performance direction. He recently released the documentary ELOGIO DA GRAÇA which was selected for the official competition of "Visions du Réel" in Nyon, Switzerland. He is currently finishing the film OLHO NU about the singer Ney Matogrosso, co-produced by Canal Brasil and MR. SGANZERLA produced by the Instituto Itaú Cultural.
He is one of the 2012 Goethe-Institut Fellows.

Constanze Ruhm

Artist and author
Constanze Ruhm was born in Vienna in 1965. She studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Since 1990, she has exhibited internationally, with her work encompassing installations, film/videos, publications and curatorial activities (haus.0programm at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 2001–2003; "Fate of Alien Modes", Secession Wien 2003 and ZKM Karlsruhe 2004). Her work develops a contemporary artistic practice which explores the interactions between film/film theory, theatrical forms and new media primarily with regard to questions of identity, representation and (feminist) film theory. Her productions include installations, film/video work, text/publications, curatorial projects and websites, often spanning more than one of these areas at the same time. She has also completed works for public space (most recently in the form of an invitation to take part in a competition on the Kunstpassage Karlsplatz, Vienna).
Since 2006, she has been professor for Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2007, she has also been an adjunct professor at the Art Institute Boston / Lesley University. She lives in Vienna and Berlin. Her most recent video piece MY_NEVER_ENDING_BURIAL_PLOT received its world premiere at the Forum Expanded section of the 2010 Berlinale.
Constanze Ruhm's project