Campus Magazin Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 22/23

ANIMATIONSINSTITUT 20 YEARS – 20 PROJECTS
ANNA HENCKEL-DONNERSMARCK was born in
Frankfurt am Main in 1973 and grew up in Indonesia,
Japan, England and Bavaria. She studied at Camberwell
College of Art and Design in London and received
her degree from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in
2001, focusing on animation and documentary filmmaking.
Anna works with the moving image in various ways. She
creates video projections for theatre, opera, dance and
music concerts as well as video installations for exhibitions
and museums. She has been commissioned by
institutions such as the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Kunsthalle
Karlsruhe, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hygiene
Museum Dresden, Grimmwelt Kassel, Humboldt Lab
Berlin, ECLAT Festival für Neue Musik, Strenesse, Hessnatur,
Schauspiel Köln, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Berlin,
Komische Oper Berlin and Opernhaus Zürich.
She has collaborated with Constanza Macras/DorkyPark,
Mathilde Monnier, Dissidenten, The Wooster Group
NYC, Laurent Chetouane, Cordula Däuper, Clemens
Gadenstätter, Ensemble Modern, Invisible Playground,
The Berlin Philharmoniker and many others.
For 20 years, Anna has been active as a programmer
(Filmwinter Stuttgart, Kasseler Dokfest, Zebra Poetry
Film Festival, etc.), moderator (Pictoplasma, Stuttgart
International Festival of Animated Film, Buchmesse
Frankfurt, etc.), jury member (Szpilman Award, Milano
Film Festival, Regard Quebec, Tel Aviv Int. Student Film
Festival, Vienna Shorts, Tehran Int. Short Film Festival,
etc.) and panel participant (Fajr Film Festival Tehran,
Curtas Vila do Conde, UCLA, etc.). From 2007 to 2018,
she served as a member of the selection committee for
Berlinale Shorts.
Since 2019 she is the head of Berlinale Shorts, the international
competition for short films at the Berlin International
Film Festival. She teaches film theory and video
practice at various art schools.
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