Madeleine Bernstorff______________
Filmprogramme - Andere Projekte mit Anderen - Filme & Videos - Displays - Lehre & Vorträge - Sputnik - Blickpilotin
Bilka - Texte - Miesmuschel

 

 

___curriculum vitae

Filmcurator, writer, Super8-Filmmaker, teacher, lives in Berlin

- teaches in the field of documentary theory in Berlin, Vienna and Braunschweig art academies
- born in Munich, studies of Anglistics and Philosophy
- Co-founder of the independent Cinema SPUTNIK, Berlin 1984
- filmcurator in the field of migrancy, city planning, suffragettes, early womens cinema etc.

 

Filmcriticism:

for Die Tageszeitung, Freitag, Frauen und Film (=Women and Film)

 

Film- und Videoarbeiten:

mostly in Super8 (have a look at "Filme & Videos")



Publications & Essays (among others) :

From the Past to the Future: Suffragettes – Extremists of Visibility in Berlin. In KINtop, Studies in Early Cinema, ed. Martin Loiperdinger, (John Libbey Publishing Oct 2011)

Between two evils… essay about Mae West for Kyk y Perfume, edited by Vebjørn Guttormsgaard Møllberg+Ingrid Forland, 5/2011

fanzine Iceploitation “frozen heart- freezing hell”- Tromsø kunstforening/Kunstakademiet 3/2011

Essay: Educative treatments. The experience of Institutions as learning process in Frederick Wisemans HIGH SCHOOL Films, in: „Das Erziehungsbild“/ the Image of education, (ed. Tom Holert & Marion von Osten) 11/ 2010

Small Pathes-intertwined histories, in: Colonial Modern, ed. Marion v. Osten, Serhat Karakayali, Tom Avermaete, 7/ 2010

Spaces of tension & multiple movements - Interview by Dietmar Schwärzler/kolik film about my programming work. 3/2010

Contested Documentary Values. In: Stagings. Kabul, Film & the Production of Representation, ed. Sandra Schäfer, Berlin 2009

Involved/Detached: the super8-work of Milena Gierke, festival catalogue 25fps, Zagreb, 8/2009

Kabul/Teheran 1979 ff - Films, Cities under Stress and Migration, ed. Sandra Schäfer, Jochen Becker and Madeleine Bernstorff (b_books, metrozones june 2006)

Trinh T. Minh-Ha - Films, Texts, Talks (ed. with Hedwig Saxenhuber, München. Wien 1995)

The contribution of France - french film politics in postwar Germany

Oh those Eyes
- silent film comedienne Mabel Normand (Film und Kritik, Frankfurt 1996)

Long While- duration in films by Chantal Akerman, Michael Snow and Nina Menkes
(Be- Magazin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien 1995)

Women film pioneer Lois Weber
(Frauen und Film 1994)

 

Film series, Lectures and other presentations recent:

Selforganisation- Filmpool (More) work to do for the exhibition at Shedhalle Zürich 3 + 10/2007

New ghost entertainment entitled.
Filmprogram Pacifique Cinematheque Vancouver, and Dresden

Reformpause - educational politics
, Film Program with Marion von Osten, University of Lüneburg

Family bonding.
Filmfestival Project Migration with Marion von Osten, Köln. Kunstverein 12/2005

Remember Resistance - filmgroup:
Presentations about postcoloniality and migrancy

Cinema and it's phantoms
(The art of programming) HBK Braunschweig 2005

 

Exhibitions:

New ghost entertainment entitled, Shadowbox in the Exhibition by Katrin Pesch, Or-gallery Vancouver Oct / Nov 2006, Kunsthaus Dresden Dec/ February 2007

"Candan"
Super8 / DVD-Installation Project Migration, Kunstverein Köln
Sept 05 - Jan 06

"A political feeling- I hope so"
- Performance & Films with Emma Hedditch Cubitt Gallery London 1/ 04

Video for the exhibition "Im Geschmack der Zeit" with Christian Philipp Müller, Berlin, Basel 2003

Videoletterprojekt "women's solidarity"
Ines Doujak Wien 1996

Trailer "Forgotten Future" together with Christian Philipp Müller, Kunstverein München 1991

 

Jurys and other functions:

Member of the Programming Committee for the Competitions Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (since 2000),

Member of shortfilmjury Eastern European Filmfestival Cottbus (since 1999)

Award by the students of University of the Arts in Berlin for "Good Teaching" (Die Gute Lehre) Nov. 05

Archival research:

Participating in the project Living Archive at Arsenal Institute for film+video/art, Berlin from 6/2011

Police files on the Suffragette movement, National Archives London/Kew, may 2010
(post-)colonial films at the centre cinematographic in Rabat/Marocco + at Albert Kahn archives in Paris, 2008

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and:
Different works in the field of filmproduction:
set management, research, script consultant, sound and translation

 

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