Creator Spotlight: A Conversation with Anja Salomonowitz

Presentation: Evelio Acevedo, Managing Director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Date and time: Friday, Nov. 8th. 6.00h p.m.

Venue: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Salón de actos. Paseo del Prado, 8

Tickets (type/price/link): Free admission with prior registration through the museum's website - www.museothyssen.org

Type of activity: Conversation. 

Participates:

1. Anja Salomonowitz. Director of Sleeping with a Tiger.

Facilitator: Diego Mas Trelles, Festival co-director.

Info extra:

Activity with the collaboration of the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Activity in German with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

Anja Salomonowitz

Anja Salomonowitz has developed her own film language, in which documentary film, feature film and thesis film are combied. People’s real experiences are condensed through artistic alienation. Her hybrid films all follow a strict concept of color. She is also known for the fact that her films are explicitly political, while expanding the boundaries and possibilities of film in their artistic form. Her films have received international recognition and numerous film awards, and been selected by numerous international film festivals, and are cited in relevant film studies literature.

Anja Salomonowitz studied film in Vienna and Berlin and worked as an assistant to director Ulrich Seidl. She works with students at universities on their films, for example at the Aalto University Helsinki, Department for Film and Television or at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is a tutor at the Documentary Academy at the Jihlava International Film Festival, together with the Filipino filmmaker Khavn de La Cruz. She was chairwoman of the Austrian Documentary Film Association and the Austrian Film Directors Association, and from 2014-2017 served on the supervisory board of the Austrian Film Fund. Anja Salomonowitz works as a dramaturge for the Austrian Screenplay Association. She holds master classes on artistic approaches to film.

Anja Salomonowitz lives in Vienna. She is currently working on a film about the Ukrainian activist Inna Shevshenko, the prominent founder of the feminist group FEMEN. The film is an embodiment of FEMEN‘s visual political art and represents a new pop feminism.