Book Presentation. Helena Wittmann. Where is the blue?
Date and time: Thursday, Oct. 30th. 5.30 p.m.
Venue: Goethe-Institute Madrid
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Title: Book Presentation: "Helena Wittmann. Where's the blue?"
Activity Type: Book Presentation
Participants:
- Helena Wittman / Cinematographer and Director / Germany
- Antonio Miguel Arenas / Editor / Spain
- Domingo Sánchez Mesa / Editor / Spain
– With the collaboration of the Proyecto FicTrans and the Festival Jóvenes Realizadores
Presentation of the book "Helena Wittmann. Where's the blue?" With the presence of Helena Wittmann and the editors Antonio Miguel Arenas (Co-director of the Jóvenes Realizadores Festival) and Domingo Sánchez Mesa (Professor at the University of Granada). Several authors will also attend.
Publication of a monograph by the University of Granada, in collaboration with the FicTrans Project, the Young Filmmakers Festival and the Goethe-Institut of Madrid.
The book is entitled "Helena Wittmann. Where is the blue?" and has been coordinated by Domingo Sánchez-Mesa (Professor at the University of Granada) and Antonio Miguel Arenas (Co-director of the Jóvenes Realizadores Festival). In addition to a semblance of her full filmography and various transversal texts, it includes an in-depth interview conducted by Víctor Paz. Among its signatories are renowned critics such as Devika Girish, Ramón Rey, Javier H. Estrada, Eulalia Iglesias, Daniela Urzola or Jonay Armas, among others.
Helena Wittmann, born in 1982 in Neuss, Germany, is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Hamburg. Her works, such as her debut film Drift (2017), have been shown at prestigious international festivals such as Venice, Toronto, New York, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, Viennale, FID Marseille and FICUNAM; as well as in exhibitions, and has received numerous awards. Her second feature film, Human Flowers of Flesh (2022), premiered at the Locarno Festival and the Seville European Film Festival. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and has been a mentor at the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in Donostia. In addition to her own films, she has worked as cinematographer for other filmmakers such as Luise Donschen, Adnan Softic and Philipp Hartmann. Her latest short film, A Thousand Waves Away, had its world premiere this year at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
