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*LECTURE* - 11. - 13.11.2021

I will be giving a presentation on my PhD project at the workshop 'Performative (Auto-)Biografien', organized by the 'Working Group Biography and Gender' at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

*UPCOMING SCREENING IN BERLIN*

My film ES GIBT (engl. THERE IS) will be shown at FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter at ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin at 6pm on Octovber 23rd.

*FILM FUNDING*

I am happy to announce that my first feature documentary got development funding by the Film and Media Fund of NRW, Germany. Looking forward to research and conceptualize!

*ARTIST TALK ONLINE NOW*

You can now find my artist talk at ART HUB Copenhagen online. It's in English and I talk about the notion of collaboration in my work.

*ALL FILMS IN DISTRIBUTION AT LIGHT CONE*

From now on all my film-based short films will be distributed by LIGHT CONE in Paris! I am honored to have my work among so many other great experimental films.

*FEMINIZATION OF POLITICS*

I am happy to announce that I will be a fellow at the Sommerakademie Paul Klee for the next two years!

The online Talk with historian and director of the NS Documentation Centre in Krefeld, Germany and Journalist Nora Hespers is now online.

Please follow THIS LINK or click the image to watch the conversation!

February 19 2021, 6PM on ZOOM and live stream on Facebook

Online talk *in German* FAMILIENFORSCHUNG UND GENDERROLLEN IM NATIONALSOZIALISMUS

December 2020 - March 2021

IDENTITY IS UNCERTAINTY #II

The exhibition IDENTITY IS UNCERTAINTY #2: ‹Trauma›‹Art›‹Activism›‹Revolution› shows new works produced in Innsbruck by the participants of the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen 2019–20. Anna DASOVIĆ, KURS (Mirjana Radovanović and Miloš Miletić), Lena Ditte NISSEN and Airi TRIISBERG focused on projects addressing constructions of identity that are of constituent significance for our present. The foundations of these identity constructions are to be found in the humus of (Post)National Socialist and (Post)Communist historical events: The military construct of the “Other” in the course of the UN presence during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, activist biographies in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also the National Socialist ideology and its subcutaneous persistence to the present day, as well as its counterpart in Yugoslavia – the partisan movement and its culture – were topics and the projects‘ onsets of the Fellows’ theoretical and artistic working proposals.

October 2020 - 26.10-01.11.2020

GERMAN PREMIERE of THERE IS at DOK LEIPZIG

My short film ES GIBT / THERE IS (english title) has its German premiere in the International Competition at this years DOK LEIPZIG!

I had a really great conversation about the film with selection team member Carolin Weidner - find it here:

https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/qa-es-gibt

September 2020 - 12.09.2020

PERFORMATIVE WALK _ NEHMT ES WIE ES IST

Den Ausgangspunkt von NEHMT ES WIE ES IST bilden die unveröffentlichten Memoiren der Großmutter (*1902) von Lena Ditte Nissen – Tochter der Reichshebammenführerin Nanna Conti (*1881). Die Großmutter zeichnete 1945 die Flucht der Familie vor den Alliierten auf und beschrieb die Sorge um die Familie und das Schicksal des Führers. Der performative Walk versteht sich als eine mehrschichtige, reflexive und analytische Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Schriftstücken, in welchen die Künstlerin und Filmemacherin Lena Ditte Nissen den intergenerationellen Folgen des Nationalsozialismus, nachgeht.

In NEHMT ES WIE IST nähert sich die Historikerin und Jiddistin Sandra Franz den Memoiren Contis aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht und mit Fokus auf die Rolle der Frau im Nationalsozialismus, an. Originalauszüge werden von den Schauspielerinnen Ruth Rosenfeld und Almut Zilcher gesprochen. Eine weitere sprachliche Ebene bilden Dialoge zwischen Rosenfeld und Zilcher, die als Kommentare auf die Originaltexte fungieren und aus mehrstimmigen Interpretationen der Memoiren stammen. Diese Interpretationen entstanden in einer Reihe von gruppenanalytischen Deutungswerkstätten mit 12 Teilnehmer* innen und unter der Leitung des Kulturwissenschaftlers und Analytikers Prof. Dr. Jochen Bonz, während Nissens Fellowship-Programm am Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck.

Lena Ditte Nissen | Recherche & Konzept

Ruth Rosenfeld, Almut Zilcher | Performerinnen

Jide Tom Akinleminu, Jule Katinka Cramer | Dokumentation

Katharina Book | Assistenz

Fördergeber*innen

A Handful of Dust | Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa

Recherche | Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen

September 2020 - 8/9.9.2020

SOLO SCREENING

of my four short films KORONA (2013), ANÓME (2015), THE PLACE I WILL HAVE LEFT (2017) and THERES IS (2020) at LEO Kino Innsbruck, Austria, as part of the feminist film series KINOVISIEON. An ongoing series of films by female filmmakers since 2005.

Q&A at LEO Kino Innsbruck

Q&A after the Screenig at LEO Kino, Innsbruck

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I've started a podcast about art in times of corona. It's called SADNESS OF MISSING OUT.

Available on SoundCloud and Spotify and all other podcatchers.

8.4.2020 Solo Screening of 4 short films at LEO KINO in Innsbruck, as part of the screenings series kinoviSIEon with films by female filmmakers

4/5.4.2020 REFLEXIVE ALLIANCE

Second workshop with Prof. Dr. Jochen Bonz at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen

20.3.2020

Premiere of my new short film THERE IS at CPH DOX!

THERE IS (original title: ES GIBT) circles around artist and filmmaker Margaret Raspé (*1933), her position in the world and the automatisms, that play an important role in her work.

Margaret Raspé is a pioneer of German feminist experimental film. Her films and artworks have gotten renewed attention in the last years: a retrospective at cinema Arsenale in Berlin and the inclusion of her film "Alle Tage wieder -Let them swing" from 1973 in Berlinale 2019. Her films are archived by the Deutsche Kinemathek.

Screening times during CPH:DOX:
20.3. 19:45 at Cinemateket
22.3. 20:00 at Mezzaninen, Charlottenborg Kunsthal
23.3. 17:20 at Cinemateket

6.2.2020 Performative presentation at UOPIA Symposium by Filmbüro NW, with Alisa Berger as duo BERGERNISSEN, Cologne

6.2.2020 Lecture Performance at UOPIA Symposium by Filmbüro NW, with Alisa Berger as duo BERGERNISSEN, Cologne

18/19.1.2020 REFLEXIVE ALLIANCE Workshop with Prof. Dr. Jochen Bonz

9.1.2020 - 18.1.2020 Exhibition of AWAKENING DESTRUCTION - a project by bergernissen - at GEUMCHEON ART SPACE, Seoul

10.12.2019 Masterclass / screening at FAMU, Prague

9.11.2019 PREMIERENTAGE - talk about ongoing film project THERE IS

1.11.2019 screening of THE PLACE I WILL HAVE LEFT at CIRUITO NOMADICA, Bologna

24 - 29.10. 2019 Selected participant at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival Academy

11.10.2019 Start Up Lectures at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen

October 2019 - June 2020 Residency at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen

6.7.2019 Screening of BLOW JOB at BLONDE COBRA - queer experimental film night