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Geeske Janßen, artist and filmmaker, creates visual poetics of the everyday by exploring the beauty in what is often dismissed as banal and inaccessible. With her documentary approach, based on the use of film, interviews and photography, she creates a subjective documentary view of the world that presents reality in an unexpected way through her compositional framing and detailed perspectives. She documents and captures moments, places and situations that would otherwise go unnoticed. Her work invites us to see the world in a new way and enables us to discover unexpected perspectives on our own and other people's lives and normalities.
Country: Germany
T-Port Partner: Hessische Film und Medienakademie (hFMA)
Webpage: https://geeskejanssen.com/
Geeske Janßen studied Media Art at the HGB Leipzig, Performing Arts at the HBK Braunschweig, Bellas Artes at the UPV Valencia and was part of the Graduate School for Moving Image at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Since 2023 she has been an artistic assistant at the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Her work has been shown at the Weimar Poetry Film Award Festival, ALFILM Festival, Flensburg Short Film Festival, FESTIVAL FOTOGENIA Mexico City, SHORTS Trinational Film Festival Offenburg, KURZSUECHTIG Film Festival Leipzig, VID & SOUND BIME PRO Film Festival, Bilbao, among others. Her works have also been presented at the Kunstverein Kassel, FOTOHAUS | PARISBERLIN/ Arles, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg (S), Kunstverein Speyer, Havarie Space as part of the Documenta 15 program, Kassel, HALLE14/ Leipzig, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and the Gedenkstätte deutsch-deutsche Teilung, Marienborn. She has received a residency grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council/ Ohio and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, film funding from Hessenfilm, a grant from the Kulturwerk Foundation of VG Bild-Kunst, a “NEUSTART” working grant from the Art Fund Foundation, a residency grant from the Goethe Institute Thessaloniki and HALLE14/ Leipzig, a Denkzeit grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, a photography prize from the Cultural Foundation of the Oldenburg Public Insurance Company and has been nominated for the NORDWALD Prize, the NORDWALD Prize for Photography, the NORDWALD Prize for Photography and the NORDWALD Prize for Photography. for the NORDWESTKUNST Prize of the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, the “Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer.
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