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Vivien Kristin Buchhorn is a curator, film scholar and art historian. She studied in Zurich, Copenhagen and Berlin, and is now based in both Zurich and Berlin.
From 2015 to 2019 she was a key architect of the film programmes at the Berlin Critics’ Week – held to coincide with the Berlinale – which brought a new focus to debates on cinema. She also worked at the Zeughauskino Berlin, in 2016 organising the first major retrospective on Sohrab Shahid Saless. Her research on Saless has progressed in the meantime and will be evident in film restorations in 2022 as well as a publication produced in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
Since 2019, she has been working alongside Merle Kröger and Volker Pantenburg on the situation relating to the television archives in Germany. Symposia held in tandem with arsenal Berlin sought to strengthen calls for the release of television archive material and to foster debate with broadcasters.
Vivien Kristin Buchhorn also works as a dramaturgical consultant, teaches at the Institute of Time-Based Media (IZM) at Berlin University of the Arts, and is a doctoral candidate at ETH Zurich and the Collegium Helveticum. Through the Cooperation Research Lab programme entitled »Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices«, she explores the perspectives of a new artistic historiography.
She joined Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln as a curator in 2021: looking for new forms and formats in experimental and documentary film, she has a special interest in cinema that takes bold aesthetic as well as transnational positions.

Bernadette Kolonko is a filmmaker, author and artistic researcher. After studying fine arts in Leipzig and film in Berlin, she started her artistic research on feminist aesthetics in contemporary feature film cinema at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2019. In 2023, she published her book “Unsichtbares und Ungesagtes – 10 Female*Feminist*Gazes” at Schüren Verlag.

She is a lecturer and mentor at the Zurich University of the Arts and also teaches at the DFFB and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, among others. She won the ZHdK Teaching Award in 2022 with her teaching and learning concept “Die Sichtbarmachung unsichtbar gemachter Machträume im Filmischen Erzählen und kollaborative Suchbewegungen nach queer-feministischen Blicken und Darstellungsweisen”.

She also works as a dramaturgical consultant for film projects and gives workshops on queer-feminist film work (e.g. Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Rote Fabrik Zürich).

Her short films Un_Sichtbar and Deine schöne Gestalt have screened internationally at festivals including Palm Spring International Film Festival, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis and Tirana International Film Festival.