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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.

Sandra Riedmair works as a filmmaker, curator and moderator. She studied social sciences and cultural and media theory in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Vienna and Nantes. Since 2018, she has been attending the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, with a stay in Vienna at the Film Academy under Jessica Hausner and Kathrin Resetarits. There she learned about storytelling beyond linear structures, which she continues to develop in her own work. Together with Carla Gesthuisen, she is writing an anthology series about work and friendship, which they developed in the mentoring programme Into The Wild. Between 2016 and 2019, she was involved in setting up the Cologne cultural association Niehler Freiheit, where she initiated film events. This DIY approach shaped the following years, during which she implemented various projects in Cologne’s independent cultural scene. In 2021, she and two friends took over the auftakt festival for young literature, which they continue to co-direct as artistic directors. For many years, she has been moderating for the Short Film Festival Cologne, Film Festival Cologne, Junges Filmfestival Köln, Achtung Berlin and Institut Français, among others. She is currently writing her feature film debut, faule frauen (lazy women).