Author Brenda Hollweg with Marianna Christofides

Brenda Hollweg with Marianna Christofides

Brenda Hollweg is Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on contemporary documentary and the cinematic essay. In 2021, she co-published, together with Marianna Christofides, Days In Between (Hatje Cantz), a comprehensive art book on the artist’s long-term essayistic project across different media. In 2019, she co-edited World Cinema and the Essay Film (EUP, with Igor Krstić). She is currently exploring the manifold ways contemporary women artists and filmmakers engage with the malleable mode of the essayistic to resist systemic forms of violence in affective, aesthetic and thus also political ways. Marianna Christofides is an artist, filmmaker and researcher living and working in Berlin. What drives her practice is the urgency to remain attentive to disregarded undercurrents of sociopolitical, environmental and biographical thrusts. In 2011, she represented Cyprus at the 54th Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions, screenings and lecture performances: (2022) Celluloid Now, Chicago Film Society; 25FPS Film Festival, Zagreb; Akademie der Künste Berlin; mumok Kino, Vienna (2021) Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (2020) Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp Memorial; VIS Journal, History Now (2019) National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest.

Threshold Aesthetics: Marianna Christofides’ Film Essayistic Encounters with ‘The Balkans’

Brenda Hollweg with Marianna Christofides

October 2022

After Yugoslavia

What is the pertinence of past events for the present moment and how can one open up history’s trajectory into the future? – We were sitting in Orșova, a small town in Romania opposite Serbia, where the Cerna R...