Director Film Producer Writer Consultant DOP Editor Sound Recording Ginan Seidl
Ginan Seidl is an artist and filmmaker of German-Iraqi descent. Working across film and multi-channel video installations, she moves between documentary and fiction, drawing on different perspectives and cosmovisions to create poetic forms of storytelling, knowledge exchange and shared experience.
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Inverse geometry
10 Min., Experimentalfilm , KurzfilmInverse Geometry unfolds a fictional story about the crossing of intimate boundaries. At the centre of its cinematic inquiry is the domestic interior: its furnishings, its objects, and the ways in which they are spatially inscribed within architecture.

Moretones
89 Min., DokumentarfilmAnimal spirits wander through the night. Bruises appear on people‘s bodies. Echoes of displacement and slavery of Afro-descendants find resonance in the melancholic landscapes of the Mexican Costa Chica.

Farah
75 Min., DokumentarfilmFARAH follows an Afghan teenager raised as a boy under the “Bacha Posh” tradition as she searches for her identity in Germany.

We wanted to kill all nasty ones
91 Min., DokumentarfilmA deadpan, reality-based satire about the improbable purchase and impossible sale of a bunker hill — a film poised between rigorous documentary observation and dryly comic science fiction.

Rotation
8 Min., KurzfilmMoving through familiar routines, a pole dancer and a rhythmic gymnast each take over the other's stage. Conceived as an experiment, ROTATION explores the reciprocal relationship between body, dance and space.

Boy
30 Min., Dokumentarfilm , Kurzfilm»BOY« narrates through pictures of urban environments and close observations the lives of a girl which is raised as a boy in Afghanistan and a young afghan singer, who now lives in London but wore boys clothes to be more free in afghan society.

Spin
80 Min., ExperimentalfilmBeginning with a rotational movement, SPIN places mobility and difference, relationality and the absence of answers at the centre of an inquiry poised between theoretical physics and Sufism.

Kaltes Tal
12 Min., Dokumentarfilm , KurzfilmKALTES TAL explores, through a dialectical lens, our relationship to nature as both a repository of raw materials and a mystical realm of possibility.

Last Year in Utopia
73 Min., Dokumentarfilm , ExperimentalfilmLast Year in Utopia documents an experimental set-up: a staged group media experiment, isolated from the outside world, is reconstructed on the site where the original events unfolded. The boundaries between autonomy and heteronomy dissolve in new role assignments as the film makes the power structure behind the artificially created utopia visible.

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Dr. Artium Programm an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Künste Wien
Teilnahme PEERS Programm der ZHdK, Vorbereitung auf PhD in Arts and Practice
berlinale talents
Beirut Backstory, Residency des Goethe Instituts
Teilnahme an der Fortsetzung des Weiterbildungsprogrammes „Professional Media Master Class Lab” von Werkleitz e.V.
Arbeitsstipendium der Kunstsiftung Sachsen-Anhalt
Stipendium Fokus Junge Kunst der Jürgen Ponto Stiftung
Graduiertenförderung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
EMARE-Mexiko Stipendium
Diplom an der Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein
Teilnahme an der Weiterbildungsmaßnahme „Professional MediaMaster Class” von Werkleitz e.V., im Bereich Experimental- und Dokumentarfilm
Preisträgerin des Saalesparkassenpreises 2012
Kunstpreisträgerin des Kunstpreises für junge Kunstder Heitland Foundation
Atelierstipendium in Istanbul
Nebenhörerschaft in der Medienkunst an der UdK Berlin, bei Maria Vedder
Auslandsstudium in Méxiko Stadt, ENAP
Kunststudium an der Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/Saale
geboren in Berlin
Ausstellungen/Festivals/Preise
„Moretones” Premiere auf dem CPH:DOX, Dänemark und FICUNAM, Mexiko
Berlinische Galerie Video Raum
WRO Installation „Spin”, Wroclaw
DG Kunstraum München
#gendershift Teilnahme an Gruppenausstellung
Vorführung von „SPIN” beim Polnischen Tanztheaterfestival paradoks Festival 2021 in Leipzig
„Spin” als Installation Performance Dead Angle Defect im IDEAL Kunstraum
Teilnahme an der Ausstellung: Bodies that matter NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
„BOY” bei Cinema in Context
Teilnahme an der Ausstellung: Forgotten Enlightment, Halle 14, Spinnerei
„rotation“ auf dem Tampere Filmfestival
„Bacha Posh“ auf dem „Flaneuese“, Bourges Festival und in der Burg Galerie, Volkspark
„Spin“ auf der 67. Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Deutschland, CPH:DOX 2017, Dänemark, Nowy Horyzonty 2017, Polen, Festifreak 2017, Argentinien
„Bacha Posh“ auf der Sinopale, Turkey
„subconscious areas“ in der Spinnerei, Leipzig
„Spin“ auf der Ausstellung „SEHT, da ist DER MENSCH“ im Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
„BOY“ on the 12th Xposed Queer Filmfestival, two times Lolly Award
„rotation“ on FAR OFF Cologne Art Contemporary
„Stadt aus Silber“ in der Ausstellung „RASTER BETON“ D21, Leipzig
„BOY” on NFF Documentary Filmfestival, Zittau und Kurzsüchtig Filmfestival Leipzig, Jury and Audience Award for „BOY“
„Stadt aus Silber”, Ausstellung der gleichnamigen Installation im Aktionsraum Heller als das Licht, Leipzig
„Assoziationsraum Wunderkammer” Zeitgenössische Künste zur Kunst- und Naturalienkammer der Franckeschen Stiftungen
„BOY“ auf dem 58. Internationalen Dokumentarfilm Festival Leipzig
„Fokus Junge Kunst” Ausstellung im Magdeburger Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieber Frauen, Magdeburg
„GegenKino” Festival-Ausstellung in der Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig
„außerplanmäßig, 50 Jahre Halle-Neustadt” Ausstellung in der Burg Galerie Volkspark,Halle/Saale
Preisträgerin Ausstellung des Saalesparkassenpreises, im Kunstforum in Halle/Saale
„Vergiss Berlin, New York, Paris” Ausstellung in der Stuttgarter Akademie
„rotation” auf der 63. Berlinale, FIDMarseille, Gunajuato International Film Festival, LUFF (Lausanne) (Auswahl)
„Transitio Festival, MX 5” EMARE Ausstellung, Centro de Artes Digitales im Estela de la Luz, Mexiko Stadt
„graduiert präsentiert” Graduiertenausstellung der Stipendiaten des Graduiertenstipendium derBurg Giebichenstein, in der Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle/Saale
„wohnungsreisen” Ausstellung in der Silberhöhe in Halle/Saale
„Inverse Geometrie” auf der EMAF, 29. Kasseler DOKfest, werkleitz Sommerkino
Ausstellung der Preisträger der Heitland Foundation im Celler Schloss, Celle
„25+25” Ausstellung im Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
„Istanbul Apartmani” Stipendiaten Ausstellung in Istanbul und Halle/Saale
„lange Nacht des experimentellen Musiktheaters” multimediales Bühnenprojekt der UdK und Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule, Berlin
„El Juego“ Ausstellung im Casa Cultural de la UAEM, Mexiko Stadt
„My home is my Castle” Ausstellung im Tapentenwerk, Leipzig
„100 Jahre Volkspark” Installationsprojekt, Halle/Saale
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