Benjamin Heisenberg

Born in 1974 in Tübingen. Director, author, visual artist. Studies: Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; Film directing at Munich School for Television and Film. Since 2005 lecturer and mentor at various film and art schools. Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the Filmmagazine „Revolver“, together with S. Kutzli and C. Hochhäusler. His feature films, videos, painitngs and Instalations have been exhibited at Exhibitions and Festivals at ZKM Karlsruhe, Haus der Kunst München; at the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival; at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; at the Videonale Bonn; at MoMA, New York; art fair berlin; Vienna art week and permanently at NS-Dokumentationszentrum (Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism), Munich. Awards (Selection): Major Festival Awards at Paris, Geneva, Anger, Barcelona, Calgary, Dublin, First Steps Award as well as the Austrian Film Award.

Movies (selection): Es zogen einst (Video, 1995), Terremoto (Short Film, 1996), Hastewas, Bistewas (Video, 1997), Quiet again (Short Film, 1998), The Bomb King (Video, 2001), The Opportunity (Short Film, 2004), Meier, Müller, Schmidt I-VI (Video, 2004–2016), Sleeper (2005 feature film), The Robber (2010 feature film) , ER (video, together with Clemens Krauss, 2013), Superegos (2014 feature film). The Invisible Third (Video, 2015), Opfer (Video, 2016), Display (Video 2017), Dial M for Me (Video 2018), On Faith (2018), Twelve Angry Men (installation with videos and artifacts at art berlin and Vienna art week 2018).