team
The 7th edition of hungry eyes festival is organized by an eight-member team of freelance artists and curators from Giessen, Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna. The organizing team sees itself as a collective that works together in a grassroots democratic way and provides for a fluid distribution of work according to personal interests and capacities instead of insisting on a strict division of tasks. It tries to create structures that enable them and the invited artists to work together under appropriate and mutually enriching conditions. The aim is not to reproduce precarious working structures for either the organizers or the artists of the festival.
Within the team, we count the hours worked and pay ourselves accordingly. In this way, we want to avoid that organizational work such as taking minutes, bookkeeping, etc. is paid less than content-related work such as curation or planning of the mediation program. We are aware that even this method of payment cannot guarantee absolute fairness, but this approach is the one that has proven to be the most loyal and undisputed in our discussions.
Generally we are guided by the lower-fee-limit (Honoraruntergrenze) published by Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste.
Amélie Haller
Amélie Haller (she/her) works as a freelance artist, as well as curator of the hungry eyes festival, and as a performer in the independent scene in Vienna, Frankfurt, and Gießen. Her artistic works range from performance to film and own texts. They reveal a tender fondness for quotations and animals, to which she repeatedly attributes an almost inexhaustible power to tell stories. Together with Maren Ada Küpper, she also produces projects in the independent scene as take the money and run GbR.
Maren Ada Küpper
Maren Ada Küpper (she/her) develops performances, works for the exhibition space and texts. She works alone and with others in artistic and scientific formats on fantasy and science fiction, Antarctica and writing as a medium on stage. Maren studied Applied Theater Studies in Gießen and Bergen.
Nikolas Stäudte
Nikolas Stäudte (no pronouns) studied Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and has since worked freelance in the cultural sector - both on stage as a performer with She She Pop, among others, and in assistant positions for various film and theater makers such as Caroline Creutzburg. Since October, Nikolas is studying in the Master of Film Culture at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Elena Giffel
Elena Giffel (she/her) studied Philosophy in Würzburg and completed a Bachelor's degree in Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. She works as a freelance artist, director, costume designer and author. She has been a co-organizer and curator of the hungry eyes festival since 2016.
Eva Streit
Eva Streit (she/her) works as an interdisciplinary artist and producer in the field of performing arts. She completed her training as a contemporary stage dancer at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg and her BA in Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, where she is currently also completing her Master's degree. In her work she is interested in the body in its relationship to its environment, different forms of the gaze and installative and sculptural settings within performances.
Anne Mahlow
Anne Mahlow (she/her) is a curator, dramaturge and artist. Solo and in various collective contexts (e.g. imaginary company) she realizes performances, installations and audio walks, which have already been shown at Mousonturm Frankfurt, FFT Düsseldorf and Ruhrtriennale, among others. From 2017 - 2020 Anne Mahlow was dramaturge at the Ruhrtriennale, since 2021 she has been part of the artistic direction of the FAVORITEN festival for the 2022 and 2024 editions.
the curation process
Sophia Scherer
Sophia Scherer (she/her) studied Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and works as a freelancer in performance productions and in various festival contexts in the curatorial, conceptual and organizational fields. She currently lives in Leipzig and studies time-based art at the BURG Giebichenstein in Halle.
Anna Maria Pahlke
Anna Maria Pahlke (she/her) is studying for a Master's degree in Applied Theater Studies in Giessen. She works as a freelance film and radio play maker. Productions have been shown and heard at the Seriale Gießen, the Bundesfestival Junge Regie St. Ingbert, the Berlin Radio Play Festival and the ORF Radio Play Gala. She is also a freelance assistant director at Hessischer Rundfunk and a team member of Radio Funkalow at the Theater Natur Festival in Benneckenstein.
The hungry eyes festival focuses on the intersection between film and other art forms. There are no specific thematic guidelines in the Open Call. We are interested in and focus on the handling of the medium of film, the experimental combination with other media and the content-related, historical or aesthetic reference to film in artistic works.
We curate the program collectively. In concrete terms, this means that all submissions are viewed by several team members and we then put together a program in a joint exchange process with several rounds of discussion. At the end of the selection process, all members of the hungry eyes festival should be convinced by our program.
When deciding which works to show, we focus on content and aesthetic aspects, an experimental approach to the medium film, as well as the overall composition of the works as a program. Thus, even during the basic selection process, attention is paid to the interaction of the works and to thematic arcs and references in regards to aesthetics or content which arise between the individual works.
Wir achten bei den Bewerbungen auf Vollständigkeit und Einhaltung der räumlichen und zeitlichen Vorgaben. Auch sind wir natürlich an unseren Kosten- und Finanzierungsplan gebunden, mit den uns zur Verfügung stehenden, begrenzten finanziellen Mitteln. Für Fragen und Anregungen zum Auswahlprozess sind wir jederzeit dankbar.
We distinctly position ourselves against any discriminatory content with regard to origin, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, age or ability. Submissions with discriminatory content or statements will not be accepted, neither will solely promotional films.
