ABOUT

SASKIA HEYDEN

In 2005 I graduated from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester with a degree in Ethnographic Documentary. In 2007 I completed the Cultural Studies programme at the European University Viadrina with a work on “Sensory Knowledge in the Field and Evocative Forms of Knowledge Construction” as well as further exploring the audio-visual arts and documentary filmmaking with projects based in Berlin's transgender scene. My documentary “Risk, Stretch, or Die” (60 Min. 2007) has been presented within the programme “New German Cinema” in Berlin. Since 2008 I am working with Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky as his assistant. Besides, I am part in further film productions, of which the fiction feature “My Joy” by Sergei Loznitsa has been selected for the Official Competition of the Cannes Filmfestival 2010.