THE FILMMAKER
Katrin Winkler works in the fields of expanded cinema, critical research, photography and video installation. How history is in-/visible and entangled with the contemporary moment is a recurring theme in her artistic practice. Winkler was a student assistant at the Katutura Community Art Center, Windhoek and the City Varsity, Cape Town. Winkler completed her studies among Allan Sekula, Ashley Hunt, Michelle Dizon and Billy Woodberry in the MFA Program at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Her video-installation towards memory was shown at Berlinale Forum Expanded. Her last film performing monuments was shown at n.b.k Berlin, Kassel DokFest and at the International Film Festival in Dhaka. Since 2019 she has been part of BPA-Berlin Program for Artists. Her works are shown in the context of international art exhibitions and at film festivals.

THE RESIDENCY
Traces is a video and research project Winkler worked on in  Beirut grappling with ruptures, failures and gaps in histories using filmmaking as a place of encounter to reconsider what is visible or not. The starting point is archival research and the documentation of personal narratives out of women’s perspectives in Lebanon in relation to traces of colonialism in the city in order to cinematically negotiate the field of tension between lived experiences and public narratives. The division and (dis-) possession of land in the context of French colonialism (1923−1946) in Lebanon and recent wars are still visible in Beirut’s cityscape and its surrounding landscapes. To find ways of activating monuments in collaboration and develop cinematic strategies that allow to reflect on the monumentalization of history is an integral part of Traces.