Visitors 2018

Sarah Schipschack is a film curator, programmer, and producer. During the last 15 years Schipschack has established several initiatives to produce and present film, art house films, experimental film - Artists' Moving Image. In 2003, she established Filmgalerie Alpha60, an archive for film and film history. In 2006, she initiated the screening series Reihe Experiementalfilm at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig. Another project initiated by Schipschack, together with Norwegian curator and writer Leif Magne Tangen, is Vitakuben, a film production company based in Leipzig, focusing on film, mostly artists moving image, but also arthouse films. The latest initiative, Polar Film Lab, an analog film lab in Tromsø, was established in 2016 together with Lithuanian filmmaker and artist Emilija Skarnulyte. Schipschack has extensive experience as a film programmer and film curator. She has worked in the independent arthouse cinema Kinobar Prager Frühling in Leipzig. She was head of programming for her video store/archive Filmgalerie Alpha60, and as curator for Reihe Experimentalfilm, she put together more than 50 programmes, including more than 400 films and over 200 film makers and artists. In the years 2017–18 Schipschack is Film Curator in Residence and in charge of building up a screening program for artists run initiative Kurant in Tromsø. In October 2017 she was guest curator for the second edition of AMIFF-Artist Moving Image and Film Festival in Harstad, Norway where she put together a mini-retrospective of renowned artist Lene Berg, as well as commissioning an ambitious multi-screen work by artist Ørjan Amundsen. Schipschack teaches an Artists' Moving Image course at the Norland Film- og Kunstfagskole, Kabelvåg, Norway.