I am a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer. A graduate of the University of Television and Film Munich, I have been making films since 2007 and teaching filmmaking since 2012. In my documentary film work, my focus is on projects about art and artists, as well as on themes of belonging. In my teaching I have worked with groups of diverse ages, ranging from teenagers to older adults, with an emphasis on documentary filmmaking as empowerment for queer and refugee youth. 

In addition to my work as a filmmaker, I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University in Montreal/Tioh'tà:ke. In my research I use my film practice for research-creation about fatness as method in dance and movement art and to develop frameworks for a fat screendance. I am an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and a member of the Textiles & Materiality research cluster at the Milieux Institute. My academic advisors are MJ Thompson, PhD, Nadia Myre, and Stefanie Snider, PhD.

My doctoral research investigates the performance and representation of fatness in dance and movement art, the potentials of fatness in these art forms, and how they may be transported by and contribute to the artistic vocabulary of a fat screendance. My work is rooted in the conviction that fatness has the potential to question and challenge categories and structures – categories of knowledge in dance and film, but also structures implicated in the representation, valuation oppression of bodies more broadly – while offering new visions of materiality and method to contemporary screendance. 

Using documentary film, conversations, and movement research, I work with fat performers to highlight the knowledge that their respective practices can offer, as well as the knowledge that emerges when these practices are brought into conversation with my own work in film, particularly with handheld cinematography as improvised choreography.