Sirko Knüpfer

Sirko Knüpfer studied at the art academies of Halle/Saale, Glasgow and Karlsruhe. With the artist collective "HENRY VIII's WIVES" he was active in the international art context from 1997 to 2014. The film documentary work for the company Sasha Waltz & Guests directs his focus to contemporary dance and sparks interest in its medial reflection. With the choreographer Paula E. Paul, he founded "KOMBINAT kombiniert Tanz und Film UG" in Potsdam in 2009. The collective develops and produces filmic works, performative formats and cross-genre dance theatre projects.

From 2011 to 2014 he taught in the Time-Based Arts department at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/Saale, and since 2017 at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in the montage department.

TEACHING SUBJECTS

• Montage in Context / Special Fields of Montage / Montage Forum

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Nonverbal expressions in media

FILMS (selection)

Kunstpause, 2021 _ KOMBINAT* poetic documentary about eight theatres in lockdown

The Blade Runner Phenomenon, 2020 _ directed by Boris Hars-Tschachotin (arte documentary)

Lost in Formation, 2019 _ KOMBINAT* dance theatre behind a media veil

ÜBER_DRUCK, 2017 _ KOMBINAT* Short film series in an installation object run by compressed air

VOYAGE-VOYAGE, 2015 _ KOMBINAT* Dance film in 1-minute format (60secondsdance Winner of Norway 2016 and Choreographic Captures Award 2015).

GRAND JETÉ, 2014 _ KOMBINAT* Vertical dance theatre combined with documentary film.

Choreographic images in the Field _ KOMBINAT* 4-channel film installation

Hackney Lullabies, 2010 _ Director: Kyoko Miake (BTA Award Berlinale 2010 / nominated for FILMplus FörderpreisSchnitt2012)

Sergej in the Urn, 2010 _ directed by Boris Hars-Tschachotin (BLM Film Award DOK.Fest Munich 2010)

*In the collective KOMBINAT combines dance and film, choreographer Paula E. Paul and media artist Sirko Knüpfer share production and direction. Sirko Knüpfer takes over the montage of the filmic parts of the joint works.