Christine Moderbacher

Christine Moderbacher is a visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker (MA in visual anthropology/documentary film at the University of Manchester). She completed her PhD at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and is currently part of the Max Planck Research Group “Alpine Histories of Global Change: Time, Self, and the Other in the German-Speaking Alpine Region” in Halle, Germany. Her documentary films A Letter to Mohamed (SIC/CVB Brussels) and Red Earth White Snow (Pinanona Production Vienna) have been shown at international film festivals and have received a number of prizes.

www.christinemoderbacher.com

Scholarships and Prices:
2020 Artist in Residence Grant in Paliano, IT, Lower Austria Federal Chancellery
2020 Best Film at the Vizantrop Festival (Red Earth White Snow), Belgrade, SRB
2017 Sigfried Ludwig-Fonds for Postgraduate Research abroad
2015 Young Artist Award, Category: Artfilm (‘A Letter to Mohamed’) from the Lower Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture
2015 Development Trust research scholarship/ University of Aberdeen
2014 Juryprice: Best Film (A Letter to Mohamed), Sorrento Film Festival
2014 Young Artist Scholarship for Innovative Films from the Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture
2013 E.R.C (European Research Council) Advanced Grant
2011 Postgraduate Fellowship Programme, European Institutes for Advanced Study

Filmography (Selection):
Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau / The world is blue at its edges (2021)
Moving ants on a painted tree (2020)
Rote Erde Weisser Schnee / Red earth white snow (2018)
Lettre á Mohamed / A Letter to Mohamed, (2013)
Männer in Orange / Men at work (2010)
Harraga (2009)