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09/06/2019 | Campus-Meldung

Honorary Award of the 36th Kassel Dokfest for Jan Peters

Since 2015, the Kassel Dokfest has awarded an honorary prize for particularly innovative achievements in film and art. This is aimed at filmmakers who either come from the region or have a special connection with the Kassel Dokfest. This year, the honorary prize of 3,000 euros will be awarded to the renowned artist and filmmaker Jan Peters, professor at the Kassel University of the Arts. This was announced by the Dokfest now. The prize is sponsored by Kassel-based Hübner GmbH & Co. KG.

Jan Peters has presented twelve short films and two feature-length films at the Kassel Dokfest since 1998. Since May 2013, as part of his teaching activities at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, he has presented a film every month at the Filmladen in the presence of the filmmakers, followed by a discussion. As a gifted networker, he has since then also been a driving force for the Hessian University Film Day and encourages his students to participate in the Kassel Dokfest. An outstanding example is the presentation of the film program "documenta 14: 21 reflections," which explored the people behind the works of documenta 14.

"He tirelessly advocates for his students, be it for exchange programs or scholarships, moreover he always has an open ear and a watchful eye for new ideas to bring the "special" film to the screen, not only in Kassel," reads a statement from the Dokfest. The award - as well as the other prizes of the Kassel Dokfest - will be presented at a ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. The laudatory speech will be held by Silke Fischer and Peter Ott.

An installation by Jan Peters will be shown as part of the media art exhibition Monitoring: 30 years, but I still haven't figured out the meaning of life / single-channel installation / daily Nov. 13 - 17 / Südflügel, KulturBahnhof.

For the Kassel Museum Night on 07.09.2019, Jan Peters will hold the Lecture-Performance-Film Collisions together with Marie-Catherine Theiler at the Kunstverein at 17:00, 19:45 and 22:30. At 19:15, 22:00 and 00:45 his film Cern Material Trigger 42 will be shown. Opening hours of the Kunstverein during Museum Night: 17:00 - 01:00