Heiko Volkmer
Fellow
Since 2014, Heiko Volkmer has been working as a freelance filmmaker in Hamburg. Already during his film studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, he was engaged with the conditions and motivations of human action. Beyond that, his documentary film projects address current societal issues, social injustices, ecological challenges and political activism. Here, Philosophical, psychological, sociological as well as leftist perspectives, repeatedly play a significant role.
Heiko Volkmer is a co-founder of the independent film production company splitterfilm and is involved as a co-producer and dramaturgical consultant in various film projects. Additionally, he works as a producer, director, cinematographer and editor. He is also a co-initiator of worksaboutcontact, an artist network for commercial film productions.
Most recently, Heiko Volkmer has worked with the activists of Iuventa Crew as well as with the Institute for Social Research Frankfurt and the City Science Lab Hamburg.
- 2019 Co-Founding of artist network for commercial film productions worksaboutcontact
- 2014- Independent producer/ director/ cameraman/ editor
- 2014 Co-Founding of independent production company splitterfilm
- 2009-2010 Film studies at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA)
- 2006-2014 Visual communication (film) studies at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK)
- 2005-2006 European ethnology studies at Universität Hamburg
- Conditions and motivations of human action
- Perception of ecological crises
- Societal potential for implementing the sustainability transformation
- Political activism
- Film-experimental potentials in discourse participation, representation and inspiration
- Science communication
- Criminalization of flight and refugee aid
- Social justice, externalization, solidarity and empathy
- Leftist theory, socialist ideas and alienation
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- 2015 "Mein Erkenntnisweg - Expedition in die Abgründe der Entfremdung", Materialverlag
- 2014 Film Talent Award of Hamburgische Kulturstiftung