Philip Widmann is a German filmmaker born in 1980 in West Berlin. He studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg and Visual Communications at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Since 2009, he has been a member of the independent film laboratory LaborBerlin.
His work moves between documentary cinema and visual art, and has been presented internationally at major festivals and institutions, including Berlin International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, FID Marseille, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel, as well as art venues such as the Wexner Center for the Arts and the WRO Media Art Biennale. His practice often explores themes of memory, history and transnational identity through formally experimental approaches.
Widmann has also participated in several international residencies, including Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2014, and Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, the Srishti Institute in Bangalore and the Goethe Institut in 2015.
His filmography includes A House in Ninh Hoa, which premiered at Visions du Réel in 2016, alongside earlier works such as Szenario, The Photographer’s Wife and Destination Finale, all of which have been screened and awarded at international film festivals.
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