Doreen
Ignaszewski
Between image, sound and traces of memory.
I was born in 1977 in Königs Wusterhausen (in what was then the GDR) and grew up between Brandenburg and Berlin. After completing my A-levels, I trained as a photographer at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1997 to 2000. From 2003 to 2010 I studied editing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf (today: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf), graduating as a qualified film editor with distinction.
In my diploma thesis “Die Sprache der inneren Berührung” (The Language of Inner Touch) I explored the essence of film editing, its playful possibilities and its capacity to create connections, shape rhythm and give rise to inner movement and encounter. My graduation film “My Globe is broken in Rwanda” was awarded Best Documentary at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in 2010.
Since 2010 I have worked freelance as a film editor on documentaries, feature films and concert films, also across national and linguistic borders. The resulting films have been shown and awarded at, among others, the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Film editing, photography and writing characterise my work today.
I live and work in Berlin.
Where the light is different.
The Cyclades · Attica · Peloponnese
For almost thirty years I have travelled to Greece and keep returning, each time a little more familiar and yet surprised anew. I am interested in the people, the language, the music and a different relationship with light, time and memory.
From this long-standing connection, “Epistoli” is currently taking shape: an international, multi-part artistic project about voice, sea, memory, language, loss and longing. It has its origins in an encounter on a Greek island that has never let go of me and still shapes my life to this day.
The essential at the right moment.
I was trained in analogue photography and worked with 35mm, medium-format and large-format cameras. That experience shapes my eye and my way of working to this day. In my work as a photographer, what matters to me is undivided attention at the right moment – precision, patience and mutual trust. I take my time, don't impose myself and wait until something emerges that cannot be forced.
I am drawn to faces, bodies, places and details that reveal more than surface beauty. What is decisive for me is the moment in which bearing, character and the particular become visible.
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The language of connection.
Working with moving image and sound fascinates me anew with every project. I listen closely, observe attentively and also perceive what does not show itself immediately. I am interested in how individual moments connect with one another, and how tension or memory can arise between them.
For me, editing means engaging with the material and the people with patience, attention and trust: image by image, sound by sound. In doing so I follow what the material demands, without relinquishing my own perception.
Selected works, each with its own story, rhythm and emotional architecture.
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I look forward to new and inspiring projects.
For enquiries regarding film editing, photography, dramaturgical consultation and artistic collaborations, I am happy to be contacted.