links: Alisa Berger, mitte: Bethan Hughes, rechts: Arda Çiltepe
Für das Wintersemester 2026&27 freuen wir uns, unsere vier Gastdozent*innen für das Programm „Time Based Media“ begrüßen zu dürfen, Alisa Berger, Bethan Hughes und Arda Çiltepe.
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Alisa Berger was born in 1987 in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, and raised in Lviv, Ukraine. She studied film and fine arts at the Academy of Media Art Cologne (KHM) and at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá. With her diploma film and fiction feature debut, ‘The Astronauts‘ Bodies’, she was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and for the FIRST STEPS Award of the Deutsche Filmakademie. She was also the recipient of the Best Film Award for New Directors at Int. Film Festival Uruguay and the Screenplay Award of H.W. Geißendörfer.
Alisa Berger creates films and installations, often in a collaborative process, that are accompanied, created, changed or destroyed within performative interventions. She has had solo exhibitions at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul), HMKV (Dortmund), or PATARA Gallery (Tbilisi) and participated in many group shows like the Museum Biennale (Krasnoyarsk), Kindl – Center for Contemporary Art (Berlin), KAI 10, Arthena Foundation (Düsseldorf), MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow) or the BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Center (Bangkok).
Since 2011 she has collaborated with Lena Ditte Nissen under the name bergernissen. She is co-founder of the international film production company FORTIS FEM FILM, which dedicates its work to increasing the visibility of women and their stories in film. Additionally, Berger works in sound performance and hosts a monthly show on dublab.de as a DJ.
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Bethan Hughes is an artist and researcher based in Berlin whose practice spans video, sound, installation and writing. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including LABoral (Gijón), Gropius Bau (Berlin), nGbK (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), Tselinny Temporary (Almaty), Kunstpavillon Innsbruck and the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück). Her first monograph, Elastic Continuum, was published by K. Verlag in 2025. She was a European Media Art Platform Fellow in 2023 and undertook a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2025/26.
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Born in Istanbul and based in Hamburg, Arda Çiltepe is a director and producer. After studying Economics at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, he moved to Hamburg to pursue an MFA in Film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). His short film Black Sun won the Pardino d’oro for Best International Short Film at Locarno Film Festival in 2019 and Best Short Film at Istanbul Film Festival in 2020. As a producer, his credits include Gürcan Keltek’s Meteors (Locarno, Filmmakers of the Present 2017) and New Dawn Fades (Locarno Main Competition 2024), and Burak Çevik’s The Pillar of Salt (Berlinale Forum 2018). He is the co-founder of Vigo Film in Turkey and Kelek Film in Germany, where he co-produced Jacqueline Lentzou’s A Day in the Life of Jo (Best Director, Orizzonti, Venice 2026) and Jelena Maksimović’s Until the Day Ends (Orizzonti, Venice 2026). He is a member of the European Film Academy and serves as an expert for Eurimages.“