Vera Herr

Born in 1988 in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
Lives and works in Berlin (Germany)

Vera Herr is a German filmmaker and video artist. Currently, she works as a freelance editor and artist in Berlin and Brussels. Herr works at the intersection of experimental, documentary and fictional films, presented as single screens or shown in the context of an installation. Her films have been shown internationally at film festivals, including EMAF, European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, and KuFF 'Kumu Art Film Festival' in Tallin. She obtained her M.A. in Audio­Visual Arts at the Sint­Lukas School of Arts in Brussels. Her B.A. graduation project “Swimming Nude” won the Department Prize and got an honourable mention at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (NL) in 2013. In 2011, she lived and studied for one year in Jerusalem at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

Of her work on view at KB17, Vera Herr sates: “The film director accompanies the person in front of the camera through the forgotten corridors of their personality. The ‘Scream Test’ reveals a pre­historic instinct and innate experience through the performer's body. The scream is a personal release: it actualizes the presence of aggression, touching upon the dimension of collective fear. Its high pitch abruptly interrupts the routine course of daily life. Provoking instant and total mental absorption, the scream paradoxically brings us back to reality, to the current time of now, as if a needle stung the collective body, exposing the limits of personal space and the shared sense of togetherness. What happens when the chroma key green­screen meets the psychotherapy session?”