CV
Therese Henningsen
b. 1987 in Aarhus, Denmark
lives and works in London
Films
All These Summers, 2025, 66 mins (nominated for the New Vision Award CPH DOX 2025)
After Time, 2023, 34 mins
Baby Jesus, 2023, 15 mins, in collaboration with Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Slow Delay, 2018, 16 mins
Maintenancer, 2018, 13 mins, in collaboration with Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Sublet, 2017, 3 mins, in collaboration with Aki Ilomäki
Selected Screenings and Exhibitions
2025 Maintenancer, The Queen’s Breasts Carved from Wood, CCA Kronika, Bytom
2025 After Time, Carousel, The Wicker Arms, Staffordshire St. Gallery, London
2025 Cittipunkt x Weathergirl, Cittipunkt Berlin and Avalon Café London
2025 All These Summers, UK Premiere, Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend, Rio Cinema, London
2025 All These Summers, World Premiere, CPH DOX, Copenhagen
2025 After Time and Baby Jesus, Weathergirl, curated by Freya Finn Field-Donovan and Bronte Dow, Avalon Café, London
2024 Baby Jesus and Maintenancer, Kiosk, KASK Cinema, Ghent
2024 Baby Jesus, Purge launch, St George in the East, London
2024 Baby Jesus, Loop Art Fair, Barcelona
2024 After Time, Close Up Film Centre, London
2024 After Time, The Lock-In, Monokino, KAAP, Oostende
2024 After Time, Artists and the City, The Barbican Cinema, London
2024 After Time, At Home in Hackney, Hackney Picturehouse, London
2024 Sublet, Weathergirl, Pelican House, London
2023 Slow Delay, Casual Encounters programmed by Denna Cartamkhoob, LUX, London
2023 Maintenancer, In the Darkness Bind Them, HFKD Cinema, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
2023 Baby Jesus, Missionary, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Éduoard Montassut, Paris
2023 Baby Jesus, Missionary, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Company Gallery, New York
2022 Slow Delay, Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2022 Maintenancer, The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale, Venice
2021 Maintenancer, online screening, response by and Q&A with Mandy Merck, Plattform, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2021 Maintenancer, online screening and talk, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2021 Maintenancer, online screening, Mascara Film Club, London
2021 Slow Delay, online film programme curated by Andrea Luka Zimmerman for Cryptofiction, London
2019 Maintenancer, Welcome to End-Used City, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2019 Maintenancer, Are you difficult to work with? Sidsel Meineche Hansen, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2019 Maintenancer, Bodies of Work, curated by Benison Kilby, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2018 Maintenancer, Real Doll Theatre by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, KW, Berlin
2018 Slow Delay, The Liberated Film Club, curated by Stanley Schtinter, Close Up Film Centre, London
2018 Slow Delay, Artists’ Short Film Programme, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable
2018 Slow Delay, Artists’ film programme curated by Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2018 Slow Delay, Shitty Heartbreaker, Adam Christensen, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2018 Sublet and Slow Delay, I Met Myself in the Kitchen, Oslo House, London
2018 Sublet, Open Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Selected Talks and Presentations
2025 The Lock-In Monograph and After Time (dvd) launch, Barbican Cinema, London
2025 Introduction to Les Rendezvous d’Anna by Chantal Akerman, programmed by A Nos Amour, Close Up Film Centre, London
2023 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, talk and conversation, with Lauren Elkin, Xiaolo Guo, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Barbican Library, London
2023 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and screening, SIC SoundImageCulture, Projection Room, Brussels
2023 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and screening, with Jon Bang Carlsen and Ruth Beckermann, Terrassen, Cinemateket, Copenhagen
2022 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and responses to Strangers by Toni Morrison, with Umama Hamido, Andrea Luka Zimmerman,
Ruth Beckermann and Adam Christensen, Open City Documentary Festival, London
2021 Invitations, four conversations for Technecast, co-organised with Mark Aerial Waller, Judah Attille and Astrid Korporaal
Publications and Texts
2025 After Time (dvd) and edited conversation with Anne Billson and Anouk de Clercq, in The Lock-In, artist’s monograph by Stanley Schtinter, Tamara Press
2024 Rehearsal for Life, a conversation with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson on the making of Here for Life,
Selected films by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Second Run DVD
2022 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, interdisciplinary anthology co-edited with Juliette Joffé, published by Prototype Publishing
2020 Otherwise: Notes on being perenially in-between, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Another Gaze 04
2015 How to work together, Sharna Pax, commissioned by How to work together (Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire)
Curation
Terrassen, www.terrassen.bio
Sharna Pax, www.sharnapax.org
2024 Artists in Residence: London, Art Making, Space and Everyday Life, film season, Barbican Centre, in collaboration with Matthew Harle and Matthew Barrington
2024 Two Films from West Jutland, Jon Bang Carlsen and Carl Th. Dreyer, film programme curated for Sunset Cinema, Country Town, Lemvig
2023 The Social Life of Film, gathering for nomadic film collectives in Europe, organised by Terrassen (Copenhagen) and PRISMS (Oslo)
2022 Acts of Affection, seven films by seven filmmakers, online programme curated for Cryptofiction: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Viet Vu, Adam Christensen, Juliette Joffé,
Mary Jimenez Freeman Morris, Xiaolu Guo, and Pierre Creton
2018 Film programme curated for Shitty Heartbreaker, Adam Christensen, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art
2017 Programmer, film club Baroque Home Theatre, Copenhagen
Teaching
2022-present Mentor and senior tutor, MA Docfiction and MA Documentary and Ethnographic Film, UCL Anthropology Department
2023-present Mentor MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins
2020-2022 Editing tutor, MA Documentary and Ethnographic Film and MA Docfiction, UCL Anthropology Department
2020-2021 Course tutor, Critical Theory and Textual Analysis, BA Media Arts, Royal Holloway University
2021-present Course tutor, Documentary as Encounter, Online Short Course, Open City Documentary School
2017-present Moderator at DOX:ACADEMY, Hybrid class, CPH DOX
2012-14 Guest lecturer Visual Anthropology with Emma Tarlo and Massimiliano Mollona
Education
2019-2025 PhD Media Arts, Royal Holloway University, London, UK
2012-2014: MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2008-2011: BA Anthropology & Media, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Grants/Awards
2025 Nominated for the New Vision Award CPH DOX
2024 Necessity Development Grant
2023 Necessity Production Support
2021 Danish Arts Foundation Production Grant
2019 Techné DTP Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Grant
2016 The Danish Institute in Athens, residency grant
2012 Arts and Humanities Research Council Professional Preparation Grant
2011 Professor Brian Morris Prize, Goldsmiths University
Collaboration
2024 Wayfaring Stranger, contributor, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman
2019 Here for Life, associate director and co-devisor, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson
2015 Estate A Reverie, collaborator, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman