Sarah is one of the co-directors of the international dance film festival POOL in Berlin. She is especially interested in the various ways of interweaving cinematic and physical movement. Additionally, she has been invited as a film programmer, lecturer, and jury member for several international dance film festivals and exhibitions. Besides Sarah is realizing own art projects.
Sarah Möller studied media culture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Université Lumière Lyon II and the University of Potsdam.
Curated Film Programs with POOL
2021
Film contribution for the Athens Video Dance Project, Greece
Two film programs for a Videodance Weekend at New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Russia
Film selection for Dance on Screen Graz, Austria
2020
Film selection for the Athens Video Dance Project, Athens, Greece
POOL 20 – Spring Edition
Selected dance films online at dock11-berlin.de
2019
Film program for a dance film week at Cinema Akil,
in Cooperation with the Goethe-Institut of Gulf-Region
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Film program for Dance Days Chania – Video Dance
Chania, Greece
Dances with Camera – Germany Now – Film program for the short film festival Short Waves
Poznan, Poland
Selected films for the special program Woman in Action of the Athens Video Dance Project
Athens, Greece
2018
Film program for the project Kinotanz of the National Center for Contemporary Arts Ekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg, Russia
Dance and Film in New York 1960-90, Salon Event at the studio of Douglas Dunn as part of the dance festival La MaMa Moves!
New York, USA
Film program for the dance film festival Loikka
Helsinki, Finland
2017
Film selection for the special exhibition space Tanz of the Central Library of Berlin (ZLB)
Berlin, Germany
Film program for the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival
Bucharest, Romania
2016
Film selection for the dance film festival Tanzrauschen
Wuppertal, Germany
2015
Film Program for the Romanian Architecture Annual
Bucharest, Romania
Film program for the festival SinemaDansAnkara in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut
Ankara, Turkey
2013
Film Program for the Festival de Danca
Florianopolis, Brasil
Lectures, Workshops and Teaching
2021
Dance and Film – beautiful liaisons from early cinema until today, Cinema Dance.Lab, Minsk, BLR
(online), no state funding, 25.12.2021
Arranging Movement in Film – The Cinematic Body, Workshop as part of the Athens Video Dance Project, online, 18.12.2021
Lecture and Workshop at New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre St. Petersburg as part of a Videodance Weekend, Title of the lecture: Zwischen Sichtbarkeit und Virtualität – Ornamente, Muster und Linien in vier Filmen der New Yorker Tanz-, Performance- und Filmavantgarde der 70er Jahre, 22.10.20121
Online Morning Class Arranging Movement in Film
April & June 2021, online
Dance for Camera – Workshop at Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) in cooperation with Maja Zimmerlin, Summer term 2021
Arranging Movement in Film – Filmchoreografische Verfahren, Course at Free University of Berlin, Institute of Theater Studies, Summer term 2021
2020
Workshop Arranging Movement in Film – Workshop on Filmchoreography
October & December 2020 at EDEN*****, Berlin
2018
Workshop Film-choreographic Compositions at the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Ekaterinburg, Russia
2017
Lecture within the scope of the exhibition On Site Impromptus: Dance and Moving Images in Daily Space at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Dance and Film in New York, 1960-80, lecture at the MA study program Media Spaces, BTK – Hochschule für Gestaltung, Berlin
Film-choreographic Arrangements, lecture within the scope of a Video Dance Workshop at DOCK 11, Berlin
Jury activity
2019
Jury member for the festival Dance on Screen, Graz, Austria
Jury member for the festival Short Waves, Poznan, Polen
2017
Jury member for the festival Danc Bestias Danzantes, Chile
2015
Jury member for theBucharest International Dance Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Since 2015
Jury member of POOL – INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival BERLIN, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany
Exhibitions
2022
Schaukasten Berlin: Parisian Basement, Solo Exhibition
2021
Schaukasten Berlin: Eine freundliche Ausstellung, Group Exhibition
2018
Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt: Materealität – über Transformationen des Greifbaren, Group Exhibition
2014
Academy of the Arts, Berlin: Vertigo of Reality, Group Exhibition