Jakob Gross
Germany

Jakob Gross studied visual anthropology, psychology and religious science in Munich, Germany and Chennai, India. Since 2008 he has been producing his own documentary films and has been working as a cinematographer. Besides that Jakob has teached at the film school Macromedia and has written an article on ‘The habitus of the documentary field’ in the volume “Dokumentarfilm. Schulen – Projekte – Konzepte” by Edmund Ballhaus. He has been a long time staff of Documentary Campus Master School and DOK.fest Munich film festival where he co-organized the DOK.Forum Marketplace in the first years. As an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence of the Heidelberg University he also works on new forms of representation in visual anthropology. His film ABDO is Jakobs first feature documentary film and was screened at several renowned film festivals like DOK.fest Munich, Max Ophüls (in competition), Kassel, the festival of the german film and many others.

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