Sophie Holzberger



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Publications

You never find what you’re looking for – Doing Intergenerational Feminist Film Work.” With Fiona Berg, in: Handbook of Feminist Media (Studies), edited by Alex Juhasz and Alex Martinis Roe. De Gruyter, forthcoming Spring 2027.

“‘I can eat film.’ Monica Freeman in conversation.” NECSUS Journal, Spring 2026. https://necsus-ejms.org/i-can-eat-film-a-conversation-with-monica-freeman/.

“‘Ich habe nichts zu verlieren.’ Filme aus den Frauenhäusern.” Repérages – Revue de la Cinémathèque suisse, no. 1, Texte zum frühen feministischen Film der Schweiz, Spring 2025. https://reperages-revue.cinematheque.ch/issues/issue-1/ich-habe-nichts-zu-verlieren-filme-aus-den-frauenhausern-filmarbeit-in-frauenhausern/.

“feminist elsewheres. A Making(-)Of Three Festivals in the Making.” With Elena Baumeister, Fiona Berg, Charlotte S. Eitelbach, Arisa Purkpong, Feminist Media Histories 10, nos. 2-3 (Fall 2024): 180–197. https://doi.org/ 10.1525/fmh.2024.10.2-3.180.

“feminist elsewheres: Kuratieren aus dem Archiv feministischer Filmarbeit.” With Elena Baumeister and Fiona Berg, Frauen und Film 72 (Fall 2024): 52–64.

On Edith Marcello. “‘How you live and what you do’ – Exercises in listening.” In the Company of Others: Closeness, Responsibility and Solidarity in Film, edited by Gaby Babić, Sarah Happersberger, and Heide Schlüpmann, 111–17, Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days, 2023.

“Transgressing the Exhibition: Isuma at the 2019 Venice Biennale.” Visual Anthropology Review 37, no. 1 (2021): 211–16, https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12235.

“On Messy Archives: Feminist Media Activism and the 1968 Miss America Beauty Pageant.” Where My Girls At? Writings on Contemporary Feminist Art, edited by Megan Bosence et al., 17–28. Open Publishing LMU, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.74046.


Reviews

Review of Erregende Dokumente: Pornografie und dokumentarische Autorität by Leonie Zilch. MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews 42, no. 4 (2025): 617–19. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/24393.


Film Criticism

“Entwurzelungen. Maria Petschnigs Beautiful and Neat Room und Uncomfortably Comfortable.” kolik-film 45 (2026): 89–93.

“‘Wie hätte irgendwer sonst diese Filme sehen können?’ Zur Programmarbeit der Filmemacherin Monica Freeman. Ein Gespräch.” kolik-film 44 (2025): 13–25.

“Kinophilosophie. Kinopraxis. (Cine-Philosophy. Cine-Practice).” With KinoKon-collective, Kinema Kommunal 3 (2019): 14–16.