Sarah Schipschack is a film curator, programmer, and producer, based in Tromsø, Norway. During the last 20 years Schipschack has established several initiatives to produce and present moving images: art house films, experimental film – Artists’ Moving Image. In 2003, she established Filmgalerie Alpha60, an archive for film and film history. In 2006, she initiated the screening series Reihe Experimentalfilm at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig. (both Alpha60 and RE ran until 2015 in Leipzig, Germany). Another project initiated by Schipschack, together with curator Leif Magne Tangen, is vitakuben, a film production company based in Leipzig, Germany focusing on artists moving images, but also arthouse films.
In the years 2017-2019 Schipschack was invited as film curator in residence and in charge of building up a moving images program for artists run initiative Kurant. In 2017 she was guest curator for the second edition of AMIFF – Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival in Harstad, Norway where she put together a mini-retrospective of renown female artists Lene Berg, as well as commissioning multi-screen work by artist Ørjan Amundsen. Schipschack teached an Artists' Moving Image course at the Nordland Film- og kunstfagskole, Kabelvåg, Norway. In 2018 the f/stop festival in Leipzig invited her to curate a screening program and she was 2019 with a residency program from OCA for a month in Mumbai to curate an exhibition in Mumbai Art Room.
Her latest initiatives are, Polar Film Lab, an analogue film lab in Tromsø, was established in 2016 and [KINOBOX] founded in 2020, a dedicated micro-cinema to present artists’ moving images in Tromsø. She currently is associated producer with Ice-9 in Tromsø working with artist films.
