Videoartist

Charlotte Jacoby was born and raised in the north of Germany in the late 1980s. The family‘s TV broke when she was three years of age, and her parents decided to raise her without any moving image influences from that moment on. She was therefore inevitably fascinated by the forbidden craft of motion picture.

During her studies of Art Therapy/ Pedagogy, Charlotte started to use the medium of video as part of her own, at that time more performative, artistic work. She completed the practical part of her Bachelor with her video artwork ‚Lektionen‘ (‚Lessons‘), a reflection about the Pick-Up Artist community.

After her Bachelor‘s degree, she decided to continue studying Art and got accepted to the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin. She continued to experiment using her own body in what she calls ‚video performances‘, that she included in spatial installations.

She regards her work as a research about the unutterable, the expression of the body, of inner conflicts that can‘t be verbalised, but can be brought to light by body movement.

In 2017, Charlotte started to work on an Archive of her family‘s history, and began to reflect on how memories can be inscribed into the human body. Thinking about how to bring the research’s results into a form, she decided that film would be the only reasonable medium.

During an Erasmus semester at the Kuva Academy of Arts in Helsinki, Finland, she dived deeper into the different stages of the film production process, culminating in her first film work ‚My Father‘s Letters‘, a poetic essay based on letters her father wrote to his early love.

Charlotte fell in love with the cinematic process that so far has given her the chance to fully realize her ideas and concepts, following a minimalist approach. Coming from the spatial world of arts, she was immediately drawn to the universality of the filmmaking process, offering results that defy space and time restrictions. She has then moved on to become an Editor and Filmmaker.

With the making of her first Animation Short ‚Spinne der Film‘ (Spider- The Movie‘) she seeked to combine her early video performance work, with animated scenes, telling the story of a little spider with anxiety issues.

For Charlotte, the theme of inner conflicts expressed by the human body stands at the core point of her cinematic storytelling, enriched further by the addition of text, animation and sound editing.

Charlotte Jacoby currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Besides her own cinematic work and art studies, she works as a freelance Editor and Colorist and gives Workshops in Video Editing and Color Grading at Kunsthochschule Weißensee.