Biografía curricular
“Seraina Winzeler is an archivist and film scholar. After her studies in German literature, Film
Studies and History (Universities of Zurich and Vienna), she completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Archival, Library and Information Sciences (Universities of Bern and Lausanne). Since 2015, she is the head of the Swiss German branch of the Cinémathèque suisse, the Zurich Research and Archiving Center. In Zurich, she is responsible for projects and collaborations. As part of the project on Swiss women film directors, she has published, conducted interviews and curated film programs, including: “Heute wieder Frauenfilme!” (text for the retrospective “Film.Pionierinnen 1971-1981,” Solothurner Filmtage 2021); collaboration on the interview series “Her Story Box” (2021, in collaboration with the Solothurner Filmtage and the Landesmuseum Zürich); retrospective “CH-Body Politics: Feminist Films of the 1970s” (2022, together with Emanuel Signer and in collaboration with the Film Kunst Festival Porny Days and Kino Xenix). In addition to her work at the Cinémathèque suisse, Seraina Winzeler is working on a dissertation on testimonial practices in feminist and queer documentary film since the 1970s at the Seminar for Film Studies at the University of Zurich, where she held a lectureship in the fall semester of 2022.”