Filmmaker and political scientist whose work uses everyday devices, archives and media archaeology to link intimate and social memory at the same time she explores different narrative formats. She holds a degree from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica and her multifaceted career arc combines cinema, writing and teaching. For more than fifteen years—and in parallel with her arts trajectory—she has been a docent and collaborator at many Mexico and Latin America AV training spaces, with a focus on gender, community-based issues and experimental pedagogies. Burkhard has received a number of recognitions, notably her Gucci scholarship and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts fellowship. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de México who lives and works in Mexico City. 

h’iketeia, 2024
Christiane Burkhard
71 min.

Tempelhof in Berlin, Elliniko in Athens, and exNAICM in Texcoco are airports in the process of undoing, abandonment, or recovery–-suspended in time by financial speculation, the relocation of refugees, or the creation of human and environmental “sanctuaries.” Remnants, vestiges, and voices remain in all three of these spaces. h’ ι κ ε T ε i α is a lyric essay on the symbolic and material layers of these three geographies—all with a link to the director’s personal story. The dance of a mythological Ariadne punctuates warped audiovisuals, and the film puts human endeavors and geology in perspective while considering ways of inhabiting contemporary ruins to restore land ties and promote the right to shelter.