Beatrice Babin is a film editor for documentary and fiction film, visual artist, and professor for film editing at HFF Munich. Her practice moves between the edit suite, the stage, and the live image — working with temporal complexity, improvisation, and the unexpected encounter between bodies and machines. Based in Berlin and Munich.
She studied philosophy and cinema at LMU Munich, with a thesis on Federico Fellini — the clown at the border between life and death. In the 80s and 90s she travelled to New York, Brazil, and Africa, working as a theatre dramaturge and photographer. In the late 90s she found her way into video art.
From the early 2000s she began editing fiction and documentary films. She has edited films with directors including Emily Atef, Volker Koepp, Wael Shawky, Michael Klette, Cordula Kablitz-Post, Wim Wenders, and Markus Imhoof — each collaboration a new adventure, each film a different way of seeing. After editing Imhoof’s Eldorado — Switzerland’s submission for the 91st Academy Awards — she returned to her video-art roots, finding her way back to the live video performance as aka BeBab. She is part of the feminist VJ collective Trial-and-Theresa and part of SUUPERPOSE.
At the heart of her work is a fascination with how images carry memory, drift, and transform — across documentary, live cinema, installation, and the edit. Identity, time, and the blurry border between invention and recollection keep pulling her back.
Since 2019 she has been professor at HFF Munich, holding the Chair of Montage together with Michael Palm. From 2027, they will establish a new degree programme in Film Editing / Montage (Bachelor and Master).
selection of edited films / fiction
DIE AKADEMIE (2024) P: Schiwago, Standing Ovation D: Camilla Guttner
ROHBAU (2023) P: Wood Water Films D: Tuna Kaptan
DER GESANG DES RABEN (2021) P: Zum Goldenen LammD Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt
GEFANGEN – THE HOUSE (2021) , 4K P: unafilm D Elke Hauck
STAY STILL (2018) P Cala Film D Elisa Mishto D Farbfilm
THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF ARANJUEZ (2016) 3D, P Neue Road Movies, Alfama Films D Wim Wenders D Warners / NFP
IN LOVE WITH LOU (2016) , 4K P: Avanti M. D Cordula Kablitz-Post D Senator
SOLNESS (2015) , 4K P, Schiwago Film D Michael Klette D Basis-Film
THE CABARET CRUSADES – THE SECRETS OF KARBALA (2014) D Wael Shawky, MoMa PS1
KILL ME, TUE MOI (2012) , 35 mm P: Niko Film, Wüste Film West D Emily Atef D Farbfilm world sales les films du losange
THE RED ROOM (2010) 35 mmP: Moana Film R Rudolf Thome, D Prometheus
THE STRANGER IN ME (2008) 35mm P: Niko Film D: Emily Atef, Cannes 2008: Semaine International de la critique
selection of edited films / documentaries
EINFACH MACHEN – SHE PUNKS VON 1977 BIS HEUTE (2025) P: Tellfilm, Sugartownfilm
Eldorado (2018) , HD, D Markus Imhoof D Majestic F Berlinale 2018 (competition)
IN SARMATIA (2013), 35mm, P: Vineta Film, D: Volker Koepp, D Salzgeber
WHERE THE CONDORS FLY (2011) HD P: Mira Film, D: Carlos Klein
PINK GANG (2010), HD P: La Sarraz, Tama Film Produktion, D: Enrico Bisi
BERLIN, STETTIN (2009), 35mm, P: Vineta Film, D: Volker Koepp, D Salzgeber
Beatrice Babin is represented as an editor by LuckyPunch
selection of my video / installation / projections
BAUBO – I spy with my little eye – The video installation was part of the group exhibition, curated by SCHOOL OF MACHINES
aaaaaah! 10 year anniversary showcase from SCHOOL OF MACHINES, August 9 – 22 in 2024 at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2 in Berlin Kreuzberg
BAUBO at the darkroom of the PANDORA UNDERGROUND GALERIE – Autumn Selection 23.09 – 13.10.2023
TRANSVERSES Vol. 1 – 3 video poetry playground, regularly in Grüner Salon bring your poem, any language
REMEMBER? Erinnerungen – Collaboration with KUWASH, group exhibition at the Japanisches Palais, Dresden SKD, Speechlessness – The Loud Silence, / Sprachlosigkeit – Das Laute Verstummen, 16.04.2021—01.08.2021
WHEN I’M 68 + BErlin goes underground (1999), 4th Prater Festival – Berlin
ECSTASY 99 (1999) (performance with Videoletten + Super8) in JUBINAL Berlin + Postfuhramt Berlin-Mitte: Und ab die Post 1999!
Hotel Arcadia (1999) DigiArt Preis Frankfurt 1999, Venice Biennale 2000
THE LAST TANGO OF KASSEL (1997) Video installation based on an idea by Moritz Rinke in the Kulturbahnhof, Documenta X, Kassel with Mario Adorf and others.
