Hello, my name is Boris Dörning. I´m a filmmaker, motion designer and photographer.
My photography is interested in urban traces, transition zones, social densities and that which is inconspicuous. At the same time, I shift my interest from mere stocktaking to memory and layering - this makes my vocabulary of motifs quiet and melancholy.
My collages, on the other hand, break up the suggested coherence of these documents: they are not decorative montages, but interventions that treat the image as material - cutting, superimposing, shifting. In doing so, the medium itself is questioned: What is photographic evidence? How stable is meaning when I fragment and rearrange the image?
In motion design, I transfer my image sensibility into digital space. I develop visual solutions for clients that make digital communication clearer, livelier and more functional.
My work is based on an overarching interest in treating visual material as a malleable, analyzable medium and re-reading it as a trace, fragment and possibility.
Currently employed at denkwerk as Motion Designer.
Agencies & production companies I´ve worked for
denkwerk, Scholz&Volkmer, thjnk, Ogilvy, KeKo, Klubhaus, Buntspecht, Vollbild Film
Clients I´ve worked for (selection)
SWR, 3Sat / ZDF, Aktion Mensch, ALDI, Johnson & Johnson, Logitech, Lorenz, OBI, PwC, Storck, Telekom, Porsche, Audi, Fressnapf, Goethe Institut, Bayer
Competitions & Awards
2008 Shortlist Talent audition for “Das kleine Fernsehspiel” / ZDF
2009 3Sat “Der andere Blick 2.0"
2012 Vimeo Staff Picks
2016 Shortlist Hessian Film and Cinema Award, Frankfurt
2016 International du Film de l´Etudiant, second prize, Casablanca
2025 Shortlist Lagois photo competition
Short film festivals (selection)
2009 Festival International du Film de l´Etudiant, Casablanca
2009 Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden
2009 Kurzfilmtage Flensburg
2009 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
2010 Bamberger Kurzfilmtage
2010 17e édition du Festival International d´Art Vidéo, Casablanca
2010 goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden
2010 Interfilm, Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Berlin
2012 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
2013 goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden
2018 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2018 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
Group exhibitions
2009 “Rien que des images”, Goethe Institute, Rabat, Morocco
2009 “Les Transculturelles des Abattoirs”, Casablanca, Morocco
2012 “Fenster zur Straße”, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Videorama, Halle, Germany
2012 “Fenster zur Straße”, Satellit Berlin HfG Offenbach, Berlin, Germany
2012 “Ich dachte dafür müsste man mehr können”, Offenbach Hbf, Gallery space
2013 “PLUSPLUSPLUS”, Galerie Kaiser P, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2015 “Kaiser P im Exil”, Galerie Kaiser P, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2019 “Throw Ups”, ArtyFarty Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2025 “baumeisterliches:koeln”, BDB-KÖLN Architektur-Fotografie, Cologne, Germany
2025 “Blickwinkel Foto Fest”, Galerie 0, Cologne, Germany
Solo and duo exhibitions
2023 “More than decoration”, Space Place Gallery, Nischni Tagil, Russia
2024 “Stadt Land Fluss”, with Daniel Zakharov, Studio 7, Cologne, Germany
2025 “Who needs context anyway?“, Modularfield, Cologne, Germany
Publications (selection)
2013 German Short Films, Short film Catalog, AG Kurzfilm / German Short Film Association, Dresden
2017 Offenbach ist anders. Über die kleine globale Stadt, das Fremdsein und die Kunst, Kai Vöckler, Vice Versa Verlag, Offenbach
2019 We are planning to reach the camp before sunset, Photography Magazine, self-published, Cologne
2021 A Muse For The Soul, Photography Magazine, Aperture Brought Me Here, Bangkok
2021 Find Rangers #26, Photography Magazine, Find Rangers Camera Club, Los Angeles
2023 CAUSED NOTES #1 - More than decoration, Photography Magazine, self-published, Cologne
2024 CAUSED NOTES #2 - What remains, Photography Magazine, self-published, Cologne
2025 Bibin Photography Magazine #1
2025 Blickwinkel Photography Magazine, Schmackofatz, Cologne