Her Name Was Europa, premiered at Berlinale in 2020 and has screened in a large number of film festivals among them Viennale, FIDMarseille, New York Film Festival and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It has also won multiple awards including the LineaDoc competition at Linea d’Ombra Festival and the Contemporary Surrealism Award at Rizoma Festival.

 

" [...]Her Name Was Europe is a multidisciplinary search for a wild past that may never have existed; an opening to recent history through painstaking research and threaded narratives that converge at the same point: the question of identity (national, cultural and political)." Borja Castillejo Calvo, Cinesinfin

 

"Dornieden and Monroy have been described as “futurist anthropologists,” exploring the past through the lens of an avant-garde approach to imagemaking. Her Name Was Europa is an invigorating attempt at linking past, present, and future in an ongoing formal conversation, infused with a wry, absurdist sense of humor that belies the film’s rigorous structural methodology." Daniel Gorman, In Review Online

 

Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy are filmmakers based in Berlin. They work together under the moniker OJOBOCA. Together they practice Orrorism, a simulated method of inner and outer transformation.

 

They have presented their films and performances in a wide variety of venues and festivals worldwide, among them the Wexner Center for the Arts, Österreichische Filmmuseum, Museum of the Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kunstverein München, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlinale, New York Film Festival, Visions du Réel, RIDM, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. They are both members of the artist-run film lab LaborBerlin.