HANNAH HEER works in film, video, mixed media, installation and photography.

Hannah Heer's new documentary film, KOL ISHAH – THE RABBI IS A WOMAN, (2008) opens a window into the world of four diverse women rabbis at the beginning of the 21st century.

Hannah Heer created in collaboration with Werner Schmiedel the feature length documentaries, THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE - SIMON WIESENTHAL (1995), and THE OTHER EYE (1991).

THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE examines life and work of Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor, who became one of the most recognized Jewish humanitarians of the 20th century. Introduced as "non-traditional iin form", THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York in 1995. When the ART OF REMEMBRANCE screened In Los Angeles, the critic Manohla Dargis noted, "the film builds its case with quiet force and intellectual acuity". THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE was short-listed for an Academy Award in the Feature Documentary Category.

THE OTHER EYE is a cinematic journey exploring life and work of filmdirector G.W.Pabst through the 1920s to the 1960s. At the premiere of THE OTHER EYE at the New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall in 1991, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented THE OTHER EYE as a "breakthrough documentary film" for which Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel have "evolved a rich visual language new to the documentary film, using a elaborate color structure that reflects not only various moods but different periods of time".

Hannah Heer is also a pioneer Director of Photography on feature films. Ms. Heer's innovative camera movements and lighting design on SUGARBABY, directed by Percy Adlon, were celebrated as a major contribution to the film’s international success. SUGARBABY was the ‘surprise- hit’ of the New York Film Festival in 1985, and was exhibited theatrically and on Television in 40 countries worldwide. In 1986, the American Cinematographer Magazine, published an extensive article about Hannah Heer’s work as Director of Photography.

Hannah Heer was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 1983 Hungarian Film Festival for Gabor Body’s feature film, DOG’s NIGHT SONG, which was photographed in Budapest and the Matra region in Hungary.

In New York City, Hannah Heer was the Director of Photography and Producer of the avant-garde feature SUBWAY RIDERS, directed by Amos Poe. This film was chosen as Outstanding Film of the Year by the British Film Institute at the London Film Festival in 1981.

Hannah Heer has served as a Professor in Vienna and in New York.

Besides TV screenings on three continents, Heer’s work has been invited to festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Athens (Ohio), San Francisco, Telluride, Montreal, Deauville, Cannes, London, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Figueira da Foz, Budapest, The Hague, Valladolid, Jerusalem, Sao Paulo, Bombay (Mumbai) and others. Heer's work has been shown at the American Museum of the Moving Image and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Houston, and in Colleges, Libraries, Synagogues, Galleries and Museums in the USA, in Canada and in Europe.

Hannah Heer is working on several film, photography and mixed media projects.

Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel are the founders of the innovative film production company River Lights Pictures, Inc., New York.