Malwa Grabowska aka Hipermania is an independent filmmaker and photographer, and studied the arts at Roskilde University, filmmaking at New York Film Academy and documentary photography at ICP International Center for Photography in NYC.

Malwa produces film and photography works crossing the borders of documentary and fiction, whilst simultaneously having collaborated with a wide range of performing artists and cultural enterprises such as CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival, The Current – storytelling platform (DK), Art District (DK), KØS Museum for Art in Public Spaces (DK), UNESCO/ CICLO ARTS – International Arts Education Project (DK) or MAIRIE DE PARIS – Paris City Hall (FR).

Malwa also worked as cinematographer on “Dancing Resistanbul” dir. by Claudia Muench, a documentary film on creative forms of protest in Istanbul during the Gezi Park demonstrations of 2013. The film premiered in March 2015 at LICHTER Film Festival in Frankfurt.