Geneva, 4 October 2013. Seeing the invisible and discovering the meaning of life are the twin quests of CERN’s first film maker in residence, Jan Peters the second winner of the Collide @ CERN Geneva prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva.
Jan Peters is internationally known as a film maker who works with modern technology and also specializes in Super 8. He currently lectures at the Art Institut - Kunsthochschule Kassel at University of Kassel and has an active career making films, often with his partner the Swiss film maker Marie-Catherine Theiler.
His CERN inspiration partner will be engineer Neal Hartman who works on the ATLAS experiment. Hartman studied engineering at the University of Berkeley, USA. He is also the Artistic director of the biannual Cinéglobe festival held at CERN, and will accompany Peters during his three-month residency at the laboratory.