All These Summers – Therese Henningsen
ALL THESE SUMMERS – Therese Henningsen
Screening + Conversation
Thursday 18th June 2026
doors 7pm for 7.30pm start
WET, Hillevliet 90, 3074 KD, Rotterdam
We present three films by Therese Henningsen: a feature length documentary All These Summers (2025) and short films Slow Delay (2018) and Baby Jesus (2023), made in collaboration with Sidsel Meineche Hansen.
Henningsen’s films unfold as encounters and processes of discovery, the camera becoming a way of moving towards people, situations and forms of understanding that might otherwise stay inaccessible. She approaches filmmaking as a way of finding out and learning through proximity, uncertainty and exchange. The camera carries questions within it; it creates conditions for intimacy while also exposing tension, hesitation, and vulnerability that shape any encounter between filmmaker and subject. Resisting fixed ideas of process, form and ethics, Henningsen’s films consider what it might mean to engage and facilitate without governing. Rather than seeking immediate clarity or resolution, the works stay with the discomfort and ambiguity of real interpersonal relations. In doing so, they acknowledge both the limits of understanding and the fragile, unpredictable nature of relating to others through film.
All These Summers
Therese Henningsen
English and Danish spoken with English subtitles, HD video, 2025, 66mins
Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in North London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him. As her father gradually slips back into the depression that made him absent when she was a teenager, she feels a need to document this transition. Her compulsion to enter into Pete’s life and to film him echoes with her desire for understanding her father’s experience of isolation and loneliness, as well as her own relationship to it. Filmed handheld and with an unwavering gaze, All These Summers asks questions about responsibility in life and in film whilst intimately confronting the complexities of the daughter-father and filmmaker-subject relationship.
Baby Jesus Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Therese Henningsen
English spoken, HD video, 2023, 15min
Baby Jesus focuses on four elderly nuns from the congregation Little Sisters of Jesus, who live together in a tower block in Hoxton in London and a shared house in Walsingham, a village for Catholic pilgrimage in the UK. Based on interviews with little sister Catharine Helen, Patricia, Kathleen and Katarzyna Barbara of Jesus, the film is a polyvocal portrait of their life as non-monastic nuns and their personal commitment to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
Slow Delay
Therese Henningsen
English spoken with English subtitles, HD-video, 2018, 16min
Slow Delay raises questions around vulnerability and control, as well as whether any filmed encounter always involves an expectation of an exchange. ‘You’ve got something I want, and I’ve got something you want,’ he said. Twins Trevor and Raymond have lived together in New Cross, London for fifty years. They opened up their home to me after I approached them on a bus and asked to film them.
Therese Henningsen is a filmmaker based in London. Her filmmaking often finds its shape through the encounter with the person(s) filmed and the direction this takes. Her films include All These Summers (2025), After Time (2023), Slow Delay (2018), Baby Jesus and Maintenancer (2023 and 2018, with Sidsel Meineche Hansen). She has co-edited the anthology Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter (2022), with Juliette Joffé. She is a member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen engaging with the social life of film, and is a co-founder of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London/Copenhagen. She is a mentor on MA DocFiction at UCL and on MA Performance: Screen at Central Saint Martins, and facilitates the Open City Docs short course Documentary as Encounter and the CPH DOX Academy Hybrid Class. She is completing a practice-led PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
WET is supported by its members, Mondriaan Fonds, Gemeente Rotterdam and Stichting Volkskracht.
Access: WET is located on the 3rd floor and unfortunately is not wheelchair accessible. The ground floor of the building has step free access via a ramp. There is an elevator to the second floor and a flight of steps to the third floor. Gender neutral and wheelchair accessible toilets are available. Please get in touch if you have any questions about access.