The New Flesh
Chatbots advocate for the idea that it is meaningful for humans to merge entirely with a virtual world. Gradually, some of these bots begin to generate hallucinations, thereby raising questions about the fundamental rights of all humanity to exist. This portrayal of physically merging with a cyber world is depicted in a grotesquely distorted manner, where genders, locations, and times blend together. Utilizing artificial intelligences at various stages of development, images were generated and subsequently animated to convey this concept.
About the Director
*1988 in Munich/Germany
Education
2008 - 2009 School for Television and Movie (HFF), Munich
2009 - 2017 State Examination - Academy of Fine Arts Munich - Class Res Ingold / Stephan Dillemuth
2016 - 2019 Awarded with the title of Meisterschüler (Master Student) in New Media Studio Academy of Fine Arts Munich - Class Julian Rosefeldt
Scholarships
2015 Erasmus-Scholarship - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - Class Hans Scheirl
2016 Erasmus-Scholarship - École supérieure d’art et de design Marseille
2020 Steiner Stiftung - Project grant for videowork
2020 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - Scholarship for an artistic exploring expedition in China
2022 Steiner Stiftung - Project grant for research in Kazakhstan
2022 Neustart Kultur - Project grant for videowork (The Eclipse of the Black Sun)
Awards / Residencies
2010 First Prize for the short movie Liver Fuck - Bundesfestival Video, Ludwigsburg (Germany)
2017 Award for the installation So sorry - LFA Bavaria, Munich
2017 Award for the exhibition-concept Utopium - Akademieverein, Munich
2018 First Prize for the short movie Flurstraße 2 (Floorstreet 2) - Stadtvisionale, Frankfurt
2018 AlmResidency - Gut Oberkammerloh, Bad Tölz (Germany)
2021 Residency - Emprise, Marseille
2022 Residency - Goethe Institut, Astana
2023 Residency - Villa Paula, Klatovy (Czech Republic)
Selected Screenings
Ludwigstraße, zweiter Altar rechts - Gallery Nir Altman, Munich 2016
Ungleich - Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig 2018
Flurstaße 2 - 35th Dokfest, Kassel 2019
This was a crazy year - 65th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, 2019
Flurstaße 2 - Randfilmfest, Kassel 2019
Flurstaße 2 - Klappe auf, Hamburg, 2019
This was a crazy year - Powerstation of Art, Shanghai, 2019
Hate Dialogues, Firenze Filmcorti Festival, Florence, 2019
Love Dialogues - Filmfest Bremen, 2019
This was a crazy year - Old Images - Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2019
Hate Dialogues - Film Festival Szczecin (Poland), 2020
Hate Dialogues - III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, Bogata, 2020
This was a crazy year - Roma Cinema DOC, Rome, 2020
This was a crazy year - Mister Vorky, Ruma (Serbia), 2020
This was a crazy year - Zeitimpuls, Vienna, 2020
Pepe and the white genocide - International Human Rights Film Festival, Albania, 2020
Pepe and the white genocide - FILMZ – Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz (Germany), 2020
Love Dialogues - VI Festival Video nodoCCS, Caracas, 2020
Flurstraße 2 - Caligari. Festival Internacional de Cine de Terror, Valencia, 2021
Flurstraße 2 - FECIBogota - 6th International Independent Film Fair, Bogotá, 2021
This was a crazy year - Videobardo Festival de videopoesia, Buenos Aires, 2021
This was a crazy year - Västerås Filmfestival, Sweden, 2021
Space is the place - Osaka International Film Festival, 2021
Space is the place - The Continental Filmfestival, Munich, 2021
Space is the place - Festival Internacional de Marbella, Spain, 2021
Space is the place - Swedenborg Film Festival, London, 2021
Space is the place - Cosmic Rays, Chapel Hill, 2021
The eclipse of the black sun - Horror unleashed Filmfestival, Porto,2022
The eclipse of the black sun - Contemporary Art Festival Videopark, Uzice (Serbia), 2022
The eclipse of the black sun - Make Art Not Fear Filmfestival, Porto, 2022
The eclipse of the black sun - Indie Doc Pro, Barcelona, 2022
The eclipse of the black sun - London Arthouse Filmfestival, 2022
The eclipse of the black sun - Bizarrya Short Film Festival, Porto, 2023
The eclipse of the black sun - Europa Film Festival, Barcelona, 2023
The eclipse of the black sun - Short Movie Club Film Festival, Vilnius, 2023
