Experimental film / Media art

Congratulations to Estéban Pérez (@estebanperezart ) for receiving the Second Prize – Acquisition Award for his work, “Ñawpa Urku,” at the third edition of the Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial (BUAM @buam.21 ) under the theme Territorios (Re)Imaginados: Tecnologías, Conjeturas, Ficciones. Following the award, the piece will now join the permanent BUAM collection at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ @centroartequito ) Estéban is a 2025 Meisterschüler graduate of the Experimental Film class (Prof. Nina Fischer @studiofischerelsani ) at UdK Berlin- @udkberlin .

@udkfilminstitut presents AI and Fiction Film Screening and Artist Talk with Sina Ataeian Dena and Silke Botsch Wednesday, 21 January 2026 6 pm – 9 pm, free entrance Aula, Medienhaus, University of the Arts Berlin Grunewaldstr. 2–5, 10823 Berlin Film Screening and Artist Talk with Sina Ataeian Dena and Silke Botsch moderated by Prof. Nina Fischer @studiofischerelsani (Class Experimental Film and Media Art, KuM) exploring AI in media art, featuring autobiographical approaches to AI-based filmmaking. Sina Ataeian Dena (*1983 in Ahvaz, Iran) is an Iranian-German filmmaker and multimedia artist whose practice includes animation, video installations, documentary, and narrative cinema. His work frequently addresses social and political subjects through experimental and hybrid forms. His films and installations have been presented and awarded at numerous prestigious festivals and art venues internationally. Silke Botsch (*1967 in Berlin) is a Berlin-based editor and filmmaker whose work combines narrative editing, visual experimentation, and emerging AI-based production methods. She also works as a commercial director and has presented her work as a first editor for fiction, animation, and documentary films at major international festivals, including the Berlinale Forum, Karlovy Vary IFF, Sundance, Cannes, Locarno, Annecy, the Munich Film Festival, and Visions du Réel. In 2025, she created her first fully AI-generated film, a 63-minute production set for release in 2026. The Filminstitut of the University of the Arts Berlin hosts the KuM Lectures and Artist Talks at Medienhaus, where outstanding media artists and KuM alumni share their practices in public events bridging contemporary discourse and new film/media technologies. This public event is an official part of Transmediale Vorspiel 2026. @vorspiel.berlin @udkberlin https://vorspiel.berlin/events/ai-and-fiction-film-screening-and-artist-talk-with-sina-ataeian-dena-and-silke-botsch

Klasse Experimenteller Film und Medienkunst, UdK Berlin Prof. Nina Fischer Don’t miss Medienhaus Rundgang Opening: Friday 4 pm Experimental Film and Media Art students present their final and semester projects in the at Medienhaus gallery (EG), in room 128 / 129, and on Sunday as part of the cinema program (Kino EG) at Udk Medienhaus Grunewaldstr. 2-5, 10823 Berlin Opening hours: Freitag, 18.07. – 16:00 bis 00:00 Samstag, 19.07. – 11:00 bis 22:00 Sonntag, 20.07. – 10:00 bis 18:00

🌿 Multi Species Campus – Eine künstlerische Annäherung 🌿 Outdoor-Ausstellung @ Freie Universität Berlin 🗓 Vernissage: 2.7.2025 | 16–21 Uhr 📅 Ausstellung: 3.7.–3.8.2025 📍 Theaterhof & Campus FU Berlin 🎟 Eintritt frei Wem gehört der Campus? Nicht nur uns! Pflanzen, Krähen, Pilze, Insekten – sie alle sind Teil urbaner Nachbarschaften. Die Ausstellung Multi Species Campus zeigt, wie Kunst das Zusammenleben von Mensch & Nicht-Mensch sichtbar macht. ✨ Mit Arbeiten von: Dan Dansen, Sina Ataeian Dena, Lisa Hoffmann, Daeun Joo, Oskari Kakko, Yuka Ichikawa, Sophia Kimmig, Lilli Kuschel, Leo Lou, Anna Maria Mintsi-Scholze & Naira Bloss, Nicole Schuck, Juliane Zelwies, ZouZou, Florian Ruland u.a. 🎬 Vernissage-Programm: 16:30 Walk & Talk mit den Künstler*innen 18:00 Ideen-Jam „Art’n Vielfalt“ 19:00 Crow Cinema – Film Neighbors von @lillikuschel Ein Projekt des Multispecies Living Lab @fu_berlin in Kooperation mit @udkberlin & @igb_berlin . #multispeciescampus #fuberlin #udkberlin #igbberlin #artandecology #crowcinema #neighborsfilm #urbanwildlife #artivism #vernissageberlin #künstlerinnen

🌿 Multi Species Campus – Eine künstlerische Annäherung 🌿
 Outdoor-Ausstellung @ Freie Universität Berlin 🗓 Vernissage: 2.7.2025 | 16–21 Uhr 
📅 Ausstellung: 3.7.–3.8.2025
 📍 Theaterhof & Campus FU Berlin 
🎟 Eintritt frei Wem gehört der Campus? Nicht nur uns!
Pflanzen, Krähen, Pilze, Insekten – sie alle sind Teil urbaner Nachbarschaften.
Die Ausstellung Multi Species Campus zeigt, wie Kunst das Zusammenleben von Mensch & Nicht-Mensch sichtbar macht. ✨ Mit Arbeiten von:
Dan Dansen, Sina Ataeian Dena, Lisa Hoffmann, Daeun Joo, Oskari Kakko, Yuka Ichikawa, Sophia Kimmig, Lilli Kuschel, Leo Lou, Anna Maria Mintsi-Scholze & Naira Bloss, Nicole Schuck, Juliane Zelwies, ZouZou, Florian Ruland u.a. 🎬 Vernissage-Programm:
 16:30 Walk & Talk mit den Künstler*innen
18:00 Ideen-Jam „Art’n Vielfalt“
 19:00 Crow Cinema – Film Neighbors von @lillikuschel Ein Projekt des Multispecies Living Lab @fu_berlin in Kooperation mit @udkberlin & @igb_berlin . Kuratorische Leitung: Dr. Sophia Kimmig, Dr Florian Ruland, Lilli Kuschel #multispeciescampus #fuberlin #udkberlin #igbberlin #artandecology #crowcinema #neighborsfilm #urbanwildlife #artivism #vernissageberlin #künstlerinnen @flowersofmintsi @nin81055 @uozuoz_ @omgirlwtf @jul @sina.dena @lillikuschel @sustain_it_fu @campusnatur_fu @leolou_art @sickgirl75 @daeun.joo @current_situation_udk @udkfilminstitut @sophiadiebiologin @fu_berlin @udkberlin

Start of the Seminar “Filmemachen als magische Praxis” The first magical encounter we had! Led by Sabrina Labis and Prof. Nina Fischer Description for the seminar: In this seminar we will explore filmmaking as a form of magical practice from a media philosophical approach. What parallels can be drawn? How do cinematic techniques function like occult practices that alter perception, create realities, and transform consciousness? Inspired by Vilém Flusser’s reflections on the camera as a “magical apparatus” and the “magical character of the image”, we will investigate how the processes of filmmaking – from editing and cinematography to screenwriting and directing – can be interpreted as magical practices with their own rituals and rules. Is the screenplay a spellbook that shapes visions? Are the director’s instructions a magic spell? Is the camera an instrument that channels energy? The seminar combines theoretical reflection, collective screenings, and practical exercises. A key component is a five-day study trip to Gutshof Sauen in Brandenburg, where we will intensively work on these questions and develop our own cinematic spells. This seminar is for anyone interested in experimental approaches and exploring the unknown, intuitive, and mystical aspects of their own filmmaking practice.

MEISTERSCHÜLERIN PRESENTATION Kunst und Medien / Experimental Film at @udkberlin Guide Prof. Nina Fischer Symbiotic Assemblages: Towards an Interspecies Memory Symbiotic Assemblages is a 16mm installation that explores the symbiopoetics and symbiopolitics of lichens as a metaphor for new possible futures and forms of interspecies collaboration. Through 16mm projectors and digital assemblages with 3D scanning, the work merges the image of a human body with that of a lichen, blurring the boundaries between organisms and questioning our relationship with nature in a world shaped by ecological crisis. The project stems from a reflection on the cinematic medium: we create machines to replicate and represent the world we are destroying. Within this paradox, moving images become a space for negotiation between the analog and the digital, the human and the non-human, the living and the inanimate. Thus, Symbiotic Assemblages proposes an interspecies memory where coexistence is not only possible but necessary to imagine new ways of inhabiting time and matter. 🔹 Sound design: Sebastian Cifuentes @cifues 🔹 3D support: Lucian Meister @lucian.a.meister 🔹 16mm print with @antoniocastles 📸 @pablohassmann

: Meet Fischer & el Sani and the curator C. Nippe during Berlinale 21. / 22. Feb., 4.30pm - 6pm at Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin. Metakosmia - Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani Schwartzsche Villa open daily during Berlinale from 10am - 6pm. Metakosmia is about the survival in the near future in an environment that has become uninhabitable due to extreme weather phenomena. The narrative perspective is that of an ant, oberserving a teenage girl, who lives alone at Biosphere 2, an artifical habitat in the Arizona desert. Biosphere 2 is a giant glashouse, build in 1991 with the purpose of creating a self-sustainable eco system independent of the outside world. Eight visionary artists and scientists experimented with living in this artificial biotope for two years to prove that life in a closed system is possible in the long term. The spectacular project, whose investors hoped would provide insights into human survival on lunar or martian bases, was considered a failure at the time, becuase the carbon dioxide level rose unexpectedly high. Today, scientists of the University of Arizona are conducting research on climate resilience at Biosphere 2, as our society is facing significant impacts from climate change. Fischer & el Sani are interested in Biosphere 2 for it’s role today, in the age of the 6th great mass extinction, as apilot program for survival on Earth itself, and not, as the media communicated 30 years age, as an experiment for life on other planets. Metakosmia Written and directed by: Fischer & el Sani Actress: @maylabln_22 Camera: Maroan el Sani Camera-Drone: @manuelinacker Editing: Nina Fischer Voice over: Yiota Kastritis Film music: @g.s.ruessler Foley artist: @jaime_guijarrobustamente Sound Design: Christian Obermaier Mixing: Jochen Jessuzek Sonification: @stratos_bichakis 3D Animation: @tsingyun_zh @lissbokredit Graphic Design: @tobiaswenig The work Metakosmia is funded by: @medienboard @villaaurorala @thomas_mann_house The exhibition is funded by: Fonds für die Kommunalen Galerien and FABIK Curated by: @christine_nippe @kulturhaus.schwartzsche.villa

Join us for – UNGOVERNABLE INGREDIENTS – Opening 18.12.24, 6 pm The exhibition sheds light on the expanded set of ingredients that have become critical to contemporary artistic practice. These include micro-organisms, feelings, conflict and animals, alongside long-familiar media such as light, video, and fabrics. Living beings, new languages, communities, or strange materials are invited into artistic and research processes for their ungovernable qualities and become co-creators, a source of political resistance, or the crucial pinch of salt. With contributions by Maciej Chmara, Manja Ebert, Işıl Eğrikavuk + the other garden, Annika Haas, Anita Jóri, Anna Kokalanova, Lilli Kuschel, Gosia Warrink. silent green Kulturquartier, Betonhalle Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin S/U Wedding Opening Hours: 18.12.24: 6–11 pm - Vernissage 19.12.24: 2–10 pm 20.12.24: 2–10 pm - Finissage Free Entry kindly supported by @udkberlin @bas_udk_berlin PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 18 December 2024 7 pm: Booklaunch Feeling Bad AFK by Annika Haas 8-8:30 pm: Cooking Ape Institute / The society of food preparation by Maciej Chmara THURSDAY, 19 December 2024 7–9 pm: Inauguration Ceremony of the School of impermanence by Anna Kokalanova FRIDAY, 20 December 2024 3–5pm: the other garden: tea time session 5–7pm: Annika Haas: Alphabets as Infrastructures of Feelings, a Writing Workshop 8–10pm: Anita Jóri: Vinyl-only listening set by Anita Jóri aka DJ NittNo @schoolofimpermanence @manjaebert @lillikuschel @isilegri @the.other.garden @gosiawarrink @anitajori @dr.analoguebubblebath @chmara.rosinke @annikahaa.s collaborators: @mgcapellows @ileana.farabani @mirfoitnixei @katjakoeberlin @claudiamalecka @paloma_copy Visual & Gestaltung: Gosia Warrink & Katja Koeberlin / Typeface: Tresor by Christoph Koeberlin #contemporary #groupshow #artisticpractice #artisticresearch #design #science #udkberlin #collaborative @silent.green

On occasion of our exhibition Metakosmia at Schwartzsche Villa Berlin, we cordially invite you to a screening of 3 of our film-works, Cloud Alchemy (2021), I live in fear after March 11 (2023), and Dynamis (2014) followed by an Q&A with Anna Lena Seiser (n.b.k. Video Forum) On Saturday, Dec 7, 4-6 pm Schwartzsche Villa, Grunewaldstraße 55, 12165 Berlin Our exhibition Metakosmia will be open on Saturday from 10 am - 6.30 pm Metakosmia (2024) is a fictional narrative of a future in which survival is only possible under glass domes, due to climate change. The narrative perspective is that of an ant, observing a teenage girl, who lives alone at Biosphere 2, an artificial habitat in the Arizona desert, a massive greenhouse complex, built in 1991 with the purpose of creating a self-sustainable ecosystem independent of the outside world. Screening program: Cloud Alchemy (2021) is posing key questions in relation to climate change and its potential to split the society. I live in fear after March 11 (2013) is focusing on the exploration of fears and uncertainties surrounding the nuclear catastrophy and ongoing threat of radiation. Dynamis (2014) Fischer & el Sani asked citizens of Thessaloniki to take part in a patience exercise, developing a collective cultural performance. @studiofischerelsani @kulturhaus.schwartzsche.villa @christine_nippe @kommunale_galerien_berlin @neuerberlinerkunstverein

Metakosmia - Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani Artist talk, Nov. 13, 5.30pm with @christine_nippe Moderation: Christina Landbrecht @scheringstiftung Schwartzsche Villa Grunewaldstr. 55 12165 Berlin Metakosmia is about the survival in the near future in an environment that has become uninhabitable due to extreme weather phenomena. The narrative perspective is that of an ant, observing a teenage girl, who lives alone at Biosphere 2, an artificial habitat in the Arizona desert. Biosphere 2 is a giant greenhouse, built in 1991 with the purpose of creating a self-sustainable ecosystem independent of the outside world. Eight visionary artists and scientists experimented with living in this artificial biotope for two years to prove that life in a closed system is possible in the long term. The spectacular project, whose investors hoped would provide insights into human survival on lunar or martian bases, was considered a failure at the time because the carbon dioxide level rose unexpectedly high. Today, scientists of the University of Arizona are conducting research on climate resilience at Biosphere 2, as our society is facing significant impacts from climate change. Fischer & el Sani are interested in Biosphere 2 for it's role today, in the age of the 6th Great Mass Extinction, as a pilot program for survival on Earth itself, and not, as the media communicated 30 years ago, as an experiment for life on other planets. Metakosmia is a fictional narrative of a future in which survival is only possible under glass domes.

BEST PRACTICE GREEN SCREEN Blockseminar by Anne Braun In this two-day workshop we will put hands on the technique of green screen compositing. The complete workflow will be practically applied, including setting up a studio situation, shooting and actual chroma keying using post-production software. Dates: Fri 13.– Sat 14.12.2024, 10 am–5.30 pm Location: GRU 129 / Greenscreen Studio Please register in advance: kontakt(at)anne-braun.de - @studioannebraun Image credits: Anne Braun