by Sabrina LabisWinter Semester 2024/25 The seminar Filmmaking as Magical Practice invited us to explore filmmaking not merely as amedium of representation, but as a transformative and performative act — a form of contemporaryritual. Drawing inspiration from Vilém Flusser’s reflections on the camera as a “magical apparatus”and the “magical character …
Michael Reinhold Graduation Project
Professional Filmmaker 7(work in progress) by Michaël Reinhold with Yuzhi Chen Country: USA / Germany Genre: Hybrid Experimental Film / Performance / Documentary Two filmmakers – Yuzhi Chen and performance artist Michaël Reinhold – set out to question what “professional” means in a film industry that is at once seductive and exploitative, glamorous and precarious. Beneath …