Seminar by Sabrina Labis Summer Semester 2026 Universität der Künste Berlin “There is a power in looking.” — bell hooks What does it mean to look — and what does it mean to be looked at?Taking bell hooks’ assertion that looking is never neutral as a starting point, the seminar …
Filmmaking as Magical Practice SoSe26
by Sabrina Labis with Katharina Lüdin and Anna IlinSummer Semester 2026Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Filminstitut Following a media-philosophical approach, the seminar explored filmmaking as a form of magical practice. Drawing on Vilém Flusser’s reflections on the camera as a “magical apparatus” and on the “magical character of the image,” …
Filmmaking as Magical Practice
Seminar 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 …
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 …