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 …
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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 …
Esteban Pérez Graduation Project
Ñawpa Urku is a video installation that weaves poetry, sound, and digital animation in a speculative narrative told from the perspective of an Andean volcano. Expanding on Andean Futurism, the project uses cinematic strategies and collective speculation to interweave game engines with Andean indigenous worldviews, imagining a future where the …
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 …
More than Green: Stadtökologie und Kunst
by Prof. Nina Fischer, Florian Wüst Soil life, circular economy, environmental protection – countering the destruction of human and natural resources in the industrial age has a long history. The early eco-movements thought ahead, tried things out, failed and are not just being rediscovered today. Moving from the local to …
Rundgang SoSe 2025
As with every end of the summer semster, the students show their works at Rundgang. Medienhaus has opened its doors to welcome curators and curious guest. The classrooms are open to the public and each room exhibits the most recent works of the students, which they made over the course …
Exkursion zur VIDEONALE.20
by Prof. Nina Fischer and Sabrina LabisSummer Semsster 2025 As part of the Fachklasse Experimental Film and Media Art, an excursion to VIDEONALE.20 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Art in Bonn is planned. From May 9 to May 11, 2025, students had the opportunity to visit the festival and participate …
Seminar „Walls have Feelings“
by Sabrina Labis Winter Semsster 2024/25 The seminar Walls Have Feelings took us on a journey through Berlin’s architectural landscapes, uncovering the ways in which buildings shape not only our movement but also our thoughts, emotions, and societal structures. Inspired by Katherine Shonfield’s book Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and …
More than green: City Walk
The second seminar session of „More than green: Urban Ecology and Art” on 6 November 2024 we spent outside under Berlin’s gray and cold sky, walking from Potsdamer Platz to Elise-Tilse-Park, across the pedestrian bridge over the Landwehrkanal and along the outdoor premises of the Technikmuseum into Gleisdreieckpark, and from …