OTHERWORLDLY 3.0 FILM FESTIVAL
4–6 September 2026 / Saint Petersburg
skin flats part I: OFFICIAL SELECTION
The images forming skin flats represent a quasi self-generated meditative line of self-viewing perspective, created through Subconscious Image Writing. Although the image montages are self-portraits, they ultimately see themselves as “empty” works, elaborated from an aspiration of the artist to let “non-individual”, “non-designed” works emerge.
07/17–11/30/2026
ON SCREEN VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2026 – OFFICIAL SELECTION
DOI ENTRY 2025
ARTECH 2025 – OFFICIAL SELECTION
In a transdisciplinary approach of artistic research, the paper and the art media piece examine questions of perception on the basis of the the experiental image-video installation skin flats that aims at evoking an immersive state of meditative perception in the recipient.
Flourishing is an artistic research project initiated by Alexandra Reill in the spring of 2026. It focuses on examining recent developments in flourishing research and exploring how life can flourish on Earth today, as well as what is needed to guide it toward a flourishing future. The topic of flourishing, with its diverse and often mutually or multidirectionally influencing components, can only be considered as a meta-question.
MADRID ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL SHORT AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
BERLIN SHORTS AWARD: SEMI-FINALIST 06 / 2026
ROTTERDAM INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 06 / 2026
LOS ANGELES SHORT FILM AWARDS: OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026
NEW YORK FILM & CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS: OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026
AMSTERDAM MOVIE FEST: NOMINATION 2026
ATLANTA CINEMA AWARDS: NOMINATION 2026
CANNES ARTS FEST AWARD: NOMINATION 2026
Experimental live action arthouse
Audiovisual real-time enactment / Performative readings
on contemporary issues of the political sovereign following Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards
WASHINGTON FILM AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST SUMMER 2026
BERLIN INDIE AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 07/2026
CINE PARIS FILM FESTIVAL: WINNER BEST ARTIST’S FILM 06/2026
NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 06/2026:
screening dates to be announced
FRAMES OF NEWYORK FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 2026:
screening dates to be announced
PORTLAND MOVIEMAKERS AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST SPRING EDITION 2026
POWER24 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: HONORABLE MENTION 2026
NEW YORK INDEPENDENT CINEMA AWARDS: OFFICIAL CONSIDERATION 2026
SWEDEN FILM AWARDS: FINALIST AUGUST 2025
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES researches personal mechanisms of mystification existing as a result of ignorance or perfidious violence in society.
ATLANTA MOVIE AWARDS: BEST THREE MINUTE SEMI-FINALIST 2026
EXQUISITE CORPSE @MILLENIUM CITY FILM ARCHIVES CENTER / NYC: OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025
Even if you reach a high age of 92 years, the time will come when you are not recalled anymore.
In her silent experimental super-short [loop], Alexandra Reill interprets aging body parts and thus addresses the imperfection of the human body. She refers to the irritations that aging and imaginations on death can cause and, not least, to age discrimination.
A letter to and for you and to and for me
dated January 31, 2025, with additions from February
Under the meta-theme of the transience of phenomena, the photo series Stumbling Waters refers to manifestations of destruction, whether in nature or in a metaphorical reference to global social developments that transform a peaceful flow of life into turbulent upheavals; which have consequences, leave traces and thus change a “world;” even if there are no phases of destruction that are not also subject to transience.