In an age in which digital images increasingly mediate memory, self-understanding, social recognition, and everyday experience, the central question of this work is not how accurately an image represents a person, but what conditions enable a person to flourish within an image-saturated environment. The experimental video reflects current conditions.
films
Blessed Simonida from the Brilliant Grounds
COLLECTION ENTRY: THE FILM AND VIDEO POETRY SOCIETY / 2026
BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL SHORT AWARDS: WINNER 08 / 2026
PARIS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
STOCKHOLM SHORT FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 08 / 2026
MADRID ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL: 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
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES
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
FRAMES OF NEWYORK FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 2026
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.
“PELAGUS SUBSTANTIAE INFINITUM”
Video of Noah Holtwiesche’s artistic performance of the same title: “The I as an island in the infinite sea of substance – countless words – before it disappears into silence again”. [*]
Jewish Life and Resistance in the Liepaja Region
Documentary film looking at Jewish history and culture since the migration of Jews to Courland, with a focus on Liepaja and Aizpute in the 40ies of the last century
jumbo shampoo or Joerg Bungee lost on the rope
The film deals with the ambiguity of velocity – its passion and eroticism and with danger …