Markus Maicher, 1984, is an experimental filmmaker, projectionist at the Austrian Filmmuseum, part of the artist-run film lab filmkoop wien, PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts and teaches film as artistic research at the TU Vienna. He studied Sociology, Urban Studies, Psychoanalytic Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Experimental Film at the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film. His film works engage with the cinematographic dispositiv and the poetry of the physical qualities of film itself. His films have been shown at festivals such as Vienna Shorts Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Experiments in Cinema, Analogica, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Fracto, RPM Festival and at the Austrian Filmmuseum, Stadtkino and Metro Kinokulturhaus.
Filmography (selection)
EARTH WATER MOTOR II (2023)
EARTH WATER MOTOR (2022)
MEMORY SERIES (2021)
10 MEGABYTES OF MEMORY (2021)
INTO THE WILD (2020)
Project in residence: Objects in the rear mirror appear closer than they really are (production)
The project “Objects in the rear mirror appear closer than they really are” will examine the relationship between the autobiographical and the media in a self-reflective manner. Various media devices such as photographs, analog film and video8 fragments from the filmmaker, family and friends will poetically and structurally open up the past and the present on an equal footing. A complex and heterogeneous relationship between different media, memories and images is spanned in a kaleidoscopic collage. The story will span four generations and is set in Carinthia and Vienna.
During his stay in Villach, Markus Maicher will collect and view archive materials (photos, Video8 recordings, Super8 recordings), make film recordings and will start editing. His goal is to be able to present a rough version of the film after three months.
