Markus Maicher

About

I am an experimental filmmaker, projectionist & lecturer based in Vienna.

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.”— Stan Brakhage, Metaphors on Vision

16mm · Super8 · darkroom · expanded cinema · experimental film · analog · open source · self-hosted

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News

2026

• 04.07.Blätter im Herbst #2 — Sommerfest, filmkoop wienscreening
• 30.06.Objects in the rear mirror appear closer than they really are — Austrian Filmmuseumscreening
• 15.06.Objects in the rear mirror appear closer than they really are — Istanbul Experimental Film Festivalscreening
• 21.05.Untitled (Motion) — Blickle Kinoscreening
• 21.05.Notes From the Darkroom — Blickle Kinocurating
• 09.05.Blätter im Herbst — Elemental Alchemy, filmkoop wienscreening

2025

• 23.10.10 megabytes of memory — Uppsala Short Film Festivalscreening
• 05.10.Phytography — Foto Arsenalworkshop
• 25.09.10 megabytes of memory — 25fps Film Festivalscreening
• 24.09.10 megabytes of memory — Dream Sequencescreening
• 21.09.Earth Water Motor II — Klagenfurter Kunstfilmtagelecture/screening
• 16.09.Production Grant — "24 mainframes per nanosecond" — BMWKMS Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Austriagrant
• 13.09.16mm Filmmaking — filmkoop wienworkshop
• 14.06.16mm Filmmaking — filmkoop wienworkshop
• 29.05.10 megabytes of memory — Vienna Shortsscreening
• 28.05.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Leiden Shortsscreening
• 17.05.Projector Repair Workshop — filmkoop wienworkshop
• 16.05.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — art+film+viennascreening
• 09.05.10 megabytes of memory — Indie Lisboascreening
• 01.05.10 megabytes of memory — Kurzfilmtage Oberhausenscreening
• 13.04.The Sound of Sweden — Filmform Screening, filmkoop wiencurating
• 05.04.10 megabytes of memory — Go Shortscreening
• 04.04.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Onion City Experimental Film Festivalscreening
• 25.01.Into the Wild — Achteinhalb Videothekscreening

2024

• 04.12.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — K3 Film Festivalscreening
• 14.11.Earth Water Motor II — Analogicascreening
• 14.11.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Experimental Superstarsscreening
• 17.10.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Antimatter Media Artscreening
• 15.10.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festivalscreening
• 19.09.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Cindependent & Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festivalscreening
• 11.09.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Chicago Underground Film Festivalscreening
• 24.07.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Revelation Perth International Film Festivalscreening
• 29.05.The Act Of Not Seeing With One's Own Eyes — Vienna Shortsworld premiere
• 18.05.Phytography — filmkoop wienworkshop
• 29.04.I See A Darkness. Winterphytogramme — Die Grüne Kammer, Fotogalerie Wienexhibition
• 07.04.Super8 Filmmaking — filmkoop wienworkshop
• 07.04.Blätter im Herbst #1/#2 — Cinema Expanded @ Diagonale Forumscreening
• 16.03.Earth Water Motor II — Dresdner Schmalfilmtagescreening
• 14.03.Blätter im Herbst #1/#2 — 16mm double projection @ Austrian Filmmuseumcurating/screening
• 14.03.Earth Water Motor Series — Expanded Cinema @ Blickle Kinoscreening
• 19.01.Blätter im Herbst #2 — Analogfilmwerke Hamburgscreening

2023

• 12.12.Trailer Freies Kino — Stadtkino Künstlerhausscreening
• 07.12.Earth Water Motor II — K3 Film Festivalscreening
• 25.11.Earth Water Motor II — Festival Cinemisticascreening
• 21.11.Earth Water Motor II — Freies Kino im Stadtkino Künstlerhausscreening
• 19.11."FROM EMULSION TO ALGORITHM. Handmade Film Practices in a Post-Digital Age" — University of Klagenfurtguest lecture
• 10.11.Earth Water Motor II — Experimental Superstarsscreening
• 03.11.Earth Water Motor II — Engauge Experimental Film Festivalscreening
• 26.10.Earth Water Motor II — Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festivalscreening
• 13.10."Handmade Cinema: Photochemischer Film im digitalen Zeitalter" — Seminar, University of Klagenfurtteaching
• 08.09."Lo-Fi, High-Contrast. Hand-made Film Ecologies and the Material Body of Analog Film" — Visible Evidence Conference, Film Forum Udinetalk
• 05.06.Earth Water Motor II — Vienna Shorts Film Festivalscreening
• 17.05.16mm Filmmaking Workshop — University of Applied Arts Viennateaching
• 02.04.I am not there — Analog Maniascreening
• 01.04.The Aesthetics of Disappearance — Video Installation, Analog Maniavernissage
• 06.02.Memory Series — Video Installation, Galerie Krasvernissage
• 23.01."Arbeiten mit analogem Film" mit T. Covi, R. Frimmel u. I. Brunäcker — Stadtkino Wientalk
• 21.01.Earth Water Motor II — Rundgang AK Bildendescreening
• 16.01.Artist Talk — Friedl Kubelka Schule für unabhängigen Filmtalk

2022

• 16.12.Memory Series — K3 Film Festivalscreening
• 14.12.K3 Trailer — K3 Film Festivalpremiere
• 26.11.Lichtbild 4:3 — Super8 Projector Installation, Kultuhof Villachvernissage
• 23.11.Into the Wild — Istanbul International Experimental Film Festivalscreening
• 19.11.Super8TV — Video Installation, Vienna Art Week / Creative Clustervernissage
• 11.11.Cosmic Noise 4:3 — Video Installation, Vienna Art Week / Creative Clustervernissage
• 10.11.Mountain View — Analogicascreening
• 09.11.As you are coming closer — Festival de Sevillascreening
• 04.11.Blätter im Herbst — GROW II, Blickle Kinocurating/screening
• 02.11.Mountain View — Engauge Experimental Film Festivalscreening
• 20.10.Memory Series — Antimatter [Media Art]screening
• 13.10.Mountain View — ULTRAcinemascreening
• 01.10.3-month filmmaking stipend — BMKÖS Federal Ministry of Culturegrant
• 20.08.Into the Wild / 10 megabytes of memory — Waldarena Krumpendorfcurating/screening
• 26.07.As you are coming closer — Syros International Film Festival (SIFF)screening
• 09.07.Blätter im Herbst — Dresdner Schmalfilmtagescreening
• 01.07.3-month filmmaking grant — Cultural Commission Carinthiagrant/residency
• 14.06.Medienfrische Tirol / Bschlabertalresidency
• 26.05.10 megabytes of memory — Split Videoart Festival & Vienna Shorts Film Festivalscreening
• 13.05.Die Kino Maschine — Österreichisches Filmmuseumworkshop
• 02.05.Mountain View / Into the Wild — Metrokino Kulturhausscreening
• 10.04.Into the Wild — Peripheriesscreening
• 09.04.Memory Series — Diagonalescreening
• 25.03.10 megabytes of memory — Under the Radarscreening

2021

• 10.12.Into the Wild — Harkat 16mm Film Festival & Kinoskop - Analog Experimental Film Festivalscreening
• 05.11.Into the Wild — Chicago Underground Film Festivalscreening
• 16.10.10 megabytes of memory / Into the Wild — Tranas at the Fringescreening
• 01.08.Into the Wild — Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsiascreening
• 12.06.Into the Wild — Diagonalescreening
• 27.05.Into the Wild — Vienna Shorts Film Festivalscreening

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