Markus Maicher

CV

Works at

  • current Character Film Co-Founder
  • since 2022 filmkoop wien Chairman
  • since 2018 Austrian Film Museum · Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21 · Viennale · Diagonale Film projection
  • since 2023 University of Klagenfurt, Visual Culture Lecturer

Past positions

  • 2016–2020 TU Wien, Institute of Sociology Lecturer in Artistic Research / Film
  • 2016–2017 Filmarchiv Austria, Metro Kinokulturhaus Film projection, workshops
  • 2016–2017 University of Vienna, Film and Media Studies Lecturer in Artistic Research
  • 2012–2015 TU Wien, Institute of Sociology University Assistant (prae doc)
  • 2011–2012 wienXtra-jugendinfo, Vienna Project coordination and artistic direction, USE-IT City Map
  • 2010–2011 Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna Research Assistant

Studied at

  • since 2020 University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute for Media Theory PhD candidate
  • 2023–2024 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Film and Art Guest student with Tizza Covi
  • 2016–2018 University of Vienna, Theatre, Film and Media Studies
  • 2015–2017 School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film, Vienna
  • 2015–2016 IPU Berlin, Psychoanalytic Cultural Studies
  • 2008–2010 MA Urban Studies “4Cities” Brussels · Copenhagen · Madrid · Vienna
  • 2004–2008 BA Sociology, University of Graz

Grants & Residencies

  • 2025 Film Production Grant, “24 mainframes per nanosecond” Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Austria
  • 2025 Project Development Grant, “Trapez” Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Austria
  • 2024 Working Grant for Filmmakers Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Austria
  • 2023 Film Production Grant, “Objects in the rear mirror appear closer than they really are” Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, City of Vienna, Carinthia, Styria, Lower Austria
  • 2022 Working Grant and Residency for Film Regional Ministry for Culture, Carinthia
  • 2022 Artist Residency, Medienfrische Tirol
  • 2021 Working Grant for Filmmakers Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Austria
  • 2019 Independent Imaging Retreat, Film Farm, Canada
  • 2016 Film as a Sensitive Body, Summer Academy Salzburg

Workshops attended

  • 2023 Baltic Analog Lab Film School Online
  • 2023 No Limitations: An Exploration into Super 8 Camera Techniques Workshop with Pablo Marín, Vienna
  • 2023 Analog Contact Printing Workshop with Stefanie Weberhofer, Vienna
  • 2023 Expanded Cinema: Apparatus and Methodology Workshop with Alex MacKenzie, Vienna
  • 2022 Introduction to Programming with Python Harvard Online
  • 2022 Bash Scripting for Audiovisual Preservation AMIA, online
  • 2022 Film Alterations Analogica, workshop with Péter Lichter, Bolzano
  • 2021 FIAF Audiovisual Archival Summer School Online
  • 2021 FIAF Digital Archives Summer School Filmuniversität Babelsberg
  • 2020 Introduction to Computer Science Harvard Online
  • 2020 Phytography Workshop with Karel Doing, Vienna
  • 2020 Small File Media Aesthetics and Politics Workshop with Laura U. Marks, online
  • 2019 Caring for Artists’ Films MoMA Media Conservation Initiative, New York
  • 2019 Oberhausen Seminar Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen / LUX / Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
  • 2017 Das Kino und das Fremde Summer School, Austrian Film Museum
  • 2017 Super 8 Pixilation Workshop with Madi Piller, Vienna
  • 2016 Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión Documentary Summer School, Cuba
  • 2016 Ethnocineca Film Workshop Vienna
  • 2015 Video journalism, studio production Okto.tv, Vienna
  • 2015 Camera, directing, light, script writing VHS Film and Media Center, Vienna