is part of DocOnly in Copenhagen tomorrow. I’m very grateful that the film can shine a light on the genocide of the Yaghan and Selk’nam peoples in so many different places.
When Fire Turns to Ash
has been selected for the International Cultural Journal Award in Lviv, Ukraine. Thanks!
When Fire Turns to Ash
has received an Honorable Mention at Experimental Brasil! I couldn’t be more thrilled, thanks.
The Great Thaw Redux
Tomorrow a very interesting and fun collaboration with The Vienna Reed Quintet will have its premiere at Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg. The Quintet has created a new soundtrack with the composition of Klaus Lang for The Great Thaw Redux.
More info:
What’s Up Vienna! What’s Up Montréal!
Come join us for the first day of What’s Up Vienna! What’s Up Montréal! Part 1 at echoraum Wien tomorrow April 23 at 8pm at Echoraum with
Sophie Trudeau / Michaela Grill
Stephanie Castonguay / Gabriela Golder
Mark Molnar / noid / Martin Brandlmayr
The Great Thaw
Exiting news: The Great Thaw is part of Unstable Grounds: Artistic Research Lines of Flight exhibition in Lisbon. If you are in the neighbourhood, check it out. Lots of interesting artists and activities surrounding the event. Thanks so much for including our work!
ARE 2026 Unstable Grounds: Artistic Research Lines of Flight
15 April 2026 to 25 April | Online until April 2027 | https://are.filmeu.eu/
Location BEATO INNOVATION DISTRICT – Fábrica de Moagem, Confeitaria Avenida Infante Dom Henrique, 141. 1960 – 406 Lisboa
Tuesday to Saturday: 14h30 to 18h30 FREE ENTRY
In a world rattled by ecological breakdown, algorithmic control, political extremism and deepening instability, ARE 2026 arrives with urgency. Titled Unstable Grounds: Artistic Research Lines of Flight, this year’s Artistic Research Exhibition brings together international artists and researchers whose work confronts the fractures of the present and, in doing so, refuses paralysis or retreat. Developed within the European WIRE project of FilmEU, ARE has become a major platform for transdisciplinary artistic research, presenting works that move beyond the academy to engage directly with the cultural, political and social pressures reshaping contemporary life.
Rather than treating instability solely as a crisis, ARE 2026 frames it as a volatile space of possibility: a site where dominant structures begin to crack and new forms of relation, expression and knowledge can take shape. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of line of flight, the exhibition brings together audiovisual and media-based works that challenge fixed narratives, expose systems of control, and imagine alternative futures in motion. The result is a bold and timely exhibition that positions artistic research not as commentary emitted from the margins, but as a vital force for navigating, resisting and rethinking an unstable world.
When Fire Turns to Ash
When Fire Turns to Ash has been selected for the Latino and Native American Film Festival, LANAFF in New Haven, Connecticut and will screen on April 17. Thanks so much for the invitation!
Into the Great White Open
Multimedia Cultural Centre Split, as part of the Novi šum 2026 program, presents a film cycle that will take place at the Amphitheatre of Dom mladih. Screenings begin at the end of March and will precede the concerts within the program.
While the musical segment of Novi šum focuses on contemporary alternative and electronic music, the film program expands it both thematically and conceptually, maintaining genre curiosity and openness. Through a selection of documentary portraits, film essays, and experimental titles, the cycle creates dialogues between filmmakers and musicians, explores innovative sound practices, the history of the avant-garde, the social role of music, as well as the future of sonic expression.
Admission to all screenings is free, and films are shown with Croatian subtitles.
PROGRAM
- April 24 at 19:30 | Soundtrack Dialogues for Short Film (51′)
The Great White Emptiness, dir. Michaela Grill (AT, 2015, 16′)
An audiovisual contemplation of Arctic horizons and the soundscapes of Philip Jeck.
- Joy, dir. Jodie Mack (US, 2005, 3′)
An abstract animation created directly on film for the Four Tet project.
- Black and White Tryptych No. 3, dir. Ben Russell (US, 2007, 12′)
A transformation of the audience into a ritual trance of the highest order at a noise concert by the legendary Lightning Bolt.
- Reel to Reel, dir. Stefano Canapa (FR, 2020, 20′)
A diptych on transitions from reel to reel, from magnetic tape to film, inspired by the improvisational skill of Jérôme Noetinger.
When Fire Turns to Ash
Its always special for me to present work at the Diagonale. Festival des österreichischen Films. It’s the place where I’ve presented my first film, where I had my first retrospective and nearly cried on stage when I won a prize.
It makes me very happy that this year I can present my first feature length film „When Fire Turns to Ash“ and I’m very thankful to Claudia Slanar and Dominik Kamalzadeh for the selection.
The screenings are on Saturday, 21.03., 17:00, Schubertkino 2 and Monday, 23.03., 11:00, Annenhof Kino 5.
I will be there in person and look forward to another fun Diagonale!
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