will be in the competition of FICA 27th International Environmental Film Festival in Goiás, Brazil. I will be there for the Q&A and participate in all kinds of festival activities. I’m beyond exited!

will be in the competition of FICA 27th International Environmental Film Festival in Goiás, Brazil. I will be there for the Q&A and participate in all kinds of festival activities. I’m beyond exited!

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.
has been selected for the International Cultural Journal Award in Lviv, Ukraine. Thanks!
has received an Honorable Mention at Experimental Brasil! I couldn’t be more thrilled, thanks.

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.
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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

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 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!
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
The Great White Emptiness, dir. Michaela Grill (AT, 2015, 16′)
An audiovisual contemplation of Arctic horizons and the soundscapes of Philip Jeck.
An abstract animation created directly on film for the Four Tet project.
A transformation of the audience into a ritual trance of the highest order at a noise concert by the legendary Lightning Bolt.
A diptych on transitions from reel to reel, from magnetic tape to film, inspired by the improvisational skill of Jérôme Noetinger.