Michaela Resch (she/her) is a filmmaker and artist with a background in Visual and Media Anthropology and Media Studies. Born in Austria, she grew up in Vienna and North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). After living and working in Guatemala, she studied Media Studies and Communications (Bakk.phil) at the University of Vienna as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology and Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In fall 2018, she graduated from the international advanced Master's Program Visual and Media Anthropology (M.A.) at Freie Universität Berlin with her documentary “HERZ STICHT“ (Austria/Germany, completed in 2019). Her short documentary "RE:AW:RE:FW" (Germany, 2016 in collaboration with Anna Caroline Arndt) won the special award of the foundation of the Sorbian People (Stiftung für das sorbische Volk) at the 26th Filmfestival Cottbus and was nominated during the 41st Duisburger Filmwoche for the European film prize for political child and youth documentaries ”GROSSE KLAPPE” – founded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB). Since 2010 she has been working, amongst other positions as a director, author and producer with various organizations and companies such as Deutsche Welle Women, Museum Neukölln or Kulturprojekte Berlin. She is also a trained and experienced editor and camerawoman. Currently, she is working on her artistic projects whilst freelancing in Berlin, Vienna and beyond.

Artist's statement

With my visual art, I follow questions revolving around time, identity, connectedness and spirituality. In creating collages of soundscapes and (abstract) imagery, I mirror my subjective processes and observations of the world around me. Next to my multilayered digital photography, my main method is audiovisual poetry. I start off by intuitively writing a poem or interpreting one that inspires and touches me, relating to a larger question or phenomenon. In the next step, I design a concept around it that I then visualize in creating an associative and affective experience. Recurring motifs are sounds and shapes of nature, shadow and light and last but not least reflections.

Filmography (selections)

THROUGH THE RABBIT HOLE (WT)

(director, author)

Year: in development

Genre: documentary

Length: approx. 90 min

BODY language

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2021

Genre: video art

Length: 02:38 min

IN THE MOMENT

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2020

Genre: experimental

Length: 01:00 min

YOU ARE WHAT IS?

(director, concept, camera, editor)

Year: 2019

Genre: video art installation

Length: 04:56 min (loop)

IN GOOD HANDS

(DoP)

Year: 2019

Genre: installation

Length: 7 portraits á 03:00 min

HERZ STICHT

(director, author, DoP, editor, producer)

Year: 2019

Genre: documentary film

Length: 45:48 min

PAST TENSE

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2019

Genre: video art

Length: 01:00 min

BECOMING ONE

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2018

Genre: experimental

Length: 02:54 min

THE FUTURE WITHIN THE PAST

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2017

Genre: video art

Length: 01:18 min

STANCE BEFORE OPINION

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2017

Genre: short documentary

Length: 14:28 min

UDAY

(director, author, camera, editor)

Year: 2017

Genre: ethnographic short film

Length: 03:43 min

RE:AW:RE:FW

(co-director, author, DoP, editor, producer)

Jahr: 2016

Genre: short documentary

Länge: 06:17 min

BERLIN VISUAL POETRY

(concept, image)

Year: 2012

Genre: video art installation

Length: 0:50 min

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