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14.2.2025

ج- ن- ن J-N-N Worldpremiere @ Berlinale Forum Expanded

Exhibition, Premiere
2.2.2025

World premiere of Les Rites de Passage at the international competition of IFFR in Rotterdam

Premiere
30.12.2024 – 15.2.2025

.mpeg presents: Kontakt by Jana Magdalena Keuchel & Holger Reißig

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
5. – 29.12.2024

.mpeg presents: ST. MICKEYLAND by Ulu Braun

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
3.9.–3.10.2024

.mpeg presents: LAMENTO by Binha Haase

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
Documentary, Experimental

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds

Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder 2017 30 min

29.10.2024

Premiere of The Vagabond's Garden in the German Competition of Dok Leipzig Festival

Premiere, Screening
3.10.–2.11.2024

.mpeg presents: Former East / Former West by Shelly Silver

.mpeg, Exhibition, Screening, Online
22.9.2024

Frohe Zukunft @ IDEAL art space

Screening
3.9.–3.10.2024

.mpeg presents: Phobos by Mina Keshavarz

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
September 2024

LETsDOK Documentary Film Days to feature FILZ films

FILZ recommends, Screening
Documentary, Experimental

She works hard

Kathrin Lemcke 2017 54 min

11.-14.10.2024

Once we were pitmen - nominated for the edititing award @ Edimotion Festival

Further Recognition, Screening
15.7.–14.8.2024

.mpeg presentst: E by Alexandre Wahrhaftig, Helena Ungaretti & Miguel Antunes Ramos

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
13.7.2024

Dr. Bein are releasing their studio recording Thörn @ .mpeg

.mpeg, Performance, Screening

The Commune @ WIN/WIN by Cultural Foundation of Saxony

Further Recognition, Exhibition, Screening
14.6.–13.7.2024

.mpeg presents: in the middle of all things by Nick Teplov

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
Video Installation, Documentary

Rekapitulieren

Juliane Jaschnow 2019 15 min

18.–21.6.2024

Once we were pitmen nomated for the German Documentary Award

Further Recognition, Screening
14.5.–14.6.2024

.mpeg presents: Liquid Consumption by Ivelina Ivanova

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
11.5.2024

FILZ Double Feature @ dokKa 11

Screening
12.4.–11.5.2024

.mpeg presents: Valley Pride von Lukas Marxt

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
19.3.2024

World Premiere LA DUNA @ Visions du Réel

Premiere, Screening
Documentary, Experimental

Contact

Jana Magdalena Keuchel & Holger Reissig 2015 7 min

12.3.–11.4.2024

.mpeg presents: After the desert goat by Hinda Weiss

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
4.3.–8.4.2024

Once we were pitmen wins in Riga & Festivaltour

Further Recognition, Screening
29.2.2024

Once we were pitmen in cinema

Screening
11.2.–10.3.2024

.mpeg presents: Ongoing by Hayahisa Tomiyasu

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
08.02.-10.03.2024

Exhibition by Juliane Jaschnow at IDEAL art space

Exhibition
Documentary, Experimental

In the middle of all things

Nick Teplov 2013 10 min

18.1.2024

Once we were pitmen @ Solothurn

Screening
20.11.—20.12.2023

.mpeg presents a short film reel on the subject of «energy»

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
Online

Web documentary In anderen Umständen

FILZ recommends, Online
2.–10.12.2023

Safari(Browser)_The_Nature_ofmy_Computer.mov @ Beijing International Short Film Festival

Screening
Documentary

To Show or not to Show

Jana Magdalena Keuchel & Katharina Knust 2023 103 min

20.11.—20.12.2023

.mpeg presents: Bilateria by Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition, Online
22.11.2023-11.2.2024

Eine unsichere Bank awarded with the 14th Aenne Biermann Prize

Further Recognition, Exhibition, Performance
6.11.2023

Video interview with FILZ for shortfilm.de

FILZ collective, Talk, Online
23.9.2022–8.1.2023

Rekapitulieren @ Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Screening, Talk
19.10.2023–1.11.2023

Once we were pitmen @ 47. Mostra IFF (São Paulo)

Screening
Experimental

Today no shooting

Anna Friedrich 2016 9 min

15.10.–31.12.2023

Scholarships for Ukrainian artists

FILZ supports
13.10.2023

PARASOUND with Jacob Kirkegaard

PARADOKS, Performance
15.10.2023

Coming off the Real Time, for a While in der Ausstellung Der Welpe schmeckt den Kindern nicht

Exhibition, Screening, Talk
5.—22.10.2023

.mpeg presents: disarming by Emanuel Gollob

.mpeg, PARADOKS, Exhibition, Screening
5.–22.10.2023

PARADOKS – at the edges of documentary

PARADOKS, Exhibition, FILZ collective
Video Installation, Documentary

BOY//Bacha Posh

Yalda Afsah & Ginan Seidl 2015 30 min

8.9.—6.10.2023

.mpeg presents: SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE by Neozoon

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
6.9.2023

Hic Hunt Dracones and The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds @ Ars Electronica 2023

Exhibition
2.9.2023

Coming off the real time, for a while & Echo @ LAND IN SICHT

Screening
21. - 29.7.2023

Safari(Browser)_The_Nature_ofmy_Computer.mov @ 19th Lago Film Fest

Screening
15.3.—15.4.2023

.mpeg presents the plant based double Organic Techno and Power Plant

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
Experimental

LIKE

Susanna Berivan & Andrea Rüthel 2017 5 min

15.3.—15.4.2023

.mpeg presents: Das narzisstische Publikum by Mara Genschel

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
4.5.2023

Once we were pitmen @ Dokfest München

Screening, Premiere
1.5.2023

To Show or not to Show feiert TV Premiere bei ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel

Premiere, TV, Online
15.3.—15.4.2023

.mpeg presents: halb leer | half empty by Mark Hornbogen

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
1.—15.2.2023

.mpeg presents: untitled (wind turbines) by Mark Hornbogen

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
Experimental, Documentary

Palatka

Clara Wieck 2015 8 min

14.1.2023

It is a knife because – Film und experimental discussion @ KV Leipzig

Screening, Talk, FILZ collective
28.11.–16.12.2022

.mpeg presents: Коли старі жінки співають, їх голоси лунають у Всесвіті by Dmytro Starusiev

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
5.–7.12.2022

Umbruch im Film – Industry Meeting, Symposium and Film Programme

Screening, Talk
28.11.–16.12.2022

.mpeg presents: Tuj طج by Khaled Abdulwahed

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
24.11.2022

Artist Talk with Arina Adju at .mpeg

.mpeg, Screening, Talk
Video Installation, Experimental

J-N-N / ج- ن- ن

Ginan Seidl 2025 19 min

13.–17.11.2022

Safari(Browser)_The_Nature_ofmy_Computer.mov @ microscope Gallery New York

Screening, Online

Collective Creativity – 13 Attempts to Hold Your Breath @ unicato

Screening, TV, Online, FILZ collective
5.11.2022

Hands On – analogue film workshop with Matti Sutcliff

Workshop, FILZ recommends, FILZ collective
4.11.2022

Dreaming Film @ KV Leipzig

Screening, Talk, FILZ collective
3.9. – 8.10.2022

.mpeg presents: All roads lead to Afrin von Arina Adju

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
22.10.2022

Sound performance by Anna Korsun & Sergey Khismatov at .mpeg

.mpeg, Performance, Screening
Documentary

The Cameras’ Shadow

Katharina Wittmann 2016 13 min

3.9. – 8.10.2022

.mpeg presents: Rotonda by Sergey Khismatov

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
23.9.2022–8.1.2023

Rekapitulieren at Fotograf Festival #12

Exhibition, Talk
8.–18.9.2022

GEGENkino #8

FILZ recommends
3.9. – 8.10.2022

.mpeg presents: Untitled Sequence of Gaps by Vika Kirchenbauer

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
Documentary, Experimental

Spin

Ginan Seidl 2017 80 min

12.8.2022

Echo at Bewegliche Bilder

Screening
10.6.–8.7.2022

.mpeg presents: China Not China by Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
2.7.2022

Kurzsüchtig Leipzig: Special Mention and Audience Award for 13 attempts to hold your breath

FILZ collective, Further Recognition, Screening
26.6.2022

Hand and Machine: Experimental 16mm films by Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie

Screening, Talk, Workshop
10.6.–8.7.2022

.mpeg presents: Palatka by Clara Wieck

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
17.3.–14.4.2022

.mpeg presents: Notes from Underground by Uli Golub

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
Experimental, Documentary

rotation

Ginan Seidl & Clara Wieck 2013 8 min

19.4.2022

Kino in Bewegung: Benefit for filmmakers from Ukraine

FILZ recommends
8.4.2022

Safari(Browser)_The_Nature_ofmy_Computer.mov at Go Short Nijmegen

Screening, Premiere
1.4.2022

Films that heal: The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds at Frauen Film Fest

Screening
17.3.–14.4.2022

.mpeg presents: Sisters by Anna Scherbyna & Valentina Petrova

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
Experimental, Animation

a|c|g|t

Nick Teplov 2017 7 min

10.3.2022

Open Letter – Leipzig Initiative for Solidarity and Open Culture LISTOK

FILZ supports, FILZ collective
26.2.–17.3.2022

paradoks @ WRO Art Center in Wrocław

PARADOKS, Exhibition, FILZ collective
16.2.–15.3.2022

.mpeg presents: Gaze by Kinshuk Surjan

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
24.1.2022

FILZ presents a Short Film Program at Soundwatch @ Vorspiel transmediale/CTM in Berlin

FILZ collective, Screening
18.1.–15.2.2022

.mpeg presents: Here by Sandra Barth & Katharina Knust

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
17.12.2021–14.1.2022

.mpeg presents: Arrangements*A by Elena Friedrich

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
Documentary, Experimental

13 Attempts to Hold Your Breath

Emerson Culurgioni, Florian Fischer, Anna Friedrich, Juliane Jaschnow, Jana Keuchel, Kathrin Lemcke, Jonas Matauschek, Andrea Rüthel, Stefanie Schroeder, Ginan Seidl, Nick Teplov, Clara Wieck, Katharina Wittmann 2020 15 min

18.11.–16.12.2021

.mpeg presents: Chepu by Nicolás Rupcich

.mpeg, Screening, Exhibition
3.11.2021

paradoks presents: short films WRO ON TOUR: INTERSPACES

PARADOKS, Screening
1.11.2021

paradoks presents: Forensickness & Bottled Songs 1 + 2

PARADOKS, Screening
28.10.2021

paradoks presents: Purple Sea & Shipwreck at the treshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015

PARADOKS, Screening, Talk
Documentary

Coming off the real time, for a while

Anna Friedrich 2019 62 min

24.–25.10.2021

paradoks – Artist Talks

PARADOKS, Talk
23.10.–14.11.2021

paradoks – at the edges of documentary

PARADOKS, Exhibition, FILZ collective
02.10-03.10.2021

Performance Dead Angle Defect at IDEAL Art Space Leipzig

Performance
02.10-03.10.2021

.mpeg opening

.mpeg, Premiere, Screening, Exhibition, FILZ collective

Kiosk Nonfiktional - current positions in documentary film art

Exhibition, Screening
Documentary, Experimental

Imaging an image

Stefanie Schroeder 2014 18 min

Ausbeutung, oder wie man die Oberfläche durchbricht at LE PRINTEMPS DE SEPTEMBRE in Toulouse

Exhibition, Screening
11.9.2021

Krawall im All and Friends in Hamburg

Exhibition, Screening
25.9.2021

parasound III

PARADOKS, Screening

Rekapitulieren at Kulturhaus Nitzschka

Exhibition, Screening

She Works Hard at The End of the Fucking Work in Berlin

Exhibition, Screening
Experimental, Animation

The Wolf Fearing the Wolf

Juliane Jaschnow 2014 5 min

8. – 28.4.2021

13 Attempts to Hold Your Breath and A | C | G | T screened online at Cinématèque Leipzig

Online, Screening, FILZ collective
7.3.2021

Online Screening She Works Hard at Frauen*streik Augsburg

Screening, Online
4.3.2021

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ ˌdɔɪ̯ ʧlant] in the film programm "Malgré les trous de mémoires", curated by Maya Schweizer

Screening, Online
3.3.2021

Once We Were Pitmen (WT) is awarded with Berlinale Kompagnon Fellowship 2021

Further Recognition
28.01.-17.02.2021

Coming off the Real Time, for a While im Online-Kino der Cinémathèque Leipzig

Online, Screening
27.12.2020

Audio Piece Deep South to be aired on Radio Corax

Online, Premiere
Documentary

No Sex Please

Florian Fischer 2017 73 min

30.11.-31.12.2020

Exhibition by Juliane Jaschnow at IDEAL art space

Exhibition
27.10.2020

Girls/Museum by Shelly Silver celebrates its premiere at DOK Leipzig

FILZ recommends
21.10.2020

parasound II - at the edges of documentary

PARADOKS, Screening
20.9.2020

VISUAL TRUTHS #4 shows Model of Continuation by Lina Selander

FILZ recommends
Documentary

The Vagabond's Garden

Anna Friedrich 2024 86 min

18.–25.9.2020

LIKE online at Mana Contemporary

Online, Screening
2.–12.9.2020

Once we were pitmen at Venice Gap Financing Market 2020

Screening
8.8.2020

Coming off the Real Time, for a While + Soundperformance at Schauspielhaus Erfurt

Screening
25.7.2020

Kick-off event Kino in Bewegung 2020

FILZ recommends
12.7.–10.10.2020

Natures/Naturen – Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell

Exhibition

Videoinstallation bei Sächsischer Landesausstellung für Industriekultur

Exhibition, Screening
Animation

MOUSEION

Clara Wieck 2016 5 min

11.7.2020

VISUAL TRUTHS #3 presents Echo Chamber by Korpys/Löffler at IDEAL open air cinema

FILZ recommends
1.–30.6.2020

werkleitz Videorama shows 13 Attempts To Hold Your Breath throughout June

FILZ collective, Screening
7.5.–31.8.2020

Rekapitulieren at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Exhibition
10.5.2020

The Immortals #co2020 by Paula Ábalos until May 10th at KUB Gallery

FILZ recommends
Documentary, Experimental

LAST YEAR IN UTOPIA

Jana Magdalena Keuchel & Katharina Knust 2017 72 min

25.4.2020

13 Attempts To Hold Your Breath premiers on MDR Online

FILZ collective, TV, Online, Screening
25.4.2020

Purple Sea at Vision du Réel - online!

FILZ recommends
23.4.2020

Mihuț e mort at European Media Art Festival

Screening
29.3.2020

BOY online screening

Online, Exhibition
13.3.2020

BOY presented at the exhibition «Bodies That Matter» at NRW-Forum Duesseldorf

Exhibition
6.3.–8.3.2020

FILZ think tank in the countryside

FILZ collective
Documentary

ONCE WE WERE PITMEN

Christian Johannes Koch & Jonas Matauschek 2023 108 min

27.2.2020

HABITAT in Mücheln

Screening
10.2.2020

Klubkinoklub: Katharina Wittmann shows Caché as part of the program «Becoming a Witness»

FILZ recommends
29.12.2019

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds will be shown at the Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig

Screening
21.11.2019

Video installation by Juliane Jaschnow at NRW-Forum Duesseldorf

Exhibition
2.11.2019

parasound - audio-visual performance, short movies and club night

Screening
Film Essay, Documentary, Experimental

Safari(Browser)_The_Nature_ofmy_Computer.mov

Megan Dieudonné & Andrea Rüthel 2021 17 min

31.10.2019

World Premiere of Coming Off The Real Time, For A While at DOK Leipzig

Screening, Premiere
28.10.–2.11.2019

paradoks – film program

PARADOKS, Screening
27.10.2019

counter fake news – Activism and subversive Strategies in Documentary

PARADOKS, Talk
27.10.–9.11.2019

paradoks – at the edges of documentary

PARADOKS, Exhibition, FILZ collective
22.10.2019

She Works Hard invited to Nuremberg for «Feminism or Barbarism II» film program

Screening
Video Installation, Documentary, Experimental

40h, 2 month max.

Stefanie Schroeder 2017 44 min

6.10.2019

Screening of Last Year in Utopia marks the beginning of VISUAL TRUTHS event series at IDEAL Leipzig

FILZ recommends, Screening
25.9.2019

HABITAT at the Intercultural Week in Merseburg

Screening
16.9.2019

Special screening of FILZ films at Khorshid Independent and Experimental Film Festival

Screening, FILZ collective
5.9.2019

Screening of Umbra at the Gallery for Contemporary Art GFZK Leipzig

Screening
1.9.2019

LIKE online

Online
Experimental, Documentary

Umbra

Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell 2019 20 min

FILZ meeting in Rehmsdorf

FILZ collective
11.7.2019

SPIN and Backyard will be shown at Leipzig Luru Cinema, as part of the «Vergessene Aufklärungen» exhibition

Screening
13.6.2019

Last Year in Utopia will be presented at the 365 Tage Dokumentarfilm program in Kassel

Screening
1.6.2019

Kino in Bewegung

FILZ recommends
14.5.2019

She Works Hard by Kathrin Lemcke will be shown at the «Can't Take My Eyes Off You» exhibition in Leipzig

Exhibition, Screening
Experimental, Documentary

Echo

Katharina Wittmann 2019 12 min

5.5.2019

FILZ joins the Radical Film Network Meeting in Berlin

FILZ collective, Talk
17.4.2019

Screening of HABITAT marks the opening of «Schicht für Schicht» in Leipzig

Screening
11.4.2019

Fancy a cinematic challenge? GEGENkino#6 starts with a brilliant program!

FILZ recommends
31.3.2019

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds invited to the World Film Festival in Tartu

Screening
Video Installation

BLACKOUT

Clara Wieck 2020 16 min

17.3.2019

Last year in Utopia will be presented at the Nonfiktionale Festival in Bad Aibling

Screening
5.3.2019

She Works Hard at Luru Cinema, accompanying a discussion about future perspectives of female artists

Screening, Talk
16.2.2019

Umbra by Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell awarded with Golden Bear for Best Short at Berlinale Festival!

Further Recognition
12.2.2019

Umbra by Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell premiers at Berlinale International Film Festival

Screening, Premiere
16.1.2019

Filmmaker Katharina Knust provides insight into Last year in Utopia on national radio chanel Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Online, Talk
26.11.2018

Last Year in Utopia wins Basel Film and Media Art Award!

Further Recognition
Video Installation

Ausbeutung, oder wie man die Oberfläche durchbricht

Emerson Culurgioni, Paula Abalos, Charlotte Eifler, Deborah Jeromin, Mikhail Tolmachev, Clemens von Wedemeyer 2020 15 min

22.11.2018

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds will be part of November Film Festival in London

Screening
23.12.2018

Last Year in Utopia celebrates Germany Premiere at Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis

Screening, Premiere
20.11.2018

GEGENkino – pre-filmfestival

Screening, FILZ collective, Talk
11.10.2018

The 4-channel video installation HABITAT wins G2 Kunsthalle prize for HGB graduates

Further Recognition
8.10.2018

HABITAT is presented as part of the International Competition at Provinziale 2018

Screening
Experimental, Documentary

LA DUNA

Emerson Culurgioni & Stefanie Schroeder 2024 93 min

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds: Further screenings in september

Screening
18.8.2018

She Works Hard by Kathrin Lemcke will be presented at Long Night of Films Festival Berlin

Screening
14.7.2018

LEUNA at Kurzfilmwanderung Leipzig

Screening
13.7.2018

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] by Juliane Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder at Syros International Film Festival

Screening
Documentary, Experimental

Moretones

Ginan Seidl & Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda 2023 89 min

28.6.2018

Rotation at silent green summer cinema in Berlin: the alternative sports film event

Screening
12.6.2018

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds wins the German Competition at Hamburg International Short Film Festival!

Further Recognition
9.6.2018

25 Jahre Werkleitz / 101 Auszeichnungen at Luchs Cinema Halle

FILZ recommends, Screening
5.6.2018

She Works Hard screened at #wessenfreiheit at the Academy of Visual Arts HGB Leipzig

Screening
10.6.2018

Last Year in Utopia at Sheffield Doc/Fest

Screening
Video Installation, Documentary

HABITAT

Emerson Culurgioni & Jonas Matauschek 2017 80 min

40h, 2 months max. by Stefanie Schroeder from May 4th - 27th, 2018 at the Bienne Festival of Photography

Screening
4.5.2018

HABITAT by Emerson Culurgioni & Jonas Matauschek celebrates Germany Premiere at Filmkunstfest MV

Screening, Premiere
25.4.2018

Last Year in Utopia at Crossing Europe Festival Linz

Screening
2.5.2018

Screening of She Works Hard as part of the event series «WORK.Work.work»

Screening
23.4.2018

The Effect Of Cannonry On Thunderclouds will be shown at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg

Screening
Documentary, Experimental

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ ˌdɔi ʧlant]

Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder 2015 13 min

27.4.2018

[ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Screening
7.4.2018

Two FILZ films selected for Leipzig based Short Film Festival Kurzsuechtig

Screening
20.3.2018

Rotation at Tampere Film Festival

Screening
20.3.2018

World Premiere of Last Year in Utopia at the CPH:DOX Festival – nominated for the main award

Screening, Premiere
2.2.2018

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds will be shown at transmediale Berlin

Screening
8.1.2018

Temporal Disorder – Part #6: Angela Melitopoulos, January 8th, 2018 / GFZK Leipzig

FILZ recommends
Documentary

LEUNA

Emerson Culurgioni & Jonas Matauschek 2014 14 min

3.11.2017

The Effect of Cannonry on Thunderclouds celebrates its World Premiere at DOK Leipzig

Screening, Premiere
31.10.2017

World Premiere at DOK Leipzig: No Sex Please by Florian Fischer

Screening, Premiere
15.10.2017

She Works Hard by Kathrin Lemcke premiers at Moviemento cinema in Berlin

Screening, Premiere
24.4.2017

World Premiere of HABITAT at Vision du Reél Film Festival in Nyon

Screening, Premiere


MOUSEION

Clara Wieck, 2016, 5 min Animation

Screenings
Acquisition by the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig

Spin

The Cameras’ Shadow

FILZ Imprint Instagram Facebook .mpeg moving pictures experimental garage PARADOKS Festival for Video Art