Film Archive

Jahr

DOK Neuland 2024
Filmstill AR Character Run
AR Character Run
BARBAR
Motion is the art that binds the changing characters of this AR-project, which are drawn by exhibition visitors. An artwork created by all, always fluctuating.
2022
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AR Character Run

AR Character Run
BARBAR
DOK Neuland 2024
XR
Germany
2022
5 minutes
without dialogue

Art is often in the unseen, and in this AR project art is in the motion. Motion is what brings together the changing characters, drawn by exhibition visitors and updated daily. By bringing anyone and everyone’s artwork to the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, this piece challenges the notion of authorship in the art space. Come draw!

Dana Melaver

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Director
BARBAR
Production Company
BARBAR
DOK Neuland 2025
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Blindspot
Justin Urbach
A hypnotizing audiovisual experience filmed with neuromorphic event-based camera systems, which are able to see beyond human vision. Sensorial, scientific, and sweeping.
2025
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Blindspot

Blindspot
Justin Urbach
DOK Neuland 2025
XR
Germany
2025
21 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An empirical dream of enhanced vision, of seeing with a machine. “Blindspot” is a poetic unfolding of what we could but cannot yet see, filmed using neuromorphic event-based camera systems which are able to visualise beyond our fallible eyes. Unfolding as a dance between human and machine, the film imagines the future of vision as hybridised.

Dana Melaver

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Director
Justin Urbach
Cinematographer
Justin Urbach
Sound
Alexander Koenig, William East
Coding
Alexander Koenig
Creative Technologist
Alexander Koenig
Key Collaborator
Friedhelm Hamann
Performer
Ivan Malek
DOK Neuland 2025
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For Iron I Gave Gold
Keke Opata
Revealing the toxicity of e-waste and fast fashion through technology and fabric, this work reflects on the devastation European consumption imposes on the Ghanian coast.
2025
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For Iron I Gave Gold

For Iron I Gave Gold
Keke Opata
DOK Neuland 2025
XR
Germany
2025
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

What is sacrificed in the name of progress, and who is the one asked to bear this weight? Reflecting on the devastation European e-waste imposes on Ghana, this work questions what physical matter is sacrificed there to ensure digital experiences here. Created by fashion designer and 3D artist Keke Opata, this piece bridges fashion, technology and visual storytelling.

Dana Melaver

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Director
Keke Opata
DOK Neuland 2025
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Geomancy
Sybil Montet
An experimental science fiction film which constantly changes with the weather, responding to real time data from around the world, listening and reacting to nature.
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Geomancy

Geomancy
Sybil Montet
DOK Neuland 2025
XR
France,
Germany
2024
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

A cyborg of a film, the work is a living interaction of computer graphics and nature. Shaped in real time by weather patterns, the film’s rhythm and sequencing is tied with planetary data from over forty locations around the world. In the spirit of geomantic practice, this truly magical experience is about listening and reacting to Earth’s stories.

Dana Melaver

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Director
Sybil Montet
Producer
Sybil Montet
Sound
Davor Bokhari
Coding
Phil Rohr
Interactive Design
Pavel Seldemirov
Production Company
ifa Visual Arts
DOK Neuland 2024
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Reconstruction Home
Antonia Nestler
A broken Syrian home, torn down by war, put back together through AR and the recollections of its former inhabitants. A reflection on the sense of home and the loss of it.
2024
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Reconstruction Home

Reconstruction Home
Antonia Nestler
DOK Neuland 2024
XR
Germany
2024
10 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
German, English

A white model of a home stands broken, shelled out, is re-animated with augmented reality. Through the recollections of two Syrians and a touch of animation, home becomes reconstructed. While this project is tied directly to the war in Syria, the model stands as a universal reminder of the horrors of war in general, as well as the power of memory.

Dana Melaver

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Director
Antonia Nestler
Sound
Andreea Cristina
Production Company
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
AR Developer
Luca Paganelli, Andreea Cristina
Concept
Antonia Nestler
DOK Neuland 2025
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Volume
Niklas Poweleit
A train ride into abstraction through degenerating AI imagery. On the edge of hallucination, the film is an implosion of reality as we’ve come to picture it.
2025
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Volume

Volume
Niklas Poweleit
DOK Neuland 2025
XR
Germany
2025
10 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A train ride into abstraction created with increasingly abstract AI-generated imagery, this film is a simple yet mesmerising gesture which explores the essentials of the digital image. Hypnotic and thoroughly immersive, the experience highlights AI images as more than replicas of reality, but rather as abstract and architectural structures to explore.

Dana Melaver

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Director
Niklas Poweleit
Sound Design
Tommaso Barbaro
Artistic Design
Johanna Schäfers