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Thorsten Fleisch

Birthplace:
Koblenz, Germany

Biography from TheMovieDB

Thorsten Fleisch was born in 1972 in Koblenz, Germany. He made his first film experiments with his dad’s Super 8 camera while still in school. He studied experimental film with Peter Kubelka at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and works with digital and analog film. With materials such as the body, crystals, fire, and electricity, he has worked directly on 16mm filmstrips. Crystals are grown on the film and 30,000 volts burn through photo paper. The results are poetic and abstract visual systems with references to catharsis, the cosmos, and the universe. In 2003 Fleisch received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria) for his computer-animated film Gestalt. High voltage is the center of his work Energie!, for which he has won international acclaim. He created commissioned work for Gaspar Noé, Red Bull, and Basement Jaxx, among others. His films have received several awards, showing at festivals worldwide including New York Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and San Francisco International Film Festival. He lives and works in Berlin.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Animation:
2023  Astrogolem

Director:
1997  Camera Annihilator
1998  Flex Action
1998  Flexcam
1998  Super 8 Self Portrait
1999  Bloodlust
1999  K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy
2000  Silver Screen
2000  Superbitmapping
2002  Skinflick
2003  Friendly Fire
2003  Wound Footage
2004  Gestalt
2004  Kosmos
2007  Energie!
2007  Food Fight Berlin
2009  Der Dosenjob
2010  Dromosphere
2011  Hex Suffice Cache Ten
2014  Picture Particles
2014  X-Rayed Camera
2019  Color Glitch Oracle
2019  Flesh City
2019  Pattern Cognition
2020  Más fuerte
2021  Deep Learning Death
2023  Astrogolem

Idea:
1997  Camera Annihilator
1998  Flex Action
1998  Flexcam
1998  Super 8 Self Portrait
1999  Bloodlust
1999  K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy
2000  Silver Screen
2000  Superbitmapping
2002  Skinflick
2003  Friendly Fire
2003  Wound Footage
2004  Gestalt
2004  Kosmos
2007  Energie!
2007  Food Fight Berlin
2009  Der Dosenjob
2010  Dromosphere
2011  Hex Suffice Cache Ten
2014  Picture Particles
2014  X-Rayed Camera
2019  Color Glitch Oracle
2019  Flesh City
2019  Pattern Cognition
2020  Más fuerte
2021  Deep Learning Death
2023  Astrogolem

Producer:
1997  Camera Annihilator
1998  Flex Action
1998  Flexcam
1998  Super 8 Self Portrait
1999  Bloodlust
1999  K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy
2000  Silver Screen
2000  Superbitmapping
2002  Skinflick
2003  Friendly Fire
2003  Wound Footage
2004  Gestalt
2004  Kosmos
2007  Energie!
2007  Food Fight Berlin
2009  Der Dosenjob
2010  Dromosphere
2011  Hex Suffice Cache Ten
2014  Picture Particles
2014  X-Rayed Camera
2015  Love Songs for Scumbags
2019  Color Glitch Oracle
2019  Flesh City
2019  Pattern Cognition
2020  Más fuerte
2021  Deep Learning Death
2023  Astrogolem

Story:
1997  Camera Annihilator
1998  Flex Action
1998  Flexcam
1998  Super 8 Self Portrait
1999  Bloodlust
1999  K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy
2000  Silver Screen
2000  Superbitmapping
2002  Skinflick
2003  Friendly Fire
2003  Wound Footage
2004  Gestalt
2004  Kosmos
2007  Energie!
2007  Food Fight Berlin
2009  Der Dosenjob
2010  Dromosphere
2011  Hex Suffice Cache Ten
2014  Picture Particles
2014  X-Rayed Camera
2015  Love Songs for Scumbags
2019  Color Glitch Oracle
2019  Flesh City
2019  Pattern Cognition
2020  Más fuerte
2021  Deep Learning Death
2023  Astrogolem

Writer:
1997  Camera Annihilator
1998  Flex Action
1998  Flexcam
1998  Super 8 Self Portrait
1999  Bloodlust
1999  K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy
2000  Silver Screen
2000  Superbitmapping
2002  Skinflick
2003  Friendly Fire
2003  Wound Footage
2004  Gestalt
2004  Kosmos
2007  Energie!
2007  Food Fight Berlin
2009  Der Dosenjob
2010  Dromosphere
2011  Hex Suffice Cache Ten
2014  Picture Particles
2014  X-Rayed Camera
2015  Love Songs for Scumbags
2019  Color Glitch Oracle
2019  Flesh City
2019  Pattern Cognition
2020  Más fuerte
2021  Deep Learning Death
2023  Astrogolem

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