Michael Busch

BIOGRAPHIE

born 1962, experimental filmmaker, musician. Studied experimental film at Universitiy of Fine Arts, Berlin with professor Heinz Emigholz. Returned later to teach the experimental film class from 2007 and 2013. worked as a film dramaturg/film curator at Volksbühne Berlin from 2003 to 2017. Makes music, experimental films, film performances. for example Hyperbooks (D 1998, 16mm, 38min), Virtual Vampire (D 1999, 35mm, 92min), Sieben Himmel/ Seven Heavens (D 2005, 35mm, 94min), Das Elektrische Paradies/The Electric Paradise (D 2010, mixed media, 210min), The Scelsi Tapes (D 2018, Live Film, 60min), Ich möchte ein Eisberg sein (D 2019-2020, Live Film, 47 min) How Long Is Now, (D 2020,super8 and video, 80min) his works have been shown in art spaces and at International Film Festivals like Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, at Reina Sophia, Madrid, at art biennale Sao Paulo, at Torino International Film Festival, San Francisco, New York, Edinburgh, also at national film festivals in Germany like Max Ophüls Preis, Filmfest München, Short Film Days Oberhausen and EMAF Festival Osnabrück. he lives and works in Berlin

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