Thorsten Fleisch

Astrogolem (2023)

"Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension. Desperate to f ...

Deep Learning Death (2021)

Vilmos and his dad work as social media cleaners. During their work they are confronted with the worst of humanity, in picture form. When they try to build an AI to do their work for them the AI gets a taste of death and can't wait to try it out in the rea ...

Más fuerte (2020)

Color Glitch Oracle (2019)

The first webseries to alter your mind. ...

Pattern Cognition (2019)

When you look at a screen for a long time, the screen looks into you, too. It's late. You've been juggling numbers all day. The screen seems to vibrate before your eyes. You close your eyes. The afterimage on your retina continues pulsating in over-saturat ...

Flesh City (2019)

A young couple stumbles into a dark, incomprehensible world in the basement of a nihilistic night club, opening a portal to mutation and mayhem. ...

Picture Particles (2014)

Individual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents. Repetition is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion, achieving a golden ratio in the mind's eye. ...

Hex Suffice Cache Ten (2011)

A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future. Suddenly interferences from sub-particle proliferation occur within the protagonist's body, a transformation can't be avoided. This exploration of cinematic space ...

Dromosphere (2010)

A meditation on speed. The ephemeral phenomenon becomes palpable as a speed sculpture begins a relativity drive along space-time avenues. ...

Energie! (2007)

The tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For 'energie!' an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems ...

Food Fight Berlin (2007)

A few impressions of the annual Berlin food fight, either in 2007 or 2008. ...

Gestalt (2004)

Four-dimensional quaternions (fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Instead of modeling objects of human imagination the realm of mathematics is explored. Only the variables of one formula (x[n+1]=x[n]^p-c) were changed. ...

Kosmos (2004)

The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages? Through growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided ...

Friendly Fire (2003)

Burned filmstrips meet light and invade the screen with structures of residue, ashes, flames and destruction. New landscapes appear in a state of disintegration through fire. The former carrier of conserved imagery is now in full bloom of organic splendor. ...

Wound Footage (2003)

The source material is a found footage super 8 film. The visual carrier was attacked in a multitude of ways. It was scratched, cut open and violated. I captured an attempt to screen it. There it burned and was destroyed by the projector. Sorry little film. ...

Skinflick (2002)

Three different levels of skin working with film / film working with skin: - fingerprints on clear leader - carefully arranged successive skin prints - snapshots of light-painted skin becoming leather The images are accompanied by soundscapes using aur ...

Silver Screen (2000)

A film made entirely with foil paper, exploring its possibilities in the realm of the audiovisual. For each frame a new foil paper landscape was created changing the parameters of light and perspective. In order to match the rapid flow of images several fo ...

Superbitmapping (2000)

A projected text is going through two transformations in terms of presenting information. At first one is able to understand its meaning. However, in the second stage, the text has been transformed into digital language which can only be read by a computer ...

Bloodlust (1999)

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker's blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the flesh and ...

K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy (1999)

An accumulation of 180 different perspectives of a bank's skyscraper. Each perspective takes just one frame.At first there is chaos, then systems of visual organisation develop. The sound consists of a sampled phrase meaning: "Our power is boundless and ou ...

Super 8 Self Portrait (1998)

"Me in my room in Frankfurt, ca. 1997. I used to throw knives at the painting in the background." –T.F. ...

Flexcam (1998)

"Another investigation in camera destruction. This one is more meditative, as it was shot at 64 frames per second." –T.F. ...

Flex Action (1998)

"Super 8 destruction orgy. Different information carriers are attacked." –T.F. ...

Más fuerte (2020)

Super 8 Self Portrait (1998)

"Me in my room in Frankfurt, ca. 1997. I used to throw knives at the painting in the background." –T.F. ...

Flex Action (1998)

"Super 8 destruction orgy. Different information carriers are attacked." –T.F. ...