Thorsten Fleisch

Thorsten Fleisch

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.

  • Title: Thorsten Fleisch
  • Popularity: 0.132
  • Known For: Directing
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  • Place of Birth: Koblenz, Germany
  • Homepage: https://fleischfilm.com
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Thorsten Fleisch Movies

  • 1998
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    Super 8 Self Portrait

    Super 8 Self Portrait

    1 1998 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Camera Annihilator

    Camera Annihilator

    1 1997 HD

    "I destroy an old Super 8 camera for science’s sake." –T.F.

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  • 2014
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    X-Rayed Camera

    X-Rayed Camera

    1 2014 HD

    A commissioned piece for the project 100x100=900 (100 video artists to tell a century).

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  • 1998
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    Flex Action

    Flex Action

    1 1998 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Más fuerte

    Más fuerte

    1 2020 HD

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  • 1997
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    Camera Annihilator

    Camera Annihilator

    1 1997 HD

    "I destroy an old Super 8 camera for science’s sake." –T.F.

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  • 2014
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    X-Rayed Camera

    X-Rayed Camera

    1 2014 HD

    A commissioned piece for the project 100x100=900 (100 video artists to tell a century).

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  • 1998
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    Super 8 Self Portrait

    Super 8 Self Portrait

    1 1998 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Food Fight Berlin

    Food Fight Berlin

    1 2007 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    Flexcam

    Flexcam

    1 1998 HD

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

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  • 2000
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    Superbitmapping

    Superbitmapping

    1 2000 HD

    A projected text is going through two transformations in terms of presenting information. At first one is able to understand its meaning. However, in...

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  • 1998
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    Flex Action

    Flex Action

    1 1998 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Energie!

    Energie!

    6.7 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Hex Suffice Cache Ten

    Hex Suffice Cache Ten

    7 2011 HD

    A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future. Suddenly interferences from sub-particle proliferation...

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  • 2004
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    Gestalt

    Gestalt

    6 2004 HD

    Four-dimensional quaternions (fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Instead of modeling objects of human...

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  • 2004
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    Kosmos

    Kosmos

    1 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Dromosphere

    Dromosphere

    6.7 2010 HD

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

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  • 1999
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    K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy

    K.I.L.L. – Kinetic Image Laboratory/Lobotomy

    7.5 1999 HD

    An accumulation of 180 different perspectives of a bank’s skyscraper. Each perspective takes just one frame.At first there is chaos, then...

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  • 2000
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    Silver Screen

    Silver Screen

    5.5 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Wound Footage

    Wound Footage

    6 2003 HD

    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....

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  • 2003
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    Friendly Fire

    Friendly Fire

    7 2003 HD

    Burned filmstrips meet light and invade the screen with structures of residue, ashes, flames and destruction. New landscapes appear in a state of...

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  • 1999
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    Bloodlust

    Bloodlust

    7.3 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    Más fuerte

    Más fuerte

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2014
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    Picture Particles

    Picture Particles

    8.5 2014 HD

    Individual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents. Repetition is...

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  • 2021
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    Deep Learning Death

    Deep Learning Death

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Deep Learning Death

    Deep Learning Death

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Deep Learning Death

    Deep Learning Death

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Deep Learning Death

    Deep Learning Death

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Astrogolem

    Astrogolem

    1 2023 HD

    "Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant...

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  • 2023
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    Astrogolem

    Astrogolem

    1 2023 HD

    "Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant...

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  • 2009
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    Der Dosenjob

    Der Dosenjob

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2015
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    Love Songs for Scumbags

    Love Songs for Scumbags

    2 2015 HD

    Ex-American G.I returns to Germany after 20 years to make a film and oddly enough winds up homeless on the streets of Berlin. While there, he ends up...

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  • 2023
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    Astrogolem

    Astrogolem

    1 2023 HD

    "Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant...

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  • 2023
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    Astrogolem

    Astrogolem

    1 2023 HD

    "Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant...

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  • 2019
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    Color Glitch Oracle

    Color Glitch Oracle

    1 2019 HD

    The first webseries to alter your mind.

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  • 2007
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    Energie!

    Energie!

    6.7 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Skinflick

    Skinflick

    5 2002 HD

    Three different levels of skin working with film / film working with skin: - fingerprints on clear leader - carefully arranged successive skin...

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  • 2019
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    Flesh City

    Flesh City

    5.5 2019 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    Flesh City

    Flesh City

    5.5 2019 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    Pattern Cognition

    Pattern Cognition

    6 2019 HD

    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...

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