Biographie:

Manu Luksch is filmmaker who works outside the frame. The moving image, and in particular the evolution of film in the digital or networked age, has been a core theme of her works. Characteristic is the blurring of boundaries between linear and hypertextual narrative, directed work and multiple authorship, post-produced and self-generative pieces. 

Her seminal concept sci-fi film is Faceless (2007) compiled from surveillance video footage recovered under the UK’s Data Protection Act. The film treats CCTV images as 'legal readymades', and its scenario derives from the legal properties of the image. The film was narrated by British actor Tilda Swinton, and was translated into 12 languages. Manu also collaborated with Swinton as voice artist for her film project DREAMS REWIRED (2015).

Filmographie:

CONTAGIOUS WHISPER UK/USA 2020, DV, 8min ALGO-RHYTHM AT/UK 2019, DCP, 14 min GROUND TRUTH. FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE multi-cam live broadcast and event design. AT 2017, 60min 3RD QUARTELY REPORT AT/UK 2016 double projection. HD. 35min DREAMS REWIRED directed with Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode. narrated by Tilda Swinton. AT/D/UK 2015, DCP, 85 min UNKNOWN TERRITORIES UK 2014, commissioned for C4, HDV, 3 min A NEW AND EXCITING EXPERIENCE AT/UK 2012, HDV, 10 min ARCHITEKTURBUREAU LICHTPAUSE / BLUE-SKY BLUEPRINT AT/UK 2011, HDV, animation film commissioned by DIAGONALE / KÖR, 10 min LIMITATIONS PERMITTED UK 2009, silent stereoscopic 3D, 20 min SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM UK 2001/2009, DV CAM, 10 min MAKE IT SNOW! MAKE IT SNOW! MAKE IT SNOW! UK 2008, DV CAM, commissioned for C4 / Animate!, 1 min MAPPING CCTV AROUND WHITEHALL UK 2008, DV CAM, commissioned for NHK, 3 min DANCER'S CUT UK 2008, DVCAM 10 min commissioned by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company for its 20st anniversary FACELESS narrated by Tilda Swinton A/UK 2007, DigiBeta, 50 min IN THE YEAR OF THE FIREDOG UK/TH 2005, DV CAM, 10 min VIRTUAL BORDERS (feature documentary) A/UK 2004, DigiBeta, 91 min Honorary Mention DIAGONALE 2004 AV DINNERS epic eros UK 2003, DigiBeta, 13min short documentary of networked cooking performance BROADBANDIT HIGHWAY UK 2001, 50min, 2. prize 24th Int. Moscow film festival 2002, cat. Cybermovie. ART SERVERS UNLIMITED UK 1998, Beta SP, 30 min. Documentary about the emerging European net culture scene. SO ODER ANDERS A 1996, 16 mm, 13 min