In my work, I explore the disequilibrium between natural beings' complexity and their evolution within hostile economic, political, and technological structures.
The contrast between the dominant discourse and the plurality of imaginaries is at the heart of my research.
Through a speculative approach, I develop philosophical concepts in the form of poetic objects, situated at the intersection between analogue moving images, texts, music and soundscapes.
Often cinematic, they extend to expanded cinema, embracing sound art, kinetic art and installation art, and open up to parallel dreamlike and cosmic worlds.
From these fields of resonance in perpetual motion emerges an invitation to critical reflection, intimately intertwined with sensory experience
I am interested in the hidden, in the signs that emerge in the dark, in those places whose ground is still unknown,
and in seeing events that are commonly perceived as static in a new way.
Outside and in the analogue film laboratory, I explore and experiment with boundaries where the invisible emerges in the spectrum of the visible.
With the continued support, inspiration, and participation of:
Adeline Rosenstein, Adrien Kessler, Andrea Neumann, Anouschka Trocker, Asi Foecker, Denis Rollet, Eduard Mont de Palol, Florian Bach, Frank Fedele,
Geraldine Schenkel, Guillaume Cailleau, Julien Nembrini, Lucile Desamory, Marcello S. Busato, Maya Schweizer, Mireille Favez, Zora Watzlawick, LaborBerlin Mitstreiter
Group exhibitions:
Tromsø Kunstforening (NO), Galerie Stedefreund Berlin, Diffraktion LaborBerlin, Screenings@doku.ARGU.Experi.Pig Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord (DE)
Retrospectives / Special screenings:
BlueScreen Brussel (BE), Analogue Zone Cairo (EG), AsiaLux Seoul(KR), FiaF International Federation of Filmarchive PragAnalogArchiveMeeting (CZ), VariaVision, Volksbühne, Berlin (DE), Cinémathèque Suisse Lausanne, Filmpodium Zürich, Théâtre du Galpon (CH), ArsenalKino, Regenbogenkino, LichtblickKino, Ausland Berlin ; Filmladen Kassel (DE)
Film festivals (selection):
Fifa Montreal (CA), EMAF Osnabrück, Kasseler Dokfest (DE), Crossroads San Francisco Cinematheque (US-KA) Festival international du film indépendant de Bruxelles (BE), Istanbul Experimental (TR), FilmFestival Femina Rio (BR), CineAutopsia Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (CO), Process filmfestival Riga (LV), Vienna Short (AT), Cinéma tout écran Genf (CH)
Competition: Revolution Filmfestival Berlin (DE), Lumen Festival Rio (BR), Uppsala short film festival (SE), EXiS Seoul International Experimental Film and Video Festival (KR)
2024: Residency S.P.A.C.E., Spectral Residency, Berlin
2023: Grand Female Artists Program, Berlin
2020: Grand Special programme of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2019: Award Grand Prix du Jury for Sans Lune, Berlin Revolution Film Festival
2006: Award Best shortfilm Svegliarsi in mezzo al mare, Festival Internacional de Cinema Femina, Ri0
2003: Residency Cité des Arts in Paris, Fondation I.Patino and Ville de Genève
2002: Award Prime à la qualité for Les Noctambules, Genf
contact: sophiewatz@protonmail.com