Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln KHM

The Academy of Media Arts (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln — KHM) was founded in 1990. Study is centred on an integrated study programme, “Audiovisual Media”, which is run by the Academy’s four sections: Television and Film (tf), Media Design (md), Media Art (ma), and Art and Media Studies (ams). With an average of seventy seminars each semester, as well as praxis-oriented workshops on topical and classic themes, the Academy of Media Arts offers young media designers, artists, film- and television makers the widest range of study options in the field of audiovisual media in Europe.

The Academy of Media Arts brings together all those media that intersect in media praxis, but which are usually separated at other institutions of further education. Cooperation with other academies and universities in Germany and abroad, with cultural institutions, television organisations, and the media industry promotes this process of integration.

At the Academy of Media Arts, art, technology, and science work together. Different ways of thinking meet: theory encounters practical design, technological programmes and artistic imagination combine. This teaches students a sense of their social and political responsibility as artists, designers, directors, and authors who are engaged in the media.

In the study programme high priority is given to experimental creative praxis in conjunction with the acquisition of technical competence in the media. Work in the atelier, studio, and laboratory, together with the seminars, forms the curriculum’s centre of gravity. These diverse activities are accompanied by series of basic seminars and lectures on the historical and theoretical foundations of the audiovisual media.

Michael Koch
Germany, Switzerland
2006 / 35mm / docu / 0:09:00 / sans dailogue

The fans’ leader of the FC Basel is co responsible for the game’s atmosphere. He starts singing, gives the rhythm, animates and leads fans’ choreographies.

Katharina Pethke
Germany
2005 / Digi Beta /docu / 0:07:00 / VOSTA

"Anophtalmus" is a medical, poetical and abstract concept for what is to see: working hands in the dark over a noisy fire and the rotating glass in the centre of everything. A developing process’ description of the visible. A look on the product -a glass eye- becomes an almost painful and simultaneously hortative confrontation with the visual perception.

Carolin Schmitz, Heike Mutter
Germany
2002 / 35 mm / docu / 0:28:00 / VOSTA

« Parallel universes” is a film about a peculiar world, in which there is an attempt to explain our whole world, which is in a bigger world, the universe, which, up to a theory of parallel universes, exists next to another universe.

Rosa Hannah Ziegler
Germany
2006 / Digi Beta / fiction / 0:07:00 / sans dialogue

Isolated in his room, the director’s father intransigently pursues his addiction: smoking cigarettes.

Michael Koch
Germany
2005 / 35 mm / fiction / 0:19:00 / VOSTA

A confrontation from a misunderstanding between two teenagers and a pool attendant leads to a tragic accident. A story about the ambivalent friendship and conflict fields: what we see and what we want to see.

Ralf Stadler
Germany
2005 / 16mm / fiction / 0:06:00 / VOSTF

In a fictional war: on the ramp of an ordnance factory, an obscure encounter takes place between a worker and a black market salesman. Next to the goods of daily needs, he has a peculiar book with him, in which there is all about the people’s wishes. The cigarette break is based on a sketch of Russian futurist Daniil Charms (1906-1942).

Dirk Lütter
Germany
2006 / Digi Beta / fiction / 0:23:00 / VOSTA

The unsuccessful thirty-year Marc, experiences his first day as testpurchaser. On the long overland trip he learns about the niceness of a purchaser’s existence, his three colleagues and the province of East Germany.