Manuel Knapp Trailers
About the Nature of Darkness TrailerAxis of Aion TrailerMomentum 201621 Trailer
Artist, musician, and filmmaker. Born in 1978. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2002) and computer music and electroacoustic media at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2005). In 2007, he won the Diagonale prize for Best Experimental Film; in 2008 he made the festival’s trailer. He has won accolades at, and taken part in, numerous film festivals, including Ann Arbor, Lausanne, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Osnabrück, Leeds, the Viennale, Mexico City, and Gothenburg. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in leading art spaces in Austria and Czechia. In Russia, Manuel Knapp’s work has been shown in a group exhibition in Murmansk.
Most Popular Manuel Knapp Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
14 January 2005
"An aesthetics of complexity: a "dynamic system", which no longer follows the idea of order and simplicity, arises in a zone of permanent transition, within the steady slipping off and passing away of the graphic formations" (David Komary).
01 January 2007
As a dark architectural fantasy which turns spaces into buttresses, visibility of interim~ can be seen in the same category as Piranesi´s prison paintings, and also the oblique light and shade of German Expressionism.
01 January 2008
The video image of distorted areas~ proceeds from an aesthetic which runs counter to the logic of having a specific purpose, disturbing it at the most.
01 January 2013
The kinetic graphisms of Manuel Knapp's V~ open a portal into the process of creation from forces of numerical matter.
01 January 2009
In stroboscopic noise~ two lines oscillate at different frequencies and at varying distances from each other in the picture field.
26 January 2018
The first part in a new series of computer animations by Manuel Knapp, Momentum 142310 deals on the one hand with spaces refracted by textures and on the other with a projection of them.
01 January 2009
A visual and acoustic examination of the aesthetic potentialities of interim noise within deconstructed and distorted interiors.
01 January 2013
Feature length computeranimation by Manuel Knapp, sound by Tim Blechmann.
01 January 2005
computeranimation 4:3 b/w stereo SD 10 min.
14 January 2016
Controlled by the "laws of reflection", this space reveals itself in all its features and movements in correlation to the software.
01 January 2013
With the light-dark contrasts and light courses, Manuel Knapp brings, in addition, cinematic elements into the game: for example, the complex visual development is disturbed, in part, by diffuse shadows, transparencies, and also reflections, which fracture the potential precision of the linear, computer-generated structures.
20 June 2019
The third part of a series of computer animations. The series "MOMENTUM ~" deals on the one hand with spaces refracted by textures and on the other with a projection of them, their temporality and afterimages which can be seen within a frame of 30fps by switching between two states of spatial folding.
01 January 2012
A three-dimensional sequence is generated from raw data. The rendered sequence is projected onto the original scene in the program, rendered again, and projected once again as a shadow map.
24 October 2025
The moral self-assurance of fairy tales is lost in the depths of the dark forest haunted by Manuel Knapp with his projection and recording equipment.
01 July 2019
From 2019, Makino and Knapp have launched a new project "Axis of Aion". It uses two video projectors, each projecting live video and fusing them on a single screen.
01 August 2017
An audiovisual snow storm in front of a black ground, a white horizontal line that divides the image, grid planes, unfolding and folding dimensions.
01 January 2014
Mom, I’m really afraid that I will not be able to die. Why, baby, why do you say such a thing? Mom is praying for your health.
01 January 2018
The second part of a series of computer animations.
