Telemach Wiesinger, born 1968 in Bielefeld, Germany. He studied Visual Communication at Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel / Germany, Diploma Master of Arts) 1995.

As photographer he is working for many art books and Solo-exhibitions (selected) : Contemporary Art Center Athens/GR, Centre d’Art contemporain Nîmes/FR, Kunstpalast Lemberg/UA, Kunstforum Waldkirch/DE, Takashimaya Matsuyama/Japan, Photographic Society Lesvos/ GR, Skovegaard Museet Viborg/DK, Smokebrush Gallery Colorado Springs/ USA, Museum für Moderne Kunst Rupertinum Salzburg/AU, Eté Photographique de Lectoure/FR, Centre Culturel Français Freiburg/DE, Galerie Konsumverein Braunschweig/DE, Fotomuseum Hirsmüller Emmendingen/DE, Galleri Eric Axl Sund Stockholm/SE, Kunstverein Schallstadt/DE, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen/DE, Galerie Depot K Freiburg/DE, Hallen für Kunst E-Werk Freiburg/DE, Schloss Rotenfels/DE, Zündorfer Turm Köln/DE, L6 Künstlerwerkstatt Freiburg/DE, Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen/DE, Escuela de Arte Granada/ES, Kunstverein Bahlingen/DE, Georg-Scholz-Haus Waldkirch/DE, GEDOK Galerie Stuttgart/ DE, Gare du Nord Basel/CH, DasLabor Berlin/DE, Kunstverein Radbrunnen Breisach/D, Kunstverein Burkheim/D, Guildford House Gallery/GB, Municipal Building Madison/Wisconsin/USA, Meckel-Halle Freiburg/DE, Stadtmuseum Stadtarchiv Innsbruck/AU, Universidad de Granada/ES, Hôtel de Ville Besancon/FR, Salla della Rinascente Padova/IT, Galerie Lezard Colmar/FR, Public Library Madison/USA, University of Surrey Guildford/ GB, Euroairport Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg/FR, Galerie AMC/FR Visiting Lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Akademie für Kommunikation Freiburg, ENSCI Les Ateliers Paris, Institut of Art & Design Milwaukee, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg, L’Institut National des Beaux-Arts Tétouan, Akademie Schloss Rotenfels, Escuela de Arte
Granada, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, ZHdK, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, University of the Aegean Lesvos, Ústí nad Labem House of Arts Faculty of Art and Design Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Filmcampus Innsbruck, University of Illinois at Chicago and
others.

Telemach Wiesinger`s multiple award winning film works are presented in solo programs or performances on numerous festivals and locations.

Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Black Maria Festival Jersey City, FIFE Île-de-France, Tampere Film Festival, International Seoul Net & Filmfestival, Image Forum Tokio, Media City international festival of experimental film and video art Windsor, Semana International del Cortometraje en San Roque, Festival de film court de Brest, InVideo Milan, Icaro Festival International de Cine Guatemala, Toronto Film Week, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Blow-Up Arthouse Film Fest, Mire Nantes, Cineramabc Brazil, Leeds International Film -Festival, Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Theater Freiburg, Wisconsin Film Festival, Spanische Botschaft Tokio, Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Int. Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Filmoteca Andalucía Granada, Image Filmfestival Toronto, Busam International Short Film Festival, Directors Lounge Berlin, Norwich Radical Filmfest, The International Experimental Cinema Exhibition Denver, Det Danske Filminstitut Cinemateket, Regensburger Kurzfilmtage, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Te Tuhi Contemporary Art Trust Auckland New Zealand, University of the Aegean Lesvos, Martinique Film Festival, VideoEx Zürich, Underdox München, Artist’s Television Access San Francisco, Venice Film Week, Noordelijk Film Festival, Freiburger Filmfest, IndieCork Ireland, Centre -Culturel de Tétouan, Films Infest Cine de Autor Mallorca, Goddess on the Throne Filmfest Kosova, Arsenal Berlin, Experimental Superstars Film Festival Novi Sad, Media Art Festival Friesland, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Filmoteca Andalucía Córdoba, Smokebrush Gallery Colorado Springs, ECLAT Stuttgart, Kalinigrad Filmfestival, University of Mytilini, monografica Cagliari, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Confluencias IV Huelva, Centrum för fotografi Stockholm, Videofestival Saarbrücken, Mannheimer Filmwoche, Filmmuseum Frankfurt, Löwen-Lichtspiele Kenzingen, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Filmschau Baden-Württemberg, Milwaukee Institut for Art & Design, Kunsthalle Baselland, Tanzhaus Zürich, Gare du Nord Basel, Museum Smallingerland, Hauser+Wirth Zürich, Filmoteca Andalucía Almeriá, E-Werk Hallen für Kunst Freiburg, Cinemathèque Leipzig, Lilian Gish Film Theatre Ohio, Kommunales Kino Freiburg, Imagedo Seoul, Cairo Videofestival, Lichtblick Kino Berlin, Instituto Cervantes de Tánger, kinemathek Karlsruhe, Reina Sofia Madrid, Kino im Sprengel Hannover, Galerie depot.k Freiburg, Polvo en los Ojos Festival de Cine Experimental Quito, Filmzwerge Oldenburg, Aureolustheater Brecklenkamp, 16mm Harkat Mumbai, Atelier Grammophon
Hannover, Sound of Stockholm, AckerStadtPalast Berlin, General Public Berlin, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokio, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Kunstverein Schallstadt, Confluencias Huelva, Galerie Allgemeiner Konsumverein Braunschweig, Georg-Scholz-Haus Kunstforum Waldkirch, Vienna Independent Shorts, Mehrspur Music Club generator#14 Zürich, Filmkollektiv Frankfurt, Kumedi Riegel, Comedia Mundi Zeltheater Frankfurt a.M., downstairs – Das Filmcafé Berlin, Hell Chess Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Heinrich-Heine-Institut Düsseldorf, Manifesto Film Festival Amsterdam, cresc… Biennale für Moderne Musik Frankfurt Rhein Main, Escuela de Arte Granada, Caligari Filmbühne Wiesbaden, Cinéma Christine 21 Paris, National Library Wales, Haus Fischerzunft Bad Säckingen, Hintergrund Festival Strasbourg, Guildhall Guildford, Melbourne International Film Festival, The Kinochrome Sessions Toronto, Faculty of Art and Design Ústí nad Labem, Diametrale Wien, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée Marseille, Process Festival Riga, Near Nazareth Festival, Festival de Portoviejo, Openeyes Filmfest Marburg, Film i Samtidskonsten Stockholm, Avanca Film Festival, Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Experimental Forum Los Angeles, Experimental Superstars Novi Sad, Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, Minikino Film Week Bali, Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival Bilbao, PSSST! – Silent Film Festival Zagreb, Filmz – Festival of German Cinema, Kinoskop Belgrad, 180’ Berlin Filmfest, Kasseler Dokfest, 4th Festival ECRA 2020 Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Madurai Int. Documentary and Short Film Festival, Le Prince Int’l Film Festival Caracas, Chhatrapati Shivaji Aji Pune, Hollyworms Short Film Festival, Papaya Rocks London, Findecoin Puerto la Cruz, Västerâs konstmuseum Stockholm, The Moving Image Salon Mia screens London, SorsiCorti Short Film Festival, Couch Film Festival Canada, Converge Festival Cineramabc 2016, Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival, On Art Poland, Ultracinema Mexico, la lumière collective Microcinéma Montréal, The Vast Lab Experimental Film Festival Los Angeles, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Lleida Visual Art (Spain), Intermediacones Muestra de Videoarte y Video Experimental, Festival VII Cinemistica Granada, Fourth The Buddha Int’l’ Film Festival Pune, Maharashtra, India, 6th Inca Imperial International Film Festival Lima Peru, AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, 3th FLIGHT / Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, Etherea Art Gallery Genova, BilbaoArte, 17 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival vol 3 Mexico, 17th Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground Argentina , 3th Ribalta Experimental Film Festival Vignola, Fisura / 3rd Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental, Mexico City, 7.Filmfest Bremen Kunsthalle Bremen, 28. Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, XXV Rencontres Internationales Art expérimental Traverse Toulouse, Ciné Tonia Marketaki Thessaloniki Port, AFF Gallery Berlin, 6th edition Fracto Experimental Film Encounter Berlin, MAIIIM Media Art of the III Millennium – Centro internazionale d’arte contemporanea multimediale, Home Movies Bologna, Independent Film Show 22th edition: Belvedere Museo Nitsch Napoli, GIFF 25th Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato Mexico City, 12th Oxaca Filmfest Mexico, 26th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, VIII Festival Cinemistica Granada, PSSST! 16th Silent Film / 16th Festival Nijemog Filma, Zagreb Croatia, KINOSCOPE Analogue Experimental Film Festival, Belgrad, Konglomerat Dresden, Shortfilmmarket 2023 Clermont-Ferrand, In the Palace 20th Int Short Film Festival Sofia, Filmhaus Nürnberg, Under the Radar Vienna, KoKi/ Kunstverein/Kunsthaus Hannover, 2nd South Sound Experimental Film Festival Seattle Oregon USA, 5th FilmArte Madrid, X Muestra Super 8 y 16mm San Roque, Mientras tanto CINE Convocatoria 2023 cine experimenta Montevideo, 8th FECSC Santa Cruz International Film Festival Argentina, MuMaBox Le Havre 2023, 8th INCA IMPERIAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Lima, Tramway Film Festival Poland 2023, TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE International Arts Experimental Films and Filmpoems Festival Sweden 2023, 6th PHOTOMETRIA IN MOTION Greece, 3rd Cinema4Screen Festival Mumbai Maharastra India, 13th ON ART Film Festival Poland, 9th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia, 9th International Festival Signs of the Night Bangkok Thailand, 47. OPEN AIR WEITERSTADT Germany, 21th International Festival Signs of the Night (Signes de Nuit) Paris, 24th LECCE Film Festival / Italia, 21th TIRANA International Film
Festival VIDEO ART & EXPERIMENTAL, 9th DOBRA int. Exp. film festival 2023 at Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro& at CCSP in Sao Paulo, 31th ALEXANDRE TRAUNER ART/FILM FESTIVAL Ungarn, XII ULTRAcinema Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada, and in Mexico City, Xalapa, Puebla, Oaxaca, Mexico, 22nd edition of the LAUSANNE UNDERGROUND Film & Music Festival Lausanne Switzerland, 6th ENGAUGE Experimental Film Festival at Northwest Film Forum Seattle USA, 9th EXPERIMENTAL SUPERSTARS in Novi Sad / Serbia Nov, KINO PLEME KINO PLEME / LIVESOUNDTRACK 2023 Belgrade / Serbia, 7° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte Urbino, 5th VASTLAB Experimental Los Angeles – VLX5, 6th edition PRISME – Experimental film festival Nantes, 6th edition PRISME – Wandering Screening / La Roche-sur-Yon, International Festival Signs of the Night / Bangkok 2023, 13th BLOW-UP Arthouse Film festival Chicago, 5th FLIGHT Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, LIVE SOUNDTRACK KINO PLEME 2023 Novi Beograd, 5th KINOSKOP Festival, the Art Bioskop Kolarac Belgrade Serbia, 5th FOTOGENIA, INTERNATIONAL FILMPOETRY, AND DIVERGENT NARRATIVES FESTIVAL Mexico City, Short Film Market Clermont Ferrand 2024, Filmhaus Köln, XI MUESTRA Super 8 & 16mm San Roque Cadiz, third edition of Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, 34th Mediawave International Film and Music Festival Ungarn, 7th MA/IN Italia, 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 8° Festival Internacional Signes da Noite Urbino, Filmfest Weiterstadt, 8th Photometria in Motion Ioannina, Celaya Experimental Film Guanajuato, MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Gathering Hungaria, 10 thExperimental Superstars Novi Sad 2024, XX Festival Transterritrial de Cine Underground Buenos Aires, Festival International Signes de Nuit – Paris 2024

SELECTION of 16mm Films

12 ASTERISCI (2024), 60 Min
TRANSIT (2024), 15 Min
KYKLOP (2023) Music: Alexander Grebtschenko, 15 Min
TURBULENCE (2022) Music: Alexander Grebtschenko, 15 Min
1:1 (2020/2021), Music: Alexander Grebtschenko, 30 Min
RONDO (2020), silent, 7 Min
SIGNAL (2020), silent, 10 Min
ABRACADABRA (2019), Music: Manu Mühl, 3 Min
DOPPELGÄNGER (2018), Music: Martin Bergande, 3 Min
TRANSFORMATION (2017), Music: Alexander Grebtschenko, 12 Min
KALEIDOSCOPE (2015), Music: A. Grebtschenko & more, 82 Min
PATENT No. DE 1037274 B (2015/1992), Sound: A. Gogol, 13 Min
”10” (2013), Music: Cornelius Schwehr, 65 Min
EUROPA (2012), Sound: Andreas Gogol, 20 Min
MOTOR (2011), Sound: Andreas Gogol, 20 Min
DIE ANKUNFT EINES ZUGES (2011), Sound: Andreas Gogol, 3 Min
PASSAGE…S (2008), silent, 30 Min
PASSAGE (2008), Sound: Tobias Schwab, 30 Min
3×1 (2007), Sound: Tobias Schwab, 10 Min
LANDED RE-EDITION (2007), 35 Min
DER KLANG DES MEERES with Wolfgang Lehmann(2004),silent,15Min
MEER with Wolfgang Lehmann(2004), Music: M. Mochizuki, 15Min

DISTRIBUTION

Lichtbild Wiesinger (www.telemach-wiesinger.de)
Most films are distributed by Light Cone, Paris
https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-1572-telemach-wiesinger

AWARDS

Award for KYKLOP:
„primer premio 16 mm“ XI Muestra de Cine Super 8 y 16 milímetros San Roque Spain Febrero 2024

Awards for TURBULENCE:
„Eisenstein Award – Best Experimental“ Blow-up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago USA 2023
„2nd price“ category Video Art ON ART POLAND 2023

Awards for 1:1:
„”Best Experimental Abstraction” Winner Experimental Brasil 2024 & „Primer Premio en la categoría de 16mm“ X Muestra de Cine Super 8 y 16 mm San Roque Cadiz / Spain 2023 & „MÁXIMOS GALARDONES: LA LUPA Y EL IMÁN“ CATEGORÍA VIII Festival Cinemistica Granada 2022 & „Best Short Experimental“ Malta Film Festival 2022 & „Best experimental short film“ 7th Bayamón International Film Festival / Puerto Rico 2022 & „Special Mention“ Experimental Superstars 2021 / Novi Sad, Serbia „1:1“ Nominated for the „Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik 2021“: „Best Experimental Film“

Awards for SIGNAL:
„mencion especial / Honorable Mention: “ Muestra Super8 y 16mm San Roque 2022 & „Mención especial: Diploma“ Cinemistica Granada 2021

Award for ABRACADABRA:
„BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY“ Winner / Couch Film Festival 2020

Award for TRANSFORMATION:
„PRIMER PREMIO 16mm“ 7° Muestra de Super 8 y 16mm de San Roque

Awards for KALEIDOSCOPE:
„Experimental Feature Award“ 6th Inca Imperial International Film Festival Lima Peru 2021 & „BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM“ Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival 2016 & „Special Jury Award – Best Outstanding Arthouse Film“ BLOW UP ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL CHICAGO 2016 & „Major pelicula experimental international“ Films InFest 2017 Mallorca & „honorable mention“ Los Angeles Experimental Forum 2016 & „diploma“ Madrid Hell Chess 2017 Award for MOTOR BEST CAMERA AWARD („Premio Kinova a la Mejor Fotografia“) XXXVI Semana International del Cortometraje San Roque Febrero 2014

Award for EUROPA:

Honorable Mention „mencion especial“ XXXV Semana Cortometraje San Roque 2014

Award for DIE ANKUNFT EINES ZUGES:
2nd PRICE „secundo premio“ at 4. La Muestra Super8/16mm Cadiz 2015

With the musician Andreas GOGOL he received the TEAM-WORK-AWARD 2007 for the film and music live performance LANDED TAKES & SOUND TIMES at Filmwinter, Int. Festival for Expanded Media Stuttgart

As photographer he is working for many art books and Solo-exhibitions: Contemporary Art Center Athens, Centre d’Art contemporain Nîmes, Kunstpalast Lemberg, Takashimaya Matsuyama, Photographic Society Lesvos, Skovegaard Museet Viborg, Smokebrush Gallery Colorado Springs, Museum für Moderne Kunst Rupertinum Salzburg, Eté Photographique de Lectoure.

Visiting Lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Akademie für Kommunikation Freiburg, ENSCI Les Ateliers Paris, Institut of Art & Design Milwaukee, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Evangelische Hochschule Freiburg, L’Institut National des Beaux-Arts Tétouan, Akademie Schloss Rotenfels, Escuela de Arte Granada, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, ZHdK, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, University of the Aegean Lesvos, Ústí nad Labem House of Arts Faculty of Art and Design Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Filmcampus Innsbruck, University of Illinois at Chicago and others.