Johannes Krell

As an artist duo, Florian Fischer and Johannes KRELL (1982, Germany) have been working at the interface of film and visual art since 2013. Their non-verbal, cinematic works function as resonating bodies for the ambivalent relationships between human and non-human actors. The artists aim to undermine dualistic thought patterns that seek to differentiate between nature and culture, the animate and the inanimate, the normative and the monstrous, fact and fiction, in order to occupy the shimmering spaces in between. Their works have been shown at several international film festivals, including IFFR, IDFA, Berlinale, IFF Chicago and Hot Docs Toronto. They have received the German Short Film Award and the Berlinale Golden Bear for Best Short Film. Fischer and Krell are supported artists of the media art association Werkleitz and members of the film collective FILZ in Leipzig. Their works are in the distribution with Light Cone in Paris and the video art foundation imai in Düsseldorf.

Filmography

(all short) A Cloud of Unknowing (2011), Still Life (2014), Kaltes Tal/Cold Valley (2016, doc), Umbra (2019), Les Rites de Passage (2024)