Maja Milić (HR/DE)

Maja Milić artist and researcher, experimental filmmaker, sound explorer and DJ. She was born in Slavonski Brod, but lives and works between Berlin and Jasenovac. Her practice can be characterized as experimental autoethnography, including extensive work with found footage, mainly the deconstruction and reconstruction of home movies, and trivial elements of reality. Apart from her film "OTHER" (2021-ongoing), such elements appear in her current work with sound improvisation, radiophonic experiments, expanded cinema performances, as well as in her conceptual book with the same title "OTHER" (published with Atlas Projectos, Lisbon, and We make it, Berlin), all cryptically intertwined and in all of which she believes to be practicing film, too. Intuition and unpredictability are crucial to her approach. Her filmic practice started 2010 in the artist-run analog film lab Klubvizija in Zagreb, currently being part of the lab Laborberlin, as well. She taught various workshops on found footage, expanded cinema, shooting and film processing. Under the moniker Geanina Gypt her "leftfield" and electroacoustic music is presented in a monthly radio show Gypt Sessions on the first free Berlin artist radio reboot.fm, in which the radio is used to express various conceptual sonic or filmic ideas. She started to self-release (mix)tapes under her own Gypt Records. The first music releases are coming up on a label from Berlin. She holds a MFA in artistic film from HFBK Hamburg and Dipl.ing.of graphic technologies from the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Zagreb. Currently she is teaching time-based media and performance in the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (next to ZKM).

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