Felix Klee is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Munich. His interdisciplinary practice investigates the entangled stories and histories of human and nonhuman animals. His work specifically looks at how technology shapes these relationships when capitalist production systems overlap with the lifeworlds of nonhuman animals.
In his practice he combines a vast array of mediums ranging from documentary film, 3D and traditional 2D animation, modded computer games and painting to analog tabletop roleplaying games.
His works have been screened and exhibited internationally, including DOK Leipzig, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Reykjavík International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival, DOXA Vancouver, Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival, Digital Art Center Taipei and Het Nieuwe Instituut, among others.
His film "Hoamweh Lung" was semi-finalist for the 50th Student Academy Awards and won the FFF Documentary Talent Award at DOK.Fest Munich, "Grand Prix” at Diversions International Short Film Festival
“Best visual innovation” award at Filmfest Bremen and the Starter Film Award of the city of Munich, among others.
On his projects he frequently collaborates with Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez, Cyrielle Raingou, Leila Fatima Keita, Laura Kansy, Total Refusal, Naho Matsuda, Nicolas Gourault and the Mexican production company Brujazul, among many others.
His film "Hoamweh Lung" was semi-finalist for the 50th Student Academy Awards and won the FFF Documentary Talent Award at DOK.Fest Munich, "Grand Prix” at Diversions International Short Film Festival
“Best visual innovation” award at Filmfest Bremen and the Starter Film Award of the city of Munich, among others.
On his projects he frequently collaborates with Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez, Cyrielle Raingou, Leila Fatima Keita, Laura Kansy, Total Refusal, Naho Matsuda, Nicolas Gourault and the Mexican production company Brujazul, among many others.
He frequently teaches at University of Television and Film Munich, where he gives a yearly one week seminar on "Animation in documentary contexts" at the documentary department and an online film history module exploring Harun Farocki's editing approaches together with Elisabeth Korn. He has also taught a one week seminar on the implications of moving image production using AI regarding labor and ethics at HFF's International Summer School together with Prof. Sylvia Rothe. Further seminars included audio post-production, editing and basic technical camera knowledge.
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Felix Klee lives and works in Munich.In 2023 his film "Hoamweh Lung" was semifinalist for the 50th Student Academy Awards.
Since 2022 he has also been studying editing at University of Television and Film Munich.
Since 2022 he has also been studying editing at University of Television and Film Munich.
For 2022 Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez and he received the 12 month media art scholarship and artist-residency from Kirch foundation, Regina Hesselberger and HFF Munich.
From 2020 – 2022 he served as youth advisory board member at Locarno Film Festival.
In 2019 he received the special award of Kirch foundation's media art scholarship together with Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez.
Since 2015 he has been studying directing for documentary film at University of Television and Film Munich.
He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich where he studied time-based media under Prof. Julian Rosefeldt and painting under Prof. Pia Fries.
He has studied painting under Prof. Thomas Hartmann at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and was a guest student at Universidad de las Artes Aguascalientes Mexico.
Awards
2023 Semifinalist for the 50th Student Academy Awards
2022 FFF Documentary Talent Award at DOK.Fest Munich
2022 “Best visual innovation” award at Filmfest Bremen
2022 "Grand Prix" at Diversions International Short Film Festival
2022 Starter Film Award of the city of Munich
2022 Advancement Award by FilmFernsehFond Bayern at International Short Film Week Regensburg
2022 Best Fiction Short Film at aluCine Latin American Film & Media Arts Festival
2022 Best Short Film at Festival Internacional de Cine Cuenca
2022 Honorary Mention of the Jury at Heimatfilmzeit, Filmzeit Kaufbeuren
2021 Special mention of the jury, National Competition at Guanajuato International Short Film Festival (Mexico)
2021 Award of the Regional Competition at Regensburg International Short Film Week
2021 Honorary Mention of the Bavarian Film Fund Jury at Regensburg International Short Film Week
2020 First prize at Drama International Film Festival Pitching Lab
2020 Nomination DOK.digital prize for innovative digital story-telling
2019 Best short film award at Academia Film Olomouc
2015 Emerging Talent Culture Prize of the city of Passau
2023 Semifinalist for the 50th Student Academy Awards
2022 FFF Documentary Talent Award at DOK.Fest Munich
2022 “Best visual innovation” award at Filmfest Bremen
2022 "Grand Prix" at Diversions International Short Film Festival
2022 Starter Film Award of the city of Munich
2022 Advancement Award by FilmFernsehFond Bayern at International Short Film Week Regensburg
2022 Best Fiction Short Film at aluCine Latin American Film & Media Arts Festival
2022 Best Short Film at Festival Internacional de Cine Cuenca
2022 Honorary Mention of the Jury at Heimatfilmzeit, Filmzeit Kaufbeuren
2021 Special mention of the jury, National Competition at Guanajuato International Short Film Festival (Mexico)
2021 Award of the Regional Competition at Regensburg International Short Film Week
2021 Honorary Mention of the Bavarian Film Fund Jury at Regensburg International Short Film Week
2020 First prize at Drama International Film Festival Pitching Lab
2020 Nomination DOK.digital prize for innovative digital story-telling
2019 Best short film award at Academia Film Olomouc
2015 Emerging Talent Culture Prize of the city of Passau
Scholarships
2022 Media art scholarship and 12 month residency by Kirch foundation, Regina Hesselberger and HFF Munich
2019 special award of the Media Art Scholarship by Kirch foundation and HFF Munich
2019 PROMOS Scholarship for realization of a film project in Mexico
2016 Oskar Forster Scholarship
2022 Media art scholarship and 12 month residency by Kirch foundation, Regina Hesselberger and HFF Munich
2019 special award of the Media Art Scholarship by Kirch foundation and HFF Munich
2019 PROMOS Scholarship for realization of a film project in Mexico
2016 Oskar Forster Scholarship
Talent Campus / Pitching Labs
2021 Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis, Young Blood Pitch, Empfang der Filmhochschulen
2020 Drama International Film Festival Pitching Lab
2020 DOK.Fest Munich, DOK.digital pitch program
2019 Locarno Film Festival Base Camp program (founding generation), Switzerland
2019 Film Campus talent campus, Innsbruck, Austria
2021 Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis, Young Blood Pitch, Empfang der Filmhochschulen
2020 Drama International Film Festival Pitching Lab
2020 DOK.Fest Munich, DOK.digital pitch program
2019 Locarno Film Festival Base Camp program (founding generation), Switzerland
2019 Film Campus talent campus, Innsbruck, Austria
Festivals
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DOK Leipzig, Reykjavík International Film Festival, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Braunschweig International Film Festival, Equinoxio Bogotá, Filmfestival Münster, Oregon International Film Festival, International Short Film Week Regensburg, LAN working class festival Bilbao, Kino der Kunst München, Milan Machinima Festival, Ibrida Media Arts Festival, Academia Film Olomouc, Dok.Fest München Openair, Nonfiktionale Bad Aibling, Les Mains Gauches Marseilles, Kurzfilm Fest Deggendorf, Niederbayerische Kurzfilmnacht, Über Kurz oder Lang Murnau, Flimmern und Rauschen, Lange Nacht der Museen München, Neumayer Station III Antarctica
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DOK Leipzig, Reykjavík International Film Festival, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Braunschweig International Film Festival, Equinoxio Bogotá, Filmfestival Münster, Oregon International Film Festival, International Short Film Week Regensburg, LAN working class festival Bilbao, Kino der Kunst München, Milan Machinima Festival, Ibrida Media Arts Festival, Academia Film Olomouc, Dok.Fest München Openair, Nonfiktionale Bad Aibling, Les Mains Gauches Marseilles, Kurzfilm Fest Deggendorf, Niederbayerische Kurzfilmnacht, Über Kurz oder Lang Murnau, Flimmern und Rauschen, Lange Nacht der Museen München, Neumayer Station III Antarctica
Exhibitions
2023 "Every strike hits dead center" with Total Refusal, Digital Art Center Taipei, Taiwan
2022 "Come alive", Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw, The Netherlands
2021 "PⒶW", The One minutes Foundation's curated program
supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Pictoright Fund and Sandberg Instituut
Premiere at Het Nieuwe Instituut
2021 „Imagine the Earth is your lover“ The One minutes Foundation's curated program
East China Normal University Shanghai, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven, Museum Hilversum , KunstHal de Remise Amsterdam, Dortmunder U Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität, Betty Jane Amsterdam
2020 „KIRJASTO/LIBRARY“, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finnland
2020 „Imagine the Earth is your lover“, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2019 „Wanderlust“, group exhibition, Landkreis Gallery, Neuburg am Inn
2018 "Against Interpretation?", Vogdt Gallery, Munich
2018 "Wanderlust", Museum do Pobo Galego, Spain
2017 "Emisor del Arte", Galería Siluro, Spain
2016 "Anderswelt", Kunstverein Passau
2016 "9373,87", Arai Associates Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 "Del Barrio", Cubo Blanco Gallery, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2016 "Emisor del Arte", Museum of Contemporary Art, Nogales, Mexico
2016 "Diplomausstellung", Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2016 "Scoop", Big Pond Gallery, Munich
2016 "Rasender Stillstand", Kino der Kunst Festival, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
2016 "Jahresausstellung", Kunstverein Rosenheim
2014 "Falsche Freunde", Galerie Bernsteinzimmer, Nuremberg
2013 "Prototypen", Akademiegalerie, Nuremberg
2013 "Perros esquimales", Espacio de Arte Ludico, Léon, Mexico
2013 "Das kleine Format", Kunstverein Aichach
2013 "Prototypen", Städtische Galerie Speyer
2013 "Collector's view", Galerie Oechsner, Nuremberg
2013 "In your face", Kesselhaus, Augsburg
2012 "/prospekt/ Vorhang auf...", Neues Museum Nuremberg
2012 "Bloody Heart Poetry", with Anneliese Hough, Paper-works Gallery, Napier, New Zealand
2012 "Quickdraw", Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
2009 "Greenville Presents II", Greenville Presents Gallery, SC, USA
2022 "Come alive", Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw, The Netherlands
2021 "PⒶW", The One minutes Foundation's curated program
supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Pictoright Fund and Sandberg Instituut
Premiere at Het Nieuwe Instituut
2021 „Imagine the Earth is your lover“ The One minutes Foundation's curated program
East China Normal University Shanghai, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven, Museum Hilversum , KunstHal de Remise Amsterdam, Dortmunder U Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität, Betty Jane Amsterdam
2020 „KIRJASTO/LIBRARY“, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finnland
2020 „Imagine the Earth is your lover“, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2019 „Wanderlust“, group exhibition, Landkreis Gallery, Neuburg am Inn
2018 "Against Interpretation?", Vogdt Gallery, Munich
2018 "Wanderlust", Museum do Pobo Galego, Spain
2017 "Emisor del Arte", Galería Siluro, Spain
2016 "Anderswelt", Kunstverein Passau
2016 "9373,87", Arai Associates Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 "Del Barrio", Cubo Blanco Gallery, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2016 "Emisor del Arte", Museum of Contemporary Art, Nogales, Mexico
2016 "Diplomausstellung", Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2016 "Scoop", Big Pond Gallery, Munich
2016 "Rasender Stillstand", Kino der Kunst Festival, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
2016 "Jahresausstellung", Kunstverein Rosenheim
2014 "Falsche Freunde", Galerie Bernsteinzimmer, Nuremberg
2013 "Prototypen", Akademiegalerie, Nuremberg
2013 "Perros esquimales", Espacio de Arte Ludico, Léon, Mexico
2013 "Das kleine Format", Kunstverein Aichach
2013 "Prototypen", Städtische Galerie Speyer
2013 "Collector's view", Galerie Oechsner, Nuremberg
2013 "In your face", Kesselhaus, Augsburg
2012 "/prospekt/ Vorhang auf...", Neues Museum Nuremberg
2012 "Bloody Heart Poetry", with Anneliese Hough, Paper-works Gallery, Napier, New Zealand
2012 "Quickdraw", Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
2009 "Greenville Presents II", Greenville Presents Gallery, SC, USA