Event overview
Artist Leonie Kellein discusses her recent work in film and installation in this special talk, screening and Q&A presented by the MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image.
Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Leonie Kellein works across moving image, sculpture and installation to explore how perception is shaped, and at times unsettled, by the technologies that frame it. Her practice examines the tension between bodily awareness and mechanical recording, creating moments where seeing becomes an embodied and uncertain act. Through this focus on the filmic gaze, she investigates how acts of looking reveal the politics and material operations of the image itself.
Kellein’s current research extends into the areas of trauma, memory and spatial disorientation. Her recent works consider how the body registers imbalance, translating psychological and sensory states into cinematic form. Using techniques such as the Vertigo effect, she transforms optical distortion into a means of sensing the unstable connections between body, machine and world.
A graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London, MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image, Kellein has received the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt and the Hamburg Work Scholarship. Her films and installations, including Stupor(2024), It’s In My Body (2023) and A Wing Beat! A Wing Beat! (2022), have been exhibited internationally at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, FID Marseille and Visions du Réel.
Presented by the MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image and hosted by Programme Director Gail Pickering, this event features an artist talk, screening and Q&A with Leonie Kellein, exploring her evolving practice and the ways film can act as a space for perception, reflection and transformation.
Doors open from 6.15pm
Location: Cinema in the Richard Hoggart Building
@goldsmithsartistsmovingimage
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
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