Austria

As a filmmaker who works outside the frame, Manu Luksch has been researching the effects of emerging technologies on daily life, social relations, urban space, and political structures. Currently, as Resident Artist at The School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London and Somerset House London, she is investigating the rise of the 'Algorithmic City', with a focus on corporate-governmental relationships and the social effects of predictive analytics. Her films and art works are included, amongst others, in the Collection de Centre Pompidou, the BFI National Archive, and the Core Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and were awarded Best Feature Documentary, Moscow International Documentary Film Festival 2016; Best Film, Austrian Film Critics Awards 2017; Best Feature Documentary Soundtrack, DOK.fest Munich 2016; ELEVATE Artivism Award 2015; Marianne.von.Willemer Prize for Digital Art 2012, City of Linz /Ars Electronica Centre.

Filmography

Virtual Borders (2001)
Broadbandit Highway (2001)
Faceless (2007)
Sympathetic Nervous System (2009)
Unknown Territories (2014)
Dreams Rewired (2015 - co-directed with Martin Reinhart & Thomas Tode)
Third Quarterly Report (2016)
ALGO-RHYTHM (2019)
Contagious Whisper (2020 - co-directed with Scott Kildall)