Astrogolem

About Director

⁣Thorsten Fleisch was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1972. He began experimenting with Super 8 film while at highschool where he also exhibited his first film, a Super 8 loop. After highschool and community service in an institution for the mentally ill he went to Marburg to study art, music and media at Phillips Universität. one year later he changed to the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main in order to study film with prof. Peter Kubelka. there he started working with 16mm film. Shortly after his studies at the Städelschule he made 'Blutrausch / Bloodlust' which not only got him a lot of attention but also the Ann Arbor filmcoop award. He received several grants among them a grant from the Filmbüro NW, Filmförderungsanstalt and a grant from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema. For 'Gestalt' he received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica the number one festival for computer related art. His films have been screened at film festivals wordwide including New York Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Transmediale, Int. Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Melbourne Int. Film Festival and many more. Red Bull, Gaspar Noé, Basement Jaxx and Prenzlauer Berlinale have comissioned work. For the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Vienna Shorts and Punto Y Raya he has been a jury member. He now lives and works in Berlin.