In Kohlberger's second film that could be considered narrative driven, the artist fashions a dystopian fiction from the remnants of cinema's past. Drawing on excerpts from obscure sci-fi films, THE ELECTRIC KISS imagines a world not unlike our own, in which people plug their brains into a kind of neuro-network that connects the whole of human consciousness. As cyberpunk imagery draped in VHS textures alternates with passages of prismatic visual noise.
Is an Austrian-born freelance visual artist and filmmaker living in Berlin;
his work is primarily based on algorithmic compositions with reductionist aesthetics influenced by flatness, drones, and interference.
Filmography
2013 humming, fast and slow
2015 moon blink
2016 not even nothing can be free of ghosts
2017 keep that dream burning
2018 more than everything
2019 it has to be lived once and dreamed twice
2020 There must be some kind of way out of here
2022 Answering the Sun
2024 The Electric Kiss
