Born in Donostia-San Sebastián in 1981, Diploma in History from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France), and Diploma of Media Art by the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (Germany).

Since 2009 she has been a photographer, as well as producing her own film work - "Die Hüter der Waren", "The Day when the Fools are gone", "Lettre de Werderplatz", "The sea is an oblivion, a song, a lip" - which have been shown at festivals such as doclisboa and DOK.fest München.

2010-2011 was she member of the Migrant Image Research Group, among others with Prof. Armin Linke and Lisa Bergmann, working in Rome, Sicily and Lampedusa for the show "Lampedusa, The Day After" in Villa Romana, Florenz.

She worked on the museum communication of the ZKM Karlsruhe - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien -, as well as a film curator for the Kinemathek Karlsruhe and as a member of the selection committee for the dokKA festival for documentary.

She was also involved until 2018 in the production of the film "A New Environment - Heinrich Klotz on Architecture and New Media" by Christian Haardt, which was shown at the international competition of doclsiboa in 2019 and at BAFICI in Buenos Aires in 2021.

2021-22 she was the HfG main coordinator for the festival Driving the Human in cooperation with the ZKM, about visions for shaping a sustainable collective future in the field of tension between science, technology and art.

Currently she is directing the Zeitbild-Lab platform for the production and distribution of films from the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe and working also there as equal opportunities representative.

Zeitbild-Lab.

The Zeitbild-Lab, founded 2019 by Răzvan Rădulescu, Christine Reeh-Peters and João Tabarra, sees itself as a platform for artistic film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung - HfG, which aims to train future filmmakers, who produce artistic films for both – the cinema and the art context.

The Zeitbild-Lab aims to promote student film projects, to contribute to their distribution and visibility at festivals in Germany and abroad, and to strengthen the teaching of the artistic cinema film at the HfG in the form of guests and workshops as well as in contact with the cinephile film industry and art scene.

Laura Morcillo ist runnig the Zeitbild-Lab since 2019, in collaboration with Filmmakers as Prof. Serpil Turhan, Prof. Fred Kelemen and Prof. Dane Komljen, among others, as well as other external guests as Carmen Beckenbach, Melissa de Raaf and Philipp Hartmann.

After producing a few films, which have been shown in international film festivals, Zeitbild-Lab was presenting 2022 this first films of the platform in a film festival with an Open-Air Cinema, curated with other films from our film archive, celebrating the success of the platform and the 30th anniversary of the HfG.

Please have a look at the programm with trailers here And here the trailer of the Filmfestival (under "25 Juni" 2022).

In several annual pitches, students can apply for funding for their projects. Each project has the possibility to apply again for future Calls and receive support in different phases of the project, if necessary. Whether it receives support more than once will depend on the set of projects submitted in each call.

Before sending the applications, it is requested to make several appointments with at least one of the professors and one more with Laura Morcillo, in order to get to know the project and receive advice on how to prepare the application. This facilitates our work and is equally useful for your project.

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The Zeitbild-Lab is a platform founded in the spring of 2019 by Prof. Răzvan Rădulescu, Dr. Christine Reeh-Peters and Prof. João Tabarra, which offers organizational and financial support for student film projects. Laura Morcillo, Academic Associate in the Department of Media Art, is curator and head coordinator of the Lab. We are delighted to have Prof. Filipa César and Prof. Susanne Kriemann on this call for the first time. In two annual pitches students can apply for funding for their projects. Guests from the cinephil film industry and art scene are also regularly invited to further network our Lab.

12th Call NEWS UPDATE 20241205_ZBL_12th Call Decisions_HfG-Press

Dear students,

thank you for submitting your projects to our call and for the presentations on Friday, 15th November 2024.

The jury has concluded to support several projects in this call. The jury members have been:

• Prof. Marine Hugonnier (Professor for Moving Image and Fictional Form, HfG Karlsruhe)
• Prof. Charlotte Eifler (Professor for Mixed Realities, HfG Karlsruhe)
• Laura Morcillo (Academic Associate for Media Art - Film, HfG Karlsruhe)
• Isabel Winter (Media Art Student, HfG Karlsruhe)
• Maya Schweizer (Filmmaker, Visual artist, Berlin)

We are glad to announce support for the following projects:

"Birdhouse", Pauline Cemeris and Sebastian Schönfeld 1.100,00 € (Travel / Transport)

„The Art of Stealing“, Alejandra Janus 1.000,00 € (Recherche / Travel / Transport)

„Theodor & das Wesen“, Knut Kuhles 1.000,00 € (Travel /Transport, Accommodation)

„Mothers“, Minsu Kim 1.700,00 € (Travel /Transport, Accommodation)

"Sekret" (AT), Wiebke Mueller 1.200,00 € (Travel / Transport, Accommodation)

„Onkel Thuan“, Minh Anh Nguyen 2.500,00 € (Travel / Transport, Accommodation)

„Wellen“, Jakob Suranovsky 1.000,00 € (Water construction + Film material)

„Wand, in den Raum hinein zermalt“, Yunsung Lee 400,00 € (Postproduction costs)

„Katharsis“, Kevin Beckmann 3.000,00 € (Transport, Scenography and Props)

„I is a crowd“ (AT), Jette Schwabe and Lina Dettermann 800,00 € (Transport,Scenography and Props)

We ask the students of the selected projects to contact me (Laura Morcillo, lmorcillo(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de) when you receive the news of the decisions and before making new expenses.

It is necessary to make an agreement with the Zeitbild-Lab and clarify the rules for spending this money.

One of the rules, for example, is that there is a period of one semester to spend the money on this project; which can be extended if good reasons are provided in advance. This helps us to have a more concrete overview of which other projects, besides the production projects from the calls, can be supported during each semester, e.g. for the application to Festivals. Please note for these projects the 15th April 2025 as the final date for using the amounts granted.

Mrs. Augustin (Marion Augustin > marion.augustin(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de) and Mrs. Gebhard (Birgit Gebhard > bgebhard(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de) provide support in financial matters as well (also under > rechnungswesen(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de).

Apart from this, it is very important for the Zeitbild-Lab that all students who have submitted projects contact soon the professors, talk about the reasons for the decisions taken, and receive further detailed advice and support about their project. I can also offer consultation hours if required. We, therefore, ask you to inform us/Zeitbild-Lab regularly about the development of your projects and send us material (Stills, Trailer, etc) when you have it, for the Filmarchive and Website, for our documentation and in order to support you further in the future. Each project has the possibility to apply again for future Calls and receive support in different phases of the project, if necessary. Whether it receives support more than once will depend on the set of projects submitted in each call.

Please note that the 13th Call will take place in April 2025. The exact date will be announced weeks in advance. Applications can be submitted between now and 1st April 2025. Before sending the applications, it is requested to make several appointments with at least one of the professors and one more with me, in order to get to know the project and receive advice on how to prepare the application. This facilitates our work and is equally useful for your project. You will find the current informations generally on the HfG-Website under >https://hfg-karlsruhe.de/personen/laura-morcillo/

All the best for you and your projects, on behalf Laura Morcillo /// Zeitbild-Lab ///

Gender Equality Representative - Equal opportunities and diversity at the HfG

https://hfg-karlsruhe.de/en/hochschule/organe-und-gremien/gleichstellungsbeauftragte/

https://hfg-karlsruhe.de/en/aktuelles/2024-neues-gleichstellungs-team/