Niklas Poweleit (he/him) works in the field of experimental film. Shaped by contemporary imaging processes, his films explore visual worlds that resist conventional representation by distancing the process of image creation from human intention. Niklas Poweleit lives and works in Germany.
2025
Volume
360 VR Film 9' No Dialogue Color AmbiX 2025
World Premiere: DOK Neuland: Immaterial – DOK Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Germany, 2025.
She Said: ?!
Music Video 2' No Dialogue Color Stereo 2025
World Premiere: URTIcanti International Music Film & Video Festival, Italy, 2025
Best Videoclip: Moonlight Short Film Fest, Italy, 2025
AI Film 3 – AI Film and Art Festival Arizona, USA, 2025
The Unknown painting
Documentary 11' English Color 5.1 2024
World Premiere: FICCI – 64. Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, Colombia, 2025
Best Short-Documentary 2024–2025: Rome Prisma Film Awards, Italy, 2025
65th Zlín Film Festival – International Film Festival for children and youth, Czech Republic, 2025
Apriti Cinema: Notti di Mezza Estate – Lo schermo dell'arte, Italy, 2025
CFF – Castiglioni Film Festival, Italy, 2025
Plons! International Short Documentary Film Festival, Netherlands, 2025
FIDBA – International Documentary Film Festival Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2025
Rezyklierung
Animation 1' No Dialogue Color Stereo 2023
Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery, Galerie Met, Germany, 2025
Animation for Opera of Horror and Salvation
Short Film Directed by Anastasia Veber 20' English Color 5.1 2023
Video Editing
Teaching Hochschule Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences Germany 2023–2025
2024
My Figurative Self
Essay 4' German Color Stereo 2024
Bilderbeben: Short Film Competition Bielefeld, Germany, 2024
The new power of images: journalistic responsibility and documentary work in times of AI and fake news
Panel Discussion Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Germany 2024
Andromeda – Who destroyed Nord Stream?
Mockumentary 7' German Color Stereo 2023
IM KASTEN – Short Film Festival Lüneburg, Germany, 2024
20minmax – International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Germany, 2024
2023
Nouvelle Bug Vol. 2
International avant-garde cinema residency Italy 2023
Co-Production and Distribution Award for The Unknown Painting
Rezyklierung
Animation 1' No Dialogue Color Stereo 2023
State of the Art 14, Germany, 2023
Andromeda – Who destroyed Nord Stream?
Mockumentary 7' German Color Stereo 2023
World Premiere: SHORTS – Trinational FilmFestival Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, 2023
44. European Film Festival Göttingen. Germany, 2023
Unbelievable Images. How are deceptively real AI fake evidence images created?
Workshop BA Design HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts 2023
Introduction to AI Image Generation using Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111
Workshop BA Design HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts 2023
Studies, you have changed.
Documentary 11' German Color Stereo 2022
World Premiere: SHORTS – Trinational FilmFestival Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany, 2023
Honorable Mention: Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Germany, 2023
DOKFILMSCHAU Hildesheim. Germany, 2023