Philipp Groth

Philipp Groth is a film director, artist and lecturer based in London (UK) and Berlin (GER). After collaborations with the David Lynch Foundation in Los Angeles and Louis Vuitton's Virgil Abloh in Milan as well as exhibitions at the Tate Modern London and KÖNIG Gallery Tokyo, "acte tm studio" was founded as his Berlin residency. Since then he's been serving the studio as the executive director and CEO. In 2018 he took on a lecturer position at the design academy in Berlin where he teaches Film Production and Film Directing. My practise combines the form of narrative techniques and documentary with a spacial experience into imaginary journeys. In my film and sculpture work I am particularly interested in questions and issues of identity in everyday life. I consider my installations as pre-designed reception spaces in which I explore what it means to be a character and what it means to have a story. In all of my work, whether digital or physical, I am largely committed to film because it automatically and immediately brings up the issue of representation by its very nature. Tools of documentary allow me to challenge and reimagine fundamentalist thinking beyond the obvious and superficial, closly engaging with the subject in my practise, while I adapt fictional, cinematic parameters to shift the perspectives through which we experience social realism. As an artist, I am committed to experimental methods of interaction and engagement with art beyond its traditional reception. I explore how to stage a film so it invites people to immerse themselves in a very direct way.