Robert Seidel (Germany, 1977) began studying biology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and finished his media design diploma at the Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). In his films Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of organic beauty and their emotional perception with visual and scientific technology.

_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally. The tableaux vivants of growing structures branch out over 10:01 minutes, a reference to the binary system by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, where he ascribes 1 to god and 0 to evil. Every element originates from real experiences and is adapted from Seidel’s sketches, his own body fragments or scientific visualization methods. The musical framework connects the memories born out of the dramatic moment to clusters. These are unleashed from the image flux partially - to ease the desired, free associations of the beholder… (Robert Seidel)