Michael J. Keplinger, BSc: I do a bit of whole lot of everything. I am an Austrian filmmaker, musician & designer with a keen interest in the interweaving of different creative threads. Holding degrees in Media Technology as well as Graphic & Communication Design, I am a UAS lecturer and sole proprietor of MJK media. I believe in the diversity of culture, art and media and that the creative process becomes particularly intriguing when different and complex currents of thought converge.
See: capabilities | work | education | honors | press | festivals | contact
Capabilities
Film
directing, editing, compositing, sound recording & design, set & production experience, budgeting
Audio
music composition, production, mixing, music theory, various instruments, film scoring
Coding
programming, web development, interactive design, node based media development, SEO
Design
typography, print design, web design, image editing & compositing, illustration, motion design
Work
→ incl. lecturer: Interdisciplinary Project Work
→ incl. lecturer: Film and TV II
Teaching and research assistant: c-tv
→ incl. lecturer: c-tv Creative Content Channel
Education
Bachelor thesis: Stereoraum: Virtuelle Räumlichkeit der Stereomusikproduktion
1st place: Golden Wire (media prize, sound & music) (2023)
Merit scholarships (2021, 2022, 2023)
Nomination: Golden Wire (media prize, short film),
Adobe Premiere Pro certificates (2021)
Tutor: Basics of Mathematics and Physics (2020–21)
Thesis: Gestaltung & technische Umsetzung einer Website (…) (2020)
Diploma thesis: Musikalbum: grafische Gestaltung & mediale Präsentation (2019)
Honors
(for Passing Through)
Nomination/2nd place: Film & TV production category
(for For A While, director: Kilian Mayer)
Nomination: remarkable sound design
Nomination: remarkable picture design
Nomination: remarkable filmic narrative
(for Allerseelen)
🏆 Special award: a remarkable idea (with Simona Ascher)
🏆 Special award: remarkable camera (Niklas Strahammer)
(for Allerseelen)
(for Allerseelen)
excerpts of the Jury’s statement: a “touch of noir”, “a true acting gem” & “excellent direction and music”
(for Allerseelen)
(for Allerseelen)
(for Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me))
🏆 Special award: remarkable idea
(for Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me))
(for Allerseelen)
(for Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me))
Press
16 May 2022
29 April 2022
28 April 2022
25 January 2022
9/10 December 2021
6 December 2021
27 November 2021
3 November 2021
27 October 2021
11 October 2021
11 October 2021
10 October 2021
10 October 2021
September 2020
27 July 2018
24 February 2017
24 September 2016
Festivals
short film For A While (director: Kilian Mayer)
St. Pölten, Austria
Eisenstadt, Austria
Katsdorf, Austria
music video Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me)
short film TALKING or (a postmodern approach to discussion)
Pune, India
Budapest, Hungary
Vienna, Austria
San Sebastián, Spain
Moscow, Russia
short films Begehren (director: Niklas Strahammer)
Slough, UK
Sofia, Bulgaria
London, UK
Fieberbrunn, Austria
Linz, Austria
Wals/Siezenheim, Austria
Turkey/Online
St. Pölten, Austria
short film TALKING or (a postmodern approach to discussion)
Vienna, Austria
North Hempstead, New York, USA
Chía, Colombia
short film TALKING or (a postmodern approach to discussion)
Mumbai, India
Moscow, Russia
Madrid, Spain
Great Neck, New York, USA
Venice, Italy
music video Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me)
Honorable Mention, respectively
Belgrade, Serbia
documentary Ensemble (Musik in Stadt und Land)
Fukuoka, Japan
Linz, Austria
Exhibition Comic Collage Cut
Linz, Austria
Contact
If you’d like to talk about a project, an idea, ask a question,
or just want to say hallo – let’s talk: