Born in Schwaz, Austria in 1986, he is a filmmaker and photographer who has explored universal themes of painful personal history, loss, and the search for identity through poetic realism. He has directed the short films Four Seasons (2018), At Night When Mice Scream (2021), and Magma (2022), as well as the short documentary Richard (2024). His debut feature Eklipse, co-written with Bernhard Jarosch, won the Carl Mayer Screenplay Prize at the 2022 Diagonale Film Festival. Eklipse, an autobiographical work drawn from his personal experience, had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival.
