Manuel Knapp

Biography

Artist, musician, and filmmaker. Born in 1978. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2002) and computer music and electroacoustic media at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2005). In 2007, he won the Diagonale prize for Best Experimental Film; in 2008 he made the festival’s trailer. He has won accolades at, and taken part in, numerous film festivals, including Ann Arbor, Lausanne, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Osna…