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Christoph Runné
Vancouver, BC, Canada | christoph_runne@yahoo.com | +1 604 783 7948
Profile
Experimental film, video, and installation artist based in Vancouver. My work explores perception, natural phenomena, and the human condition through analogue and digital moving imagery — spanning 16mm, Super 8, interactive digital, and video installation.
Awards & Recognition
2024 Special Jury Award — Makizhmithran International Film Festival (Out Yonder)
2024 Best Experimental Short — Phoenix Shorts (Out Yonder)
2024 Award Winner — Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival (Out Yonder)
2024 Honorable Mention — Neum Underwater Film Festival (Out Yonder)
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2026 3HKP Germany Vulcan Eifel outdoor exhibition Portraits series 2026 edit
2025 Out Yonder-Nature & Culture: International Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen — official selection; included in international distribution catalogue
2024–2025 Out Yonder — international educational screening program, screened in 100+schools, Ukraine
2024 Out Yonder — video installation
2018 Tree-Baum — 16mm multi-projector installation, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
2017 Africa — 16mm film installation, Berlin
2016 Crevice — Super 8 installation, InterUrban Gallery / Western Front / Strathcona Community Centre, Vancouver
2013 Baum — 16mm installation, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
2012 The Symbolic Meaning of Tree, 16mm Film installation Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
2012 Baum — 16mm installation, Tina B., Italian Embassy / National Gallery Basement, Prague
2010 Portraits, Blair Bush Project, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver 16mm Film installation
2009 Portraits — installation, Mikkeli Art Museum, Finland
2009 Ovoids — installation (curator), InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
2008 The Blair/Bush Project — installation, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna
2008 Unfolding — 16mm film, Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver
2007 Portraits — installation, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Unfolding — 16mm film, Winnipeg Film Centre
2006 The Blair/Bush Project — 16mm installation, National Gallery Basement, Prague
2005 Constructing Olympia — 16mm installation, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
2004 River Run — interactive digital installation, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
2004 River Home — interactive digital installation, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver
2003 Untitled — 16mm installation, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Wind — digital video installation, Video In, Vancouver
2001 Kommeta Komma — Super 8 installation, Zirkus Locomotive, Gotland, Sweden
2001 Resident Ghosts — commissioned digital installation
2000 A Good Meal — 16mm installation, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
2000 Synopsis — 16mm film, Mallorca, Spain
1999 Selected Works, super 8 and 16mm film Zirkus Locomotive Studio, Stockholm
1996 A Good Meal — 16mm installation, Experimental Film Festival, Berlin
1996 Arri — 16mm film, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
1995 Niebelungenland — 16mm film, Eiszeit Kino, Berlin
1993 Mother's Little Helper — Super 8 film, Microcinemas, Berlin
1991 Dove -Super 8 film, Microcinemas, Berlin
1989 Cow-Super 8 film, Microcinemas, Berlin
Grants
2010 BC Arts Council — Portraits, Blair Bush Project, InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver
Professional Experience
2016–present Vice President, Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
Teaching
2006–present: Emily Carr University — 16mm hand-processing workshops
2005–present: Instructor, Experimental Video Group, Life skills Centre, Vancouver
1999–2022: Instructor, Optical Printing & Handmade Filmmaking, Simon Fraser University
Education
1995-2001: Film Studies, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
1981: Certificate of Fine Furniture Making, Karlsruhe, Germany