DEMIENRAPP
I make things because I can't do otherwise. Electronics, code, film, photo, 3D printing, not as a specialisation, but because every project needs the tools it needs. I walk into rooms where I'm the least experienced person, and leave when that's no longer true.
Work · 2024 → 2026
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A cheap children's camera taken apart and rebuilt through circuit bending, it renders glitched, noisy, intensely colourful images. He shot Düsseldorf's main station with it, no post-processing.
Circuit bending: deliberately short-circuiting and altering a device's electronics to turn unpredictable malfunctions into an artistic effect.
A drama about twins raised apart, and Demien's first large film. He was director of photography, camera, stills and part of the direction; it premiered at the Metropol Kino Düsseldorf.
His own entry "2491" takes a critical look at surveillance. On "Last Slice" he was cameraman and technical lead, and that film won the Audience Award.
Co-organiser of the Uncut Award at the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, technology, presentation, social media. Taking place 10 October 2026.
I'm here to solve problems. Got one? Write me.
Artistic projects · exhibitions · commissions & gigs · or just a conversation.
Self-built tools
Finished, usable tools, not works in progress. Published on GitHub, and part of the signature you see across this site.
Compression Unit
A tool for visual effects: controlled JPEG artefacts and compression "damage".
GitHub ↗Displacement Unit
A brutalist signal processor: pixels displaced by luminance from images, video or a live camera.
GitHub ↗