Crossing Europe Festival Trailer 2025: CYBER SWAMP
Directed by: Dagmar Schürrer • AT 2025 • 1 min
Sound: Chris Imler - "Liturgy of Litter"
A digital avatar moves slowly through a computer-generated landscape, reminiscence of a swamp forest, but highly stylized, glossy and artificial. Drawn by an unseen force, the humanoid figure dives into a monotonous swim through the cyber swamp — trapped in an infinite loop, as if caught within the machine.
For the 2025 festival trailer, Crossing Europe was able to recruit the renowned media artist Dagmar Schürrer, to whom a Special was dedicated in last year’s edition’s Local Artists program section. A native of Upper Austria, she lives in Berlin and works in the field of expanded animation as well as with extended reality (XR) technologies. Her works have been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and the Diagonale in Graz, among others. An artistic associate and workshop instructor for XR development at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin since 2018, she became a member of the board of the medienkunstverein Berlin in 2021.
The festival trailer will be used to promote the festival on the internet, on social media, and in Austrian arthouse cinemas.