David Baeumler is an artist working in moving image whose films blend experimental collage, found footage, and digital interventions to explore memory, perception, and existential uncertainty. Across a body of work spanning nearly three decades, his films return again and again to questions of identity, disconnection, and what might be called ontological vertigo: the feeling of the ground shifting beneath what we thought we knew about ourselves and the world.

His work has screened at festivals and galleries around the world including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives, Vienna Shorts, the Biennale of Sydney, the Biennial of Moving Images Geneva, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. He studied filmmaking at Bard College under Peter Hutton, Adolfas Mekas, and Peggy Ahwesh, and co-hosted “Studio of the Streets” with Tony Conrad in Buffalo, NY.