“David Baeumler combines his talent for oddball, poetic texts, sophisticated visual collage, and comic-style performances, to create strange and moving film poems.”
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, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
BA, Film, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1992. Studied with Peter Hutton, Adolfas Mekas, and Peggy Ahwesh.
Recurring co-host, 1990–91. A weekly live public-access video project initiated by Tony Conrad, Cathleen Steffan, and Ann Szyjka, staged every Friday at noon on the steps of Buffalo City Hall in protest of Buffalo’s lack of a public-access facility. It ran 1990–93 and produced over 250 hour-long broadcasts, and is collected by the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Adjunct Professor, Film & Video Production, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, 2008.