Nikolaus Jantsch

Nikolaus Jantsch is a media artist based in Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 2006. Since 2012, he has been the head of the animation department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he also studied. In 2016, he established the "Angewandte Animation Award" for students at the "under radar" festival. Since 2019, he has served as the animation festival manager at the Pixel Vienna Festival. Additionally, he is a member of the postrock band Thalija. Awards: Best Super Short Film Paris Film Awards Animation RUNNER-UP Lit Laughs International Comedy Film Festival Best Comedy Short Florence Film Awards Best Super Short Film Cannes World Film Festival Best Story at Feedback Toronto Comedy and Screenplay Festival Best Dark Comedy Avalonia Short Films Festival - Florida Best Soundtrack - Output Filmfestival, Denmark Special Mention in the Experimental category of the 18th Athens Animfest 2023  FIA Festival Internacional de Animación – best experimental animation short THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM" at the Tindirindis Filmfestival / VilniusBest Original Soundtrack - the Miami Short International Cinefest / USA Paris Animation Award - best experimental short Singapore International CINEVERSE Film Festival Award Presentations, screenings & exhibitions: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2025 The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival (NY) Belgrade International Film Festival Vienna International Film Awards Alpine International Film Festival A Night Of Misfit Films Clones Film Festival Short Fiction, Animation & Documentary Competition (Ireland) Austrian Filmfestival shnit worldwide shortsfestival International Tour Film Festival (Rome) Festival of Nations (Lenzing) Ha Ha Harvest Comedy and Film Festival (Hoboken, NJ) LA Comedy Shorts Pineapple Animation Festival (Marbella) Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, BC (US) International Short Film Festival Kalmthout (Belgium) Nordic Star Festival (Sweden) Drunken Film Festival Bradford (Uk) PiFF Pinerolo Film Festival (Italy) CIM Sueca (Valencia) Sapporo International Short Film Festival Hamminkelner Kurzfilmfestival International Tour Film Festival (Rome) The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival (NY) Austrian Filmfestival The Lake County Film Festival IL. Madrid Indie Film Festival • MADRIFF Caorle Film Festival (Italy) Insomnia International Animation Film Festival Shnit worldwide shortfilmfestival UltraLove Fest (Italy) Festival of Nations - Filmclub Attergau BUT Film Festival (Breda, NL) International Short Film Festival Detmold taSHORTfest 2025 (Barcelona) Brighton Rocks International Film Festival Eichsfelder Filmfestival 01st Watch Shorts London International Low & No Budget Film sharing festival (Stuttgart) MLC Awards of Green Bay (USA) Caostica 23. International Shortfilm and Music Video Festival (Bilbao) EuroShorts-Filmfestival (Dortmund) Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest FESTIVAL ANGAELICA (USA) Athens ANIMFEST Cortisonici International Short Film Festival MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival ANIMATIBA - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE ANIMAÇÃO DE CURITIBA Anima Brussels International Animation Film Festival Underdog Film Festival Wolfsburg Independent Film Awards - Leeds PNN Academy Comedy Track Film Festival (Beverly Hills, CA.) Your Way International Film Festival (Malta) Cookies and Comedy Film Festival - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2024 Pineapple Animation Festival Cannes World Film Festival FEEDBACK Toronto Comedy Filmfestival FESTIVAL DELLA COMMEDIA Pulcinella FilmFest (Neaples) Giggle Film Festival (London) Open Vault Film Festival (Toronto) T-short Animated film Festival (Karlsruhe) OUTPUT Film Festival (Denmark) London International Cineverse Film Festival MAX3MIN - Very Short Film Festival (Italy) Venus Filmfestival (Spain) Annual Duck and Red Octopus Festival (USA) VAF Viborg International Animation Festival Marin County Fair International Festival of Short Film & Video Cinema Talks Athens ANIMFEST Rome Music Video Awards Trollywood Animation Festival The Poppy Jasper International Film Festival 2023 Anilogue International Animation Festival ArteNonStopFestival /BA2024 Balkanima - European Animated Film Festival Paris Animation Awards New York Animation Film Awards (NYAFA) Rex Animationfestival CINEM’AMOSTR Festival Balkanima Filmfest Altenburg Festival Animur Supertoon Filmfestival FIlpbook Film Festival Ernte Sehen 2023 Filmfestival FESTIVAL ANGAELICA Melbourne International Animation Festival Under the Radar MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Gathering Athens Animfest Anifilm International Festival of animated films Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg 2022 FIA Festival Internacional de Animación – best experimental animation short TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival Cinematika Festival Anilogue International Animation Festival 13th Cairo Animation Forum Insomnia International Animation Film Festival Festival del Cinema di Cefalu Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Art Festival Trickfilmfestival Düsseldorf Animur International Animation Film Festival Midwest Video Poetry Fest Fest Anca Vaf Viborg Animationfestival Rex Animationfestival La Poesia che si vede – International video poetry competition Ancona 2021 Zeitimpuls shortfilm Fest Anca Animateka Anima Caribe Cadence Video Poetry Festival 9th International Poetry Festival 2020 Royal Paris Animation Award Aniloque Budapest Animateka Midwest Video Poetry Fest FIA Festival Internacional de Animación The 2020 Film and Poetry Symposium Under Radar The Animattikon Project 5th Chaniartoon 2020 Cadence Video Poetry Festival Poetry Filmfestival Vienna Helios Sun Poetry Festival 2019 Acousmonium Festical (Saint Petersburg) Flagey – semaine de la musique Brussels 2018 Animation Illustration Festival Viff- Vienna Independent Film Festival Musicacoustica Beijing Beligian Music Days Leuven San Mauro Filmfestival - Turin 2017 Austrian Filmfestival / Vienna The World Animation Celebration / Los Angeles Frame by Sound Festival / Santo Domingo - semifinalist InShort Film Festival / London Kurzfilmfestival Wörgl BlackBox Short Film Festival / Switzerland Nottingham International Film Fest Katra Film Series / New York Kinosommer Villach Obsessive Underground Festival / Hamburg FotoFilm Tijuana / Mexico Short Film Breaks – Bucharest Szczecin European Film Festival (SEFF) Under radar Filmfestival 2017 Backup Kurzfilmfestival Weimar Golden Kuker - The International Animation Film Festival / Sofia 2 visages de la musique électroacoustique: Vidéomusique / Brussels IN|DUST|REAL|Video Art / Romania Animated Spirits New Animation from Europe / New York Ars Electronica - Deep Space Anifilm - Trebon / CZ Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne / Australia Animateka Animation Filmfestival Inshort Film Festival 2 Days Animation Festival Animation Marathon The World Animation Celebration BlackBox Short Film Festival Katra Film Series FotoFilm Tijuana Obsessive Filmmakers Beach Festival Insomnia International Animation Film Festival New York Film Week Video Art Event backup & beyond 2019 Fylde Film Festival Third Culture Film Festival StarBest Film Festival Flatpack Filmfestival Crossing Europe Filmfestival 2016 award "THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM" at the Tindirindis Filmfestival / Vilnius award "Best Original Soundtrack" at the Miami Short International Cinefest / USA semifinalist at the „Colorlab’s Summer Shorts Contest“, Rockwill, Maryland/ USA Animateka Animation Filmfestival Piccolo Festival of Animation / Italy Festival „Experimental Superstars“ Novi Sad/ Serbia Short to the Point Festival, Bucharest Romania Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Hong Kong Trenton Art night Under radar filmfestival Kunsthalle Darmstadt Kinosommer Villach Festival Mutoscopio Feel the Reel International Film Festival CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Filmfestival Grand IndieWise Convention Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos Grand off – World Independent Short Filmfestival Locomotion Experimental Animation Festival Miami Short International Cinefest Festival Corometrajes Jose Francisco Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival 2015 Dot dot dot Filmfestival visionXsound 2015 Under Radar Screening Topkino Crossing Europe Vienna Independent Shorts Animated Dreams Festival – Tallin/Estland, 3 Austrian Animated Experiments – 30 Years ASIFA AUSTRIA Metrokino Vienna 2014 Freies Kino – Künstlerhaus 2013 Animate it! Kurator der Ausstellung/ Kro Art 2012 Emmentaler Filmtage Flensburger Kurzfilmtage Asifakeil Museumsquartier Künstlerhauskino 2011 30 Jahre Malerei in Bewegung; Animationsfilm an der Angewandten Filmcasino One day Animationfilmfestival Content award Vienna 2010 Animation in Österreich – Eine Geschichte des österreichischen Animationsfilms Metro Kino 23. Stuttgarter Filmwinter MIAF – Melbourne International Animation Festival Screening Künstlerhauskino – multiple matters Graphische Konzepte London International Animation Festival Filmcasino – tribute to Niki Jantsch Künstlerhaus – Videogalerie Einzelausstellung Festiwal Kregi Sztuki 2009 Diagonale 2009 Collectif de jeune cinema screening (Paris) AKH Contemporary, Wien gemeinsam mit Florian Nährer und Philipp Wegan K3 Internationales Kurzfilmfestival 2008 Premier Plans Anger Filmfestival Vienna Independent Shorts 2008 Dresdner Schmalfilmtage AMIRANI International Student Annual Film Festival (Georgien) Gruppenausstellung in der Burg Forchtenstein screensessions im Filmkasino Festival de Cine de Girona (Spanien) Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest La.Meko Filmfestival 2008 (Landau) zwergWERK – die 8. Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage Künstlerhaus Videogalerie – Lichtgestalten Kunsthalle Wien – Screening Animadrid08 2007 Cosmic Zoom 2007 (Dänemark) EMAF 2007 (Deutschland) Athens Video Artfestival Vienna Independent Shorts 2007 Einzelausstellung in der MA Villach aniMOTION animation festival (Romänien) International short film festival “Byala reka” (Bulgarien) Aurora Filmfestival Norwich Digital Long Island Media Festival, New York Encounters Filmfestival (Bristol, Uk) Backup-filmfestival Weimar Leeds International Filmfestival The International Film and Video Festival Filofest (Slovenia) 2006 Tiburon International Film Festival (USA) Presentation of Animationfilms of the last 2 years at the Kunsthalle Wien Essence 06 at the Museum für angewandte Kunst Tampere Film Market Cracow Film Market Screening bei der Vienna Art Afair Screening im Künstlerhaus Così fan tutte Vienna Shortfilmfestival Finished diploma with distinction Ion Venice Filmfestival with honorable mentions Futursonic 2006, Urban Festival of Electronic Music and Art (UK) International Festival of Animated Films TINDIRINIS Norwich International Filmfestival (UK) Teilnahme am Filmfestival „Filmriss06“ in Salzburg 2005 Animationsfestival Anima05 in Argentinien mit dem Film „International Electron“ Präsentation des Films „International electron“ beim Filmfestival Vienna Independent Shorts Ausstellung in den Hofstallungen des Museumsquartiers im Rahmen des Walter Koschatzky Kunstpreises Ausstellung an der Universität für angewandte Kunst unter dem Thema Zauberei und Illusion Teilnahme an der Essence 2005 mit den Animationsfilmen „Stay at home“ und „fever dream“ Gewinner des Stiegl Braukunst Wettbewerbs Präsentation des Filmes „Fever Dream“ im Kunstforum Wien im Rahmen der langen Nacht der Museen Filmpräsentation in der Galerie Blaugelbezwettl Soundinstallation Home at Tent / TENT. Centrum beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam (NL) Teilnahme am Filmfestival „Filmriss05“ in Salzburg 2004 Begabungsstipendium der Universität für angewandte Kunst Teilnahme an der Ausstellung „Märchen auf den Kopf gestellt“ Galerie Stadtbild „Elixiere des Lebens“ Ausstellung an der Universität für angewandte Kunst 2003 „Prägungsmuster“, Wandarbeit; Soho in Ottakring, Depot Klaus Engelhorn, "Als die Frau die Welt erschuf" mit Versteigerung der Werke zu karitativen Zwecken, Orangerie Schloss "JAGT DEN FUCHS" shown at the Künstlerhauskino Illustration eines Beitrages für das kanadische Magazin "matter“ für den Beitrag: "at the heart of the matter: situationsim: bullshiting your way through life as an artist" 2002 Präsentation im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Gestaltungslehre bei Prof. Herzig an der Universität für angewandte Kunst ___________________________________________________________________ Wolke 7 Kurzfilmfestival: Kategorie Experimentalfilm Von den zwölf experimentelleren Filmarbeiten, die zum Großteil in Österreich entstanden sind, ist besonders ein Super-8-Film von Niki Jantsch hervorzuheben, der im Wiener Studio für experimentellen Animationsfilm entstanden ist und schon im Mai bei Vienna Independent Shorts zu sehen war. (Quelle: http://www.independentcinema.at/newsseptember05.html)