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Maria Mayland (*1988) is a visual artist and self-taught filmmaker. She obtained her MFA from Basel’s Art Institute and took part in KKH Stockholm's postgraduate program Philosophy in the Context of Art, taught by Peter Osborne.
Her short films are shown at festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Screenings include International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, IDFA Amsterdam, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, transmediale Berlin, Edinburgh Film Festival and Sharjah Film Platform.
She received the German Short Film Award 2022 for Lamarck, the EMAF Media Art Award of the German Film Critics' Association, the 3sat Young Talent Award in the German Competition and twice the prize for the best entry in the NRW competition of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. She lives and works in Mannheim.
Outside (2024)
Lamarck (2022)
Michael Ironside and I (2021)
Dunkelfeld / Dark Figure (2020)
Untitled (a refusal of leave to land) (2019)
A bar on Majorca / Eine Kneipe auf Malle (2017)
Driving around where the crescents used to be. A script (2015)
