The EMAF mourns the loss of Rotraut Pape
The EMAF has a long relationship and friendship with Rotraut Pape. She advised the festival and exhibited trend-setting works in Osnabrück.
Rotraut saw her cinematic and video works as artistic expression and not as "cinema goods". She travelled from Hamburg to Osnabrück for the first festival, the experimental film workshop, with her debut films "Markstraße 1a" and "Souterrain". In the following years she was at the festival with her films, videos and installations, which were often created in collective with other artists.
Her last major project, the video installation "The Wall - the Vertical Horizon", on which she had worked for several years, was premiered at EMAF 2016.
With Rotraut's death, media art loses one of its most groundbreaking, intelligent, and significant German artists.
