Ella Raidel is a filmmaker, visual artist, and interdisciplinary researcher. Her work engages with urban space and the politics of images, investigating how visual culture reflects and shapes the ways we live together.
She is an Assistant Professor at NTU Nanyang Technological University Singapore’s School of Art, Design, and Media. Her artistic practice spans documentary and experimental film, immersive storytelling, VR/AR technologies, and 360-degree filmmaking, offering new ways of seeing and sensing. By integrating art, technology, and social research, she creates a discursive space for critical engagement within the expanding field of audiovisual media. In 2022, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture awarded her the Outstanding Artist Award for Fiction and Documentary Film.
Her work has been published in the book: Of Haunted Spaces – The Films of Ella Raidel Cinema, Heterotopias, and China’s Hyperurbanization, Edited by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore 2023, NUS Press
Films are distributed by Sixpackfilm Vienna.
PRESS
Geistergegenwart, RAY Filmmagazin 12/23+01/24, pp. 68-73, Text and Interview – Andreas Ungerböck, LINK, A comprehensive and detailed book review spanning six pages in Ray Filmmagazin, Austria.
Camera Austria 166/ 2024, pp.86-87 by Maren Richter
Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, Association for Contemporary Art and Culture, Interview with Ella Raidel, Interview: Daniel Lichterwaldt, June 2023, Link
Ella Raidel, Video portrait, Outstanding Artist Award, Documentary and Fiction Film, Federal Ministry, Republic of Austria, Arts, Culture and Civil Service and Sports, Link