Tina Bikić (1987) is a filmmaker and poetical digital storyteller based in Berlin. Working across art, research, and education, she develops Poetical Digital Storytelling (PDS) as an imaginative poetics practice that merges writing, narration, and film into a unified artistic form.
Situated between language and image, she expands her artistic vision beyond the text-based script into an embodied, solo-authored process. In this, she takes on the roles of writer, narrator, filmmaker and editor to create cohesive works. Spaces constitute a central research thread in her work. She approaches them as emotional landscapes that she films and revisits until the human-architectural affective relationship reveals itself. In her role of a poetical digital storyteller she sees herself as an architect who constructs cinematic spaces as carefully as one would build physical ones.
Drawn to the unseen, to what is hidden, overlooked and unforeseen, she layers all her ideas like memory itself. As memories are prone to shifting forms, she first documents them as they are, and later, through her optics of imaginative poetics, she reinterprets them into what they might yet become. For her, art becomes a way to negotiate with uncertainties.
Her films emerge from imagination and experimental narrative, transforming memory into film and opening affective spaces for audiences. Along these lines, she explores the themes of home, displacement and in-betweenness, approaching them as spatial and experiential layers of memory, rewritten and re-enacted in the search for belonging.
ARTIST STATEMENT
PDS builds upon the foundations of digital storytelling, structurally connected to essayistic film, while aesthetically it is influenced by poetic film. Interdisciplinary in its evolving nature, it grows out of the dialogue between cinematic language and the written word, yet it does not fully belong to any of those fields.
I understand it as a synthesis and expansion of these practices, a methodology that learns from them, builds upon them, and forges its own path. I approach these fields not as an external analyst but from within, drawing on a decade of practice as an artist, researcher, and educator.
Creating poetical digital stories where memory and belonging find cinematic form.
SELECTED WORKS
ABOUT
My academic background was shaped by studies in comparative literature and film, where I found myself creating between language and image. I recognised text as only a beginning, identifying as a full author, one who strives to realise their vision through all phases of creation.
Tina Bikic, Poetical digital storyteller Artist · Researcher · Educator
PDS Programme for Institutions
PDS Course for Artists
Through teaching, I extend PDS into dialogue, practice and collective imagination.
PDS AS EDUCATIONAL TOOL
