Work-in-Progress / Pre-Production Phase
Concept, Filming, Writing, Narration, Editing (in development): Tina Bikic
Final production planned for 2026–2029
This project is conceptually aligned with the doctoral research exposé
Imaginary Architectures of Belonging, Knowledge and Care (2025), currently under consideration as part of a PhD application in practice-based research.
ALLES ANDERS
ABOUT
About
The work, tentatively titled Alles Anders, continues my research into space, belonging, and imaginative poetics, exploring how memory and imagination create common spaces of care and emotional resonance. It builds upon both personal and shared memories that are collected and poetically reinterpreted through personal vision, aesthetic choices, and the filming of the affective correlation between human and architecture.
The inspiration behind the narrative requires revisiting emotional geographies of the past, by following personal reflections on spaces, voices, traces, visual imagery, and writing, all of which form the fabric of our memories. Through moments in which lived memory is re-staged and re-enacted, and the use of imagination as the ability to transcend time and place (Taylor, 2013), these films transform into imaginary architectures of belonging.
Methods
The project is conceived through poetical digital storytelling, a method that integrates writing, spatial exploration, re-enactment, and filmic narration. Developed in phases of writing, concept filming, narration, and editing, the film uses rhythm, atmosphere, and emotional tone as compositional principles.
The work consists of two layers, personal and collective, where the outcome of this dual process is not predetermined. Instead, it investigates how individual and collective memories resonate, intersect, or remain in tension. This indeterminacy is central to the method, as it enables the research to generate knowledge about memory, belonging, and authorship in ways that cannot be scripted in advance.
Personal layer
Spaces are approached as emotional landscapes, filmed and revisited until the human and architectural affective relationship reveals the symbiosis of their inner poetics. The personal layer draws on my own memories, which I rewrite, re-enact, and transform into films. These works test how memory can be architecturally restructured in cinematic space, turning traces of the past into imaginative blueprints for future belonging.
Reflective documentation runs alongside the practice. Notes, recordings, sketches, and field observations form an evolving archive of artistic choices and their transformation over time. This reflexive process does not simply support the works but constitutes an essential part of the research.
Collective layer
The collective layer builds on voluntary participation and complements the solo practice. Workshops with individuals from displaced areas invite the sharing and re-enactment of memories in response to the prompt “What is the memory you never want to lose?” These encounters generate material that can be poetically reinterpreted while also opening dialogic spaces where personal and collective narratives intersect. Participants form a temporary laboratory, actively shaping their own stories and re-enacting memories. My role shifts between facilitator and artist, maintaining openness to this exploratory process and collective imagination that thrive on collaboration.
Through this methodological combination of creation, reflection, and participation, the research examines how film can act as both artistic expression and investigative tool, probing how belonging and identity may be re-imagined through poetical digital storytelling.
2.5 Poetics of space: Constructing imaginary worlds on the screen
2.7 Spaces as narrative agents
3.4 Imaginative ways: On story formation
4.3 Collective imagination and Co-creative practices
On that day we felt irreplaceable.
-EXCERPT FROM PRETEXT FOR ALLES ANDERS
Alles Anders
Written and Narrated by Tina Bikic
Narrative text in development – to be added during production phase (2026-2029)
VISUAL NOTES
The following stills are presented as part of the pre-production phase for ALLES ANDERS. Rather than documenting specific locations, they serve as atmospheric references that support the development of the film’s artistic concept.
