Christoph Rohrscheidt

Award-winning cinematographer and digital creator

Christoph Rohrscheidt is an award-winning cinematographer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of cinema, artificial intelligence, and immersive media. With a strong background in classical cinematography, his practice explores how emerging technologies transform visual authorship, memory, and cinematic language.

His films have been presented internationally at major festivals, museums, and cultural institutions, spanning documentary, essayistic, and hybrid narrative forms. Alongside his film work, he collaborates with contemporary artists, researchers, and composers on cross-disciplinary projects that bridge cinema, installation, and digital art.

A central focus of his recent work lies in AI-driven filmmaking and advanced production workflows. Christoph develops and applies generative AI systems for documentary contexts, including AI-based visual reconstructions, archival interventions, and speculative re-imaginings of historical material. These methods are used not to replace documentary practice, but to critically extend it—questioning authenticity, authorship, and the politics of images.

His work further integrates real-time 3D world creation, virtual production, and VFX into hybrid AI pipelines, combining cinematic framing with procedural and spatial systems. He is also developing immersive VR experiences and experimental interactive formats that translate complex technological and historical topics into experiential narratives.

As a lecturer, Christoph teaches practice-based approaches to AI and film with a strong emphasis on open-source tools and open-weight models as a foundation for participation, transparency, and creative agency. His teaching focuses on node-based workflows and the integration of 3D, VFX, and real-time environments into AI-driven pipelines. Students are encouraged to understand technology not as automation, but as a creative and ethical material that can be shaped, questioned, and re-imagined through cinematic practice.