Süddeutsche Zeitung on Mind the Brain!

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Installation

On the tracks of the brain

Director Oliver Czeslik makes his incredible experiences after a stroke tangible through virtual reality.

What our brain does or can do, some of it has been researched. But much is still a mystery. This was also the experience of director, actor and author Oliver Czeslik, who had a stroke in 2016. As a result, he could no longer understand narrative units and had paralysis in his hands and feet. Instead, he could hear conversations from the next room and even see through walls. The reason for this was nerve cells that had become newly linked. In order to make these incredible experiences tangible for others, Czeslik, together with his wife Kathrin Brunner and an interdisciplinary team, created the virtual reality installation "Mind The Brain," which, after several postponements, will now premiere on July 2 at Munich's Blitz Club. The project, which won the prestigious Stereopsia Lumière Award in Belgium last December and works, among other things, with live projected brain waves, was directed by Berlin-based arthouse director and cinematographer Fred Kelemen ("Frost," "Abendland"). Tickets for "Experience," showing at the Blitz through July 5, can be obtained at www.myndstorm.me.