What happens when the maker becomes the medium? When the gaze turns inward and the body begins to carry the narrative once held by the lens. For years, my work has lived behind the camera—framing stories, shaping light, and constructing visual narratives as a photographer and filmmaker. Through this process, I developed a deep sensitivity
The Fictional: Rewriting Reality (London, 2026) In 2024, I began The Fictional—a photographic inquiry into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Inspired in part by The Peripheral, the series explored how power persists through architecture, symbolism, and narrative, even as reality itself fractures. Now, in 2026, I return to the same terrain with Aeon
Monika K. Adler and Aeon Rose are utilising Midjourney AI to create storyboards for their upcoming psychological horror-thriller film, Sick Bacchus. For Sick Bacchus, Monika K. Adler and Aeon Rose leveraged Midjourney’s AI capabilities to generate individual storyboard frames. This process involved writing clear scripts and shot lists, breaking down scenes into individual shots, and
Involuntary Memory Involuntary Memory, directed by Monika K. Adler will be shown during three months of screenings, June 28 to September 28, 2025 as part of Art in Lima 2025, ‘MUTE – Museu dos Terceiros,’ Ponte de Lima, Portugal. See website for more information “Dedicated to the theme of History, Identity, and Tradition. The international
RetroQuito’25 with Patriarchal Sabbath (video art) 4 July – 30 September 2025 Cinemateca Nacional de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana cinema “Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco” Cologne Alphabet Art Centre Retrospective Quito/Ecuador featuring the screening programs which Wilfried Agricola de Cologne was curating for Muestra International de Video Arte Quito (MIVA) 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023,
SICK BACCHUS www.sickbacchus.com | www.instagram.com/sickbacchusmovie SYNOPSIS Violetta is one of London’s wealthy elite, rich and beautiful but pathologically dissatisfied with life. When her mind starts to destroy her body, she finds help in Dr. Gunter Berezovsky, a brilliant blood specialist and cultured psychopath who treats the city’s super-rich. As they become closer, a disturbing game
Portrait of Violetta Bacchus IG: @sickbacchusmovie WEB: www.sickbacchus.com Violetta, a woman from London’s wealthy elite, gets caught up in a game with her doctor; the true purpose of which will change her forever. #sickbacchusmovie (c)Monika K. Adler (c) Aeon Rose
The Fictional: London as Filmset by Monika K Adler, Private Photo Review, 19 April 2024, France, In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists…’ Aeon Rose Article at Private Photo Review
As part of the Festival’s Online programme view The Fictional by Monika K. Adler from 1 May.� In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists. Around them, despite a catastrophic collapse of society, the structures of embedded establishment persist;
My video work Patriarchal Sabbath will be shown in the “Opposite Flow” video art screening curated by Tahir Ün at IFOD (Izmir Photo & Cinema Assc.)
