斯蒂芬·吉恩，Stephan Geene is an artist, "umsonst" ("for nothing") is his second feature-length film after "After Effect" (2008). Alongside theatrical works with "minimal club" and above all film works in various exhibition contexts (including with Judith Hopf), he works with the collective b_books (bookshop, publisher, events space, and film production), as a theorist and translator (of Jacques Derrida, Maurizio Lazzarato, Beatriz Preciado und Jacques Rancière). Book publication: Film Avantgarde Biopolitik (co-edited with Sabeth Buchmann and Helmut Draxler), Vienna 2009. He has directed two feature films, "After Effect" (2006), and "umsonst" (2014), which premiered at Forum Expanded in 2014.