Carl Diehl’s independent and collaboratively produced moving image artworks and performances have exhibited widely, at venues including: The International Symposium of Electronic Art, The Schneider Museum, Transmediale, Shapeshifters Cinema, and the Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Musick Festival. In 2025 he completed his documentary, Painless Magic, a culmination of eight years of research and development beginning with the life and times of his grand-uncle, the magician, vaudevillian, comedy emcee, Werner "Dorny" Dornfield, and broadening into a mosaic of riddles and revelations found in creative pursuits elswhere and elswhen
