Susanne Layla Petersen
Interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker
Susanne Layla Petersen
Interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker
Susanne Layla Petersen is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her works include video, digital art, AI art, collaborative installations, NFTs, web projects, photography, texts and sound.
Petersen's works have been screened and exhibited at Sleepy Eyes Film Festival (NL), On Art Film Festival (PL), Edmonton Underground Film Festival (CA), FilmArte Festival (DE), CICA Museum (KR), Physics on Film (UK), Simultan Festival (RO), XOR Space, VASTLAB Experimental (US), LA Art Show (US), ICME AIART Gallery (FR), GOSIM Hangzhou (CN), DELETE TV (UK/AT), Venice Open Art (IT), ArtX Gallery (US), Intervals Festival (RU), The Wrong Biennale, London's Crypt Gallery St Pancras (UK) and elsewhere.
Filmography
  • Producer (21 Credits)
    Crossing the Rubicon2026
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Fuga2026
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Television, Web / New Media, Other
    Rooms in the Maze2026
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Reality Red and Black2025
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Shadows2025
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Vision2025
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Business II2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Business III2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Chaos2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    The Emperor's New Clothes2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Untitled2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Zone2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Business I2023
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Mirage2023
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Echoes2022
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    TBD2022
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    outside2021
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    untitled2021
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    INSOMNIA2020
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    TIME2020
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    The End of the World as we know it2019
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Director (21 Credits)
    Crossing the Rubicon2026
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Fuga2026
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Television, Web / New Media, Other
    Rooms in the Maze2026
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Reality Red and Black2025
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Shadows2025
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Vision2025
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Business II2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Business III2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Chaos2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    The Emperor's New Clothes2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Untitled2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Zone2024
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Business I2023
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Mirage2023
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    Echoes2022
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    TBD2022
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    outside2021
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    untitled2021
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    INSOMNIA2020
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    TIME2020
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
    The End of the World as we know it2019
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
151 Awards & Selections
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business III
Sleepy Eyes Film Festival, Westeinde street
The Hague
2026
Official Selection
Chaos
(upcoming) Cauldron International Film and Video Festival, Salt Lake City Public Library
Salt Lake City, Utah
2026
Official Selection
Shadows
(upcoming) Matter, Light, Frame, 2026 British Science Festival, John Hansard Gallery
Southampton
2026
Official Selection
Shadows
Physics on Film 2026, Institute of Physics
London
2026
Official Selection
Shadows
Experimental Film and Video 2026, CICA Museum
Gimpo
2026
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business II
Sleepy Eyes Film Festival, Westeinde street
The Hague
2026
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business I
Sleepy Eyes Film Festival, Westeinde street
The Hague
2026
Official Selection
Vision
(upcoming) NeoCinema AI Film Festival, Uzhhorod Castle
Uzhhorod
2026
Official Selection
Vision
DELETE TV, broadcast and streaming on okto.tv
London
2026
Official Selection
Chaos
WORLDTHREADING Festival, The Poetic Phonotheque, Kulturhuset Indre By and online
Copenhagen
2026
Official Selection
Vision
Experimental Film and Video 2026, CICA Museum
Gimpo
2026
Bronze Award
Zone
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Official Selection
Zone
Edmonton Underground Film Festival EUFF.02, Freemasons’ Hall
Edmonton, Alberta
2025
Bronze Award
Vision
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Official Selection
Vision
Intelligence Reimagined: The Convergence of Art and AI, ICME AIART Gallery 2025, La Cité des Congrès de Nantes
Nantes
2025
Official Selection
Chaos
VIDEOSOUNDARCHIVE S13
online
2025
Official Selection
Vision
On Art Film Festival, Scena nad Rusałką
Poznań
2025
Official Selection
Untitled
VASTLAB Experimental - VLX 6, KAW Theatre
Los Angeles
2025
Official Selection
Zone
Art Is, CICA Museum
Gimpo
2025
Official Selection
Zone
VASTLAB Experimental - VLX6, KAW Theatre
Los Angeles
2025
Official Selection
Zone
Exi, Crypt Gallery St Pancras
London
2025
Official Selection
Mirage
Art Is, CICA Museum
Gimpo
2025
Bronze Award (Business I-III)
Business III
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Official Selection
Chaos
Art Is, CICA Museum
Gimpo
2025
Official Selection
Chaos
Exi, Crypt Gallery St Pancras
London
2025
Bronze Award
Business I
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Silver Award
Shadows
The Light from the Other Shore - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Art for the Planet, Venice Open Art, Art Night Venezia
Venice
2025
Official Selection
Chaos
VASTLAB Experimental - VLX 6, KAW Theatre
Los Angeles
2025
Bronze Award (Business I-III)
Business II
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Bronze Award
Chaos
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Official Selection
Vision
On Art Film Festival online (1 month)
2025
Official Selection
Vision
On Art Film Festival, Kino Luna
Warsaw
2025
Official Selection (NFT)
Vision
Blockchain Futurist Conference, BitBasel NFT Art Gallery
Hollywood, Florida
2025
Official Selection
Vision
Infinite Self Pavilion, The Wrong Biennale
online
2025
Official Selection
Vision
Phantom Gaze, XOR Space at The Wrong Biennale, VR Exhibition
online
2025
Official Selection
Vision
On Art Film Festival, Rynek miejski w Rzeszowie
Rzeszów
2025
Official Selection
Vision
AI for Humanity Spotlight, GOSIM Hangzhou 2025
Hangzhou
2025
Bronze Award
Mirage
Chaos Code - 2025 New York International Art Competition, Whitelock Art Center
New York
2025
Official Selection
Chaos
180' Berlin Filmfest 7th edition, Wein Salon
Berlin
2024
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business III
Digital Impressions - Silicon Valley International Art Exhibit, ArtX Gallery
Fremont, California
2024
Official Selection
Chaos
Southeast Asia International Film Festival, Holiday Inn Movie Theater
Pattaya
2024
Official selection
Chaos
Digital Impressions - Silicon Valley International Art Exhibit, ArtX Gallery
Fremont, California
2024
Official Selection
Zone
CINEMATOGRAPHIE, Fox Yard Studio
Stowmarket, Suffolk
2024
Official Selection
Zone
FilmArte Festival, Autumn 2024 edition, Wein Salon
Berlin
2024
Official Selection
Zone
The Hollow Hour, art'otel Hoxton
London
2024
Official Selection
Chaos
CINEMATOGRAPHIE, Fox Yard Studio
Stowmarket, Suffolk
2024
Official Selection
Chaos
FilmArte Festival, Spring 2024 edition, Wein Salon
Berlin
2024
Official Selection
Echoes
CINEMATOGRAPHIE, Fox Yard Studio
Stowmarket, Suffolk
2024
Official Selection
Echoes
DELETE TV, broadcast and streaming on okto.tv
London
2024
Official Selection
Echoes
VASTLAB Experimental VLX5, Chicago Filmmakers' Firehouse Cinema
Chicago
2024
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Reflections on Our Warming Planet/Part Three, Boone Family Gallery and V Gallery at Pasadena City College
Pasadena, CA
2024
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business II
Digital Impressions - Silicon Valley International Art Exhibit, ArtX Gallery
Fremont, California
2024
Official Selection
Business I
Digital Impressions - Silicon Valley International Art Exhibit, ArtX Gallery
Fremont, California
2024
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Nature's Endurance, The Everybody Gallery
Halifax
2023
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
#ArtSpeaksOut, IkonoTV and others during COP28
online
2023
Official Selection
TIME
6th Bad Video Art Festival, Auditoria
Tblisi
2023
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Reflections on a Warming Planet, LA Artcore
Los Angeles
2023
Official Selection
TIME
6th Bad Video Art Festival, The Dissident Club
Paris
2023
Official Selection
Business I
TECHNOLOGIA, Gallery Augusta, Suomenlilla
Helsinki
2023
Official Selection
Business I
VASTLAB Experimental VLX5, Theatre 68
Los Angeles
2023
Official Selection
Business I
Algorithmic Random Selected AV Exhibition, Internationales Digitalkunst Festival
Stuttgart
2023
Official Selection
Mirage
Athens International Digital Film Festival, Studio New Star Art Cinema
Athens
2023
Official Selection
Mirage
VASTLAB Experimental VLX5, Theatre 68
Los Angeles
2023
Official Selection
Mirage
Open Video XVI, Kunstrum Fyn
Tårup
2023
Official Selection
Echoes
FilmArte Festival, Autumn 2023 edition, Wein Salon
Berlin
2023
Official Selection
INSOMNIA
International Micro Short Film Festival
Boston, online
2023
Official Selection
untitled
Masked, CICA Museum
Gimpo
2023
Official Selection
untitled
The Wrong Biennale: Self As A Service [SAAS], XOR Space
VR experience and screening program, online
2023
Official Selection
untitled
Kino Club goes Halloween, Lapinlahden Lähde’s Blue Room
Helsinki
2023
Official Selection
untitled
#Post RE:SET@New Future
Vienna, On Screen Streaming Festival 2022, online
2022
Finalist
Echoes
#Post RE:SET@New Future
Vienna, On Screen Streaming Festival 2022, online
2022
Official Selection
Echoes
11th Athens International Digital Film Festival, Studio New Star Art Cinema
Athens
2022
Official Selection
untitled
Digital Art, ART 321
Casper, Wyoming
2022
Official Selection
TBD
Peace Letters to Ukraine, New Museum of Networked Art
online
2022
Official Selection
outside
Perspectives 2022
CICA Museum, Gimpo
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Memorial To The Future (collab, Torrance Art Museum), LA Art Show 2022
Los Angeles
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Carbon Borders Voices
online
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Climate Change Memorial 2022
Alphabet Art Centre Cinema T 22, online
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Declare/Decay, XOR Space
VR
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Repeating Errors – video art from Denmark & elsewhere, Peace Letters Marathon
The New Museum of Networked Art, online
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Digital Art, ART 321
Casper, Wyoming
2022
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Reflections on Our Warming Planet, Lois Lambert Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
2022
Finalist
INSOMNIA
New York Tri-State International Film Festival
New York, online
2021
Official Selection
INSOMNIA
The Wrong Biennale nº5: ESSENCE/ABSENCE
online
2021
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Bomba Video Club
Moscow
2021
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Utopaphobia, Green Exchange
Chicago, IL
2021
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
NFTAPPING (collab, Pitch), Intervals Festival 2021, Mayak Building
Nizhny Novgorod
2021
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
FEX. platform and exhibitions
2021
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Streetlight 2021
Chicago, IL
2021
Official Selection
outside
The Wrong Biennale nº5: ESSENCE/ABSENCE
online
2021
Official Selection
outside
VIDEOFENSTER 2021
Cologne
2021
Finalist
INSOMNIA
Roma Short Film Festival
Rome, online
2021
Finalist
untitled
Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF
Studio New Star Art Cinema, Athens
2021
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
In My House
Southampton
2020
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Environmental Crisis, Gerald Moore Gallery
London
2020
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
FORCES, The Old Biscuit Factory
London
2020
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
SPAMM - 4BR3 4 tU4 M3NT3, D35con3c+4, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea
Lisbon and online
2020
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
CICA Experimental Film and Video 2020
Gimpo
2020
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Word Revolt VR
Atlantic Beach, FL
2020
Official Selection
INSOMNIA
SPAMM (SuPerArtModernMuseum) Covid 1984
online
2020
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
Simultan Festival XIV
Timisoara
2019
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
The Wrong biennale: BIG or BIGGGEST
Copenhagen
2019
Official Selection
The End of the World as we know it
The Wrong biennale: EPICENTRE
Valencia
2019
Highly Commended
The End of the World as we know it
Red Line Art Works Gallery
online
2019
Special Mention
INSOMNIA
Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival
Tokyo
Official Selection
INSOMNIA
XPRMNTL anti-festival
guerrilla screenings 2021, London
Finalist
INSOMNIA
Korea International Short Film Festival
Seoul
Official Selection
outside
XPRMNTL anti-festival
guerrilla screenings 2021
Award Winner, Best Art Film
Chaos
Couch Film Festival, Summer 2025 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Finalist
Untitled
Busan New Wave Short Film Festival 2024
Busan
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business III
(upcoming, TBA) Live Soundtrack 2026
Belgrade
Nominee, Best Experimental International
Zone
Altff Alternative Film Festival, Fall 2024 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Official Selection
Zone
International Avant-Garde Film Awards 2024
New York City
Honorable Mention
Zone
Experimental Forum 2025
Los Angeles
Honorable Mention
Zone
LA Underground Film Forum 2025
Los Angeles
Nominee, Best Experimental International
Zone
Couch Film Festival, Summer 2025 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Nominee, Best Micro Short
Zone
Funartt Film Awards 2025
Portland, Oregon
Nominee, Best Experimental International
Vision
Altff Alternative Film Festival, Spring 2025 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Award Winner, Best Experimental International
Vision
Couch Film Festival, Summer 2025 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Award Winner, AI in Cinema Award
Vision
International Avant-Garde Film Awards 2025
New York City
Official Selection
Vision
Cinema in Schools, MSIFF in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
100 schools in Ukraine
Official Selection
Vision
Cine Paris Film Festival
Paris
Award Winner, AI in Cinema Buzz
Vision
Film Buzz Festival London 2026
London
Official Selection
Vision
Africa AI Creativity Week, GITEX Africa
Marrakech
Award of Recognition: Experimental
Vision
IndieFEST Film Awards April 2026
La Jolla, California
Nominee, Best Experimental International
Shadows
Alternative Film Festival, Summer 2025 edition
Toronto, Ontario
Winner, Best Artistic Film
Reality Red and Black
Altff Alternative Film Festival, Winter 2025 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Official Selection
Rooms in the Maze
(upcoming) Post-Cinema Film Festival
Siracusa, Sicily
Official Selection
Crossing the Rubicon
(upcoming) Post-Cinema Film Festival
Siracusa, Sicily
Finalist
outside
Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival
Tokyo
Finalist
outside
KOREA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Seoul
Honorable Mention
outside
LA Underground Film Forum 2023
Los Angeles
Official Selection
outside
Esto Es Para Esto - EIC 3 Encuentro Internacional de Cine 2023
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
Finalist
outside
Busan New Wave Short Film Festival
Busan
Award Nominee, Best One-Minute Film
outside
Alternative Film festival, Fall 2023 Edition
Toronto, Ontario
Official Selection
untitled
XPRMNTL anti-festival
guerrilla screenings 2021, London
Honorable Mention
Echoes
Experimental Forum 2023
Los Angeles
Honorable Mention
Echoes
LA Underground Film Forum 2023
Los Angeles
Award Nominee, Best Experimental International
Echoes
Alternative Film Festival, Fall 2023 Edition
Toronto
Honorable Mention
Mirage
Experimental Forum 2024
Los Angeles
Honorable Mention
Mirage
LA Underground Film Forum 2024
Los Angeles
Award Nominee, Best Artistic Film
Mirage
AlltFF Alternative Film Festival, Summer Edition 2024
Toronto, Ontario
Honorable Mention
Business I
Experimental Forum 2024
Los Angeles
Honorable Mention
Business I
LA Underground Film Forum 2024
Los Angeles
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business I
(upcoming, TBA) Live Soundtrack 2026
Belgrade
Official Selection (Business I-III)
Business II
(upcoming, TBA) Live Soundtrack 2026
Belgrade
Award Winner, Best Experimental International
Chaos
Altff Alternative Film Festival, Summer Edition 2024
Toronto, Ontario
Honorable Mention
Chaos
Chroma Art Film Festival
Miami, Florida
Honorable Mention
Chaos
Experimental Forum 2025
Los Angeles
Honorable Mention
Chaos
LA Underground Film Forum 2025
Los Angeles
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Personal Details
Gender
Female
Quotes
CURRENT FAVOURITE QUOTES:
“When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not going to translate. It’s going to lose.” – David Lynch
“The film is the talking, the film is the thing, so you go see the film” – David Lynch
QUOTES ABOUT MY WORK:
“This is not traditional cinema – it’s a vision that opens space for personal reflection and discovery. No explanations, no instructions – just raw, digital poetry of image and sound.” – On Art Film Festival about “Vision”
“She consistently uses the work itself as a core medium of communication, advocating for audiences to directly experience the work and spark independent reflection and interpretation. Consequently, she maintains an openness by keeping descriptions minimal and avoiding interviews.” – Whitelock Art Center
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