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MAGMA is a method driven and improvisation based film project produced and directed by Julian Rabus. The shoot consists of long situations that last up to several hours and are filmed with up to four cameras. Actors are given space to behave without dramatic functions. Following intuitions opens a way to engage with certain psychological patterns and find narrative structures, which then manifest themselves in the editing and the viewer’s perception. In the film couples and peer groups try to find their way in everyday situations: they perform, reveal themselves, make themselves vulnerable, are insecure, fall in love or pretend to the others.

Julian Rabus works as a director and producer in the field of media art and narrative film since 2016. After he graduates from Academy of Fine Arts Munich in the class of Julian Rosefeldt he studied Film Directing at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and moved back to his hometown Berlin to finish his studies at the University of Arts in the Narrative Film class of Thomas Arslan.