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"Entrance and Exit of Mascha B." follows a young woman through a digital transformation process. In the premises of a big architectural visualization company, delicate operations give rise to a photorealistic rendering that is to promote a yet-to-be-built office space. The virtual office room is furnished and inhabited by Mascha B. and digital colleagues. The final rendering process is accompanied by the aria from the 1881 fantastic opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which the hero hopelessly falls in love with the mechanical puppet Olympia.

Laura Engelhardt (born 1988 in Bremen) earned a degree in Architecture and Fine Arts (London, Stuttgart, Berlin) and is currently completing the postgraduate program in Film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her work examines built and imagined architectures and the fragile relations between the human body and its environment. Her films are shown internationally at festivals and exhibitions. Currently, she is writing and developing her first feature film.