Background
Titus Leber was born in Zell am See, Austria.
Titus Leber was born in Zell am See, Austria.
He studied at the Lycée Français de Vienne, where he received a baccalaureate degree in 1969 and a Doctor of Philosophy in mass media communication in 1975. After a year at the American Film Institute, from where he graduated with a director"s diploma in 1979, Leber returned to Austria to write and direct.
His doctoral thesis, "The Multilayer Method," explored the history and cultural use of superimposed images. During his graduate studies, Leber worked on documentaries and became head of the film department of the Institut für Neurovegetative Endoskopie in Düsseldorf. His first feature film, Anima-Symphonie Fantastique (1981) was shown in out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
From 1983 to 1984 Leber took a research fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
His project, the “Image Reactor”, explored interactive image permutation. He returned to Europe fascinated by the possibility of making the audience participate in what happened on the screen, and began work on interactive multimedia.
In 1987 he produced “Vienna Interactive”, an interactive touchscreen laserdisc, followed by “Mozart Interactive” in 1991. Between 1992 and 1997 Leber worked with the Louvre Museum, International Business Machines Corporation, the Pasteur Institute and the Centro Nacional de Cultura, Lisboa on interactive multimedia projects.
He also served on the advisory board of Corbis and the executive board of Louisiana Fémis, the French cinema school.
Publication of two books: " Lalitavistara" and "Decoding Borobudur for Cyberspace". BorobudurPaths to Enlightenment- 65GB fully interactive exploration of Borobudur Temple in Indonesia
Mozart Interactive
Vienna Interactive: Mercuriale Award for best Cultural Heritage Civil Defense ROM/ Besançon:
Le monde de Pasteur:Award IAMS for best Scientific Civil Defense ROM 1995
The Great Louvre in HDTV/3D coproduced with UNESO and Beta System, Japan
Eight Historical cities of Portugal, for the Centro Nacional de Cultura, Lisboa. Das Wiener Theatermuseum.
Endoskopie Interaktiv.
He collaborated with the founder of the Institute, Doctor Raimund Wittmoser, on the endoscopy documentaries Hyperhidrosis and Neue Coelome. Leber"s first fictional 16mm short film, 1976"s Kindertotenlieder ("Songs of dead children”) won awards at the Valladolid International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, and was Austria"s nominee for best short film for the Academy Awards. In 1978, he wrote and directed SchubertFremd bin ich eingezogen (“SchubertA Stranger I came”), for which he won the Austrian National Award for filmmaking.
