Marcel Schwierin is a curator and filmmaker. He is co-founder of the Werkleitz Biennale, the experimental film database cinovid, and the Arab Shorts festival in Cairo. His films include the experimental film The Images (1994), and the documentary Eternal Beauty (2003).
He has regularly curated for the Werkleitz Biennials, Goethe Institut, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and others. From 2010-2015 he was curator of film and video of transmediale. Since 2015 he has been the director (together with Edit Molnár) of the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg.