is an artist, filmmaker and author. He is known for his films Constant and A Demonstration.
Wagner was born in 1985 in Berlin.
Wagner graduated with a bachelor of arts from Bard College in 2008, and was a postgraduate fellow at Jan van Eyck Academie in 2015-2016.
Wagner's first short film Eye Farm, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017.
In 2020, Wagner co-directed A Demonstration, together with his long-term collaborator Sasha Litvintseva, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
In 2022, he collaborated again with Sasha Litvintseva on Constant, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at CPH:DOX and the Open City Documentary Festival. The film is a social and political history of measurement standardization, and incorporates a range of cinematographic techniques, including photogrammetry and 360-degree cameras.
In November 2023, the third film in their trilogy My Want of You Partakes of Me was screened at Tate Modern.