Her six minute film, This Is How You Disappear, will feature in the best student artworks from last year's NSW Higher School Certificate in visual arts.

``I first thought about making a music video about what happens after you die,'' the Kellyville teenager said.

``Most people don't really get it, but I wanted to tell a tragic story that was dramatic and would touch people.''

The film was edited for display on a split screen and depicts the stories of a girl who doesn't realise she has died, two students playing with a wheel of torture, as well as scenes of Anke as a child in Belgium.

``It shows we are all influenced by higher powers,'' she said.

Anke, 19, started on the work in year 11 after her friends agreed to act in the film.

She said it was rewarding to have the work chosen for exhibition.

In another achievement Anke completed an intensive photography course at the National Art School in 2008 and was named a finalist in the Moran Prize photographic competition.

In 2009 she hopes to establish a video club at the University of Western Sydney, where she has started a forensic science degree.

Anke's props the wheel of torture and a Bible with a digital photo frame inside as well as photos from her film will be displayed in the ``Art of Darkness'' exhibition at Newington Armoury Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park from March 3 to April 26.

Helen Gregory