Animations & Screenings
MENTAL STATES
Mental confusion, fears and dead-end states form the undercurrent of this program. A young woman breaks free of her everyday life and embarks on an uncertain journey. A story about outsiders in a pub, a group therapy session with animals, and a boy trapped in societal constructions.
GENDER
This program portrays fairly diverse gender positions: A man and a woman meet each other – an unpleasant yet at the same time provocative situation between attraction and rejection. An experimental animation about gender and sexuality with vagina and penis as its main elements. An analysis of anorexia and a black comedy about a couple with differing attitudes towards gender norms.
WORLD MACHINES
Urbanization and globalization in the digital age is one example. Another one is a movie portraying various traditional patterns of the Ainu people, the native inhabitants of Northern Japan. Seoul City Machine is a city symphony of an urban space of tomorrow, written and narrated by an AI chatbot. Or maybe a city portrait of young people and their personal data.
STATEMENT
A group of soldiers set off on a peaceful exploration of the city through a war zone in the middle of Manhattan, a game of pretended emergencies, a society that buries its head in the sand. Filmmakers take a stand on various political issues such as censorship in Saudi Arabia or ask questions about staged images in the refugee crisis.
EXPERIMENTAL
This program presents new innovative trajectories within current cinematography at the intersection of art and science and brings together works with contemporary positions, from computer-generated procedural structures to trailblazing examples of frame-by-frame animated sequences.
EXPANDED ANIMATION
This compilation assembles works that explore new forms of animated visual worlds far from the usual norm and shows, among other things, an interactive shadow installation, animated MR rooms, an installation combining animated images with a dance performance, a multi-media façade for the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and experimental VR projects.
NARRATION
Narration in the classical sense acquires a new dimension in the digital realm and shows laconically in images, what wouldn’t be possible with words. A little girl dreaming of becoming an astronaut, randomly found film footage casting new light on a deceased father, what will happen when a group of people suddenly lose their self-control – just a few examples of this program.
DATA NARRATION
This program seeks to raise some sociological and ecological questions. Visualizations of air pollution, maritime data, artistic research into diabetes, and an analysis of group dynamics are among the topics. It also asks what happens when humans and AI mutate into a single consciousness.
MUSIC & VISUALS
A dance performance by a group of snails on the wing of an airplane, an indecisive woman sitting in front of her letter of resignation, a car ride through a dreamy desert landscape, aesthetically staged growth processes of organic forms, or dancing mochis. This program contains music videos and various experimental forms of picture-sound synthesis in different animation techniques.
