Eight current positions bring different perspectives to a litmus test for our hurting society. In between overcoming personal traumas and a search for collective identities the
programme opens a kaleidoscope of artistic strategy for new way to connect. It‘s surprising, experimental and poetic. In cooperation with Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media.
In a dystopian world, a creature attends a feast hosted by a magic refrigerator. And so begins his downfall through a spiral of unbridled food consumption. Corrupted and transformed into a beast, he faces a macabre final course.
Our common pain, although experienced individually and uniquely, is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign. The cracks that form in the ground are the cracks on our skin. We are all connected.
After losing his fiancée and his good looks in a freak accident, Clyde must confront his inner demon.
Wet, steamy, and sticky. The filmmaker takes the viewer into her neon lit lavatory. In this humid, slushy environment, gender identities become fluid and seemingly solid architectures suddenly splinter. The camera lingers on a virtual nymph’s ecstatic expression. Moments of intimacy are shared. Crevices are explored. Surfaces are scrubbed.
A waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A customer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, but do either of them realise that they are themselves examples of this condition?
This work is an experimental documentary animation in the traditional Japanese technique of “Aburidashi”. It depicts how my perspective changes from an individual to a nation over a period of ten years.
The weird heritage of a distant past is haunting us as a crappy horror show under a familiar mythologized disguise. It encourages modern cosplayers to bring these horrors into our present.
This film is an abstract, pictorial interpretation of a piece by Hans Krása. He was a composer of German-Czech and Jewish origin. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt . The film was created as part of the ,Hamburg reads burned Books’ festival, that aimed to make partly forgotten authors, artists and works visible again.