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Animation Perspectives 2022
Filmstill About AIVA – Director’s Short Cut
About AIVA – Director’s Short Cut
Veneta Androva
Who is the clever mind behind “AIVA”, the absolutely incredible AI novelty everyone talks about? An avatar with a female voice introduces themselves as the inventor.
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About AIVA – Director’s Short Cut

About AIVA – Director’s Short Cut
Veneta Androva
Animation Perspectives 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2020
3 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

Who is the clever mind behind “AIVA”, the absolutely incredible AI novelty that everyone talks about and wants to have? An avatar with a female voice, unfolding in two dimensions like a pattern, praises their successful multi-million-pound project. Answers are not provided, just another ghastly feedback loop of artificiality.

André Eckardt

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Director
Veneta Androva
Editor
Veneta Androva
Producer
Veneta Androva
Animation
Veneta Androva
Animation Perspectives 2022
Filmstill AIVA
AIVA
Veneta Androva
AIVA is an artist animated by algorithms. But first and foremost, she is the chillingly limited male tech vision of what more diversity in the arts could look like.
Filmstill AIVA

AIVA

AIVA
Veneta Androva
Animation Perspectives 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2020
13 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

AIVA is an artist animated by algorithms. But first and foremost, she is the tech vision of male IT commitment to more diversity in the arts. Which is why AIVA prefers the “portrait” format in her paintings. An “art documentary” lets us share her creative process and fulfils every stereotype at hand. With unerring wit, Veneta Androva mirrors actual conditions in her computer animated science fiction.

André Eckardt

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Director
Veneta Androva
Script
Veneta Androva
Editor
Veneta Androva
Producer
Veneta Androva
Score
Nadia D’Alò, Benedikt Frey
Animation
Veneta Androva
Narrator
Vivienne Pettitt
Animation Perspectives 2023
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Any Instant Whatever
Michelle Brand
A person at a table. Time makes its usual rounds – until there is a hiccup. Normality slips. The table becomes a wild combination of constantly changing perspectives.
Filmstill Any Instant Whatever

Any Instant Whatever

Any Instant Whatever
Michelle Brand
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
UK
2019
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A person sits at a plain table. Time makes its usual rounds – until there is a hiccup. Moments fall into each other, angles of vision diverge, normality slips. The table becomes an unmanageable combination of constantly changing perspectives. The troubled person is transformed into a distorted temporal body. The world atomises itself in basic shapes and colours.

André Eckardt

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Director
Michelle Brand
Producer
RCA London
Sound Design
Michelle Brand
Animation
Michelle Brand
Animation Perspectives 2021
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Ceuta’s Gate
Randa Maroufi
A performative reconstruction sketches and condenses daily life at the border between the Spanish exclave of Ceuta and Morocco, which is crossed illegally by all kinds of goods.
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Ceuta’s Gate

Bab Septa
Randa Maroufi
Animation Perspectives 2021
Documentary Film
France,
Morocco
2019
19 minutes
Spanish,
Arabic
Subtitles: 
English

Everything seems neat at first in Randa Maroufi’s performative reconstruction. Cars form orderly queues; market women tie up their baggage. On the monotonous grey background, the scenes appear schematic, like a blueprint where suddenly everything becomes graphically condensed. Everyday life at the border between the Spanish exclave of Ceuta and Morocco, which is crossed illegally by all kinds of goods.

André Eckardt

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Director
Randa Maroufi
Script
Randa Maroufi
Cinematographer
Luca Coassin
Editor
Randa Maroufi, Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis
Producer
Saïd Hamich
Sound
Mohamed Bounouar, Léonore Mercier
Animation Perspectives 2021
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Collapsing Mies
Claudia Larcher
Mies van der Rohe, the architect of transparency: Here his building elements rotate, multiply and are superimposed on each other until the dizzying compression supplants the enclosed space.
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Collapsing Mies

Collapsing Mies
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
Experimental Film
Austria
2019
7 minutes
without dialogue

Mies van der Rohe revolutionized architecture with his radically reduced formal language of clear lines and transparency. Claudia Larcher pieces together his building elements – frames, columns, banisters –, makes them rotate around their vertical axes, multiplies and superimposes them until a dizzying compression is achieved which supplants the enclosed space and thus transparency.

André Eckardt

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Director
Claudia Larcher
Script
Claudia Larcher
Producer
Claudia Larcher
Score
Alexander J. Eberhard
World Sales
sixpackfilm
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Collection AR Face Filters
Aaron Jablonski
Confusing swarm of echoes or spiky punk – immaterial masks, hovering between fashion and art, conceal as much as they reveal about their wearers.
2020
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Collection AR Face Filters

Collection AR Face Filters
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2020
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Painting, virtual sculptures, technophile hybrids of reality and illusion – Aaron Jablonski has been creating mobile face filters for social media channels since 2018. Sometimes they form a confusing swarm of echoes around a head, sometimes they come as spiky digital punk. His immaterial masks, hovering between fashion and art, conceal as much as they reveal about their wearers.

André Eckardt

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Director
Aaron Jablonski
Animation
Aaron Jablonski
AR Developer
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2023
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Due to Legal Reasons This Film Is Called Breaking Bert
Anne Isensee
Most accidents happen at home, sometimes in the form of a text by Brecht that unexpectedly appeals to one’s own political responsibility. Something, anything must be done!
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Due to Legal Reasons This Film Is Called Breaking Bert

Dieser Film heißt aus rechtlichen Gründen Breaking Bert
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
Germany
2020
5 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

Most accidents happen at home. That is where a jazz-loving drawn figure is unexpectedly re-confronted with a text by Bertolt Brecht that brings an appeal to their own political responsibility. Something at least must be done to avoid ending up on the wrong side. A trenchant, tidy contemplation that shows some understanding for human indecision.

André Eckardt

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Director
Anne Isensee
Script
Anne Isensee
Editor
Anne Isensee
Producer
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Lorena Junghans
Sound
Jonathan Hamann, Irma Heinig
Score
Franziska May
Animation
Anne Isensee
Narrator
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2021
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Dramatis Personae
Claudia Larcher
A real-life tropical holiday resort as a stage where staff and guests play their roles in tableaux vivants, hiding their faces behind carved emoji masks.
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Dramatis Personae

Dramatis Personae
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
Experimental Film
Austria
2019
4 minutes
without dialogue

A real-life tropical holiday resort becomes a stage where staff and guests play their roles in tableaux vivants. They hide their faces behind carved emoji masks that serve – in the digital world – to express emotions and rate things. The result is a superficial and at the same time subversive semi-reality of linguistic, social and cultural levels of (mis-)communication.

André Eckardt

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Director
Claudia Larcher
Producer
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
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Habitat, EP7 Paris
Claudia Larcher
An animated architectural collage on the façade of the Paris cultural restaurant EP7 invites us to an irritating game of deception of lines of sight, angles and geometries in the life of the city.
2019
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Habitat, EP7 Paris

Habitat, EP7 Paris
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
Documentary Film
Austria
2019
1 minute
without dialogue

The façade of the Paris cultural restaurant EP7 forms the presentation surface for an animated architectural collage. Staggered exterior views of buildings rotate. The game of deception of lines of sight, angles and geometries has an irritating effect. The spatial depths lure the eye into the supposed interior of the body behind the skin of the façade, which is at the same time the mirror of an urban architecture of restlessness.

André Eckardt

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Director
Claudia Larcher
Script
Claudia Larcher
Cinematographer
Claudia Larcher
Editor
Claudia Larcher
Producer
Claudia Larcher
Sound
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
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Heim
Claudia Larcher
A home in the middle of the day, only the electrical appliances are whirring. The camera gaze glides through rooms unfolded by the editing and captures uncanny, bizarre moments.
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Heim

Heim
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
Experimental Film
Austria
2009
12 minutes
without dialogue

A home in the middle of the day, only the electrical appliances are whirring. The camera gaze glides through the rooms and floors which are unfolded and seamlessly joined by the editing. Small oddities proliferate in the bourgeois habitat: an unanswered doorbell, an open freezer emitting light. Normality, perhaps unintentionally, whispers something uncanny.

André Eckardt

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Director
Claudia Larcher
Cinematographer
Claudia Larcher
Producer
Claudia Larcher
Sound
Claudia Larcher
Animation
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2023
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I Want
Anne Isensee
She shouts and whispers her wishes and dances compromise out of the world, just like that, because she wants it. An enthusiastic and colourful wake-up call for self-determination and lust for life.
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I Want

Ich will
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
Germany
2019
2 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

A woman’s voice shouts and whispers her wishes, depending on how she feels and what she wants. Her cartoonishly reduced and exaggerated body dances compromise out of the world. Straight, zig-zag or in sweeping curves, on we go through the hustle and bustle of life. Anne Isensee formulates an enthusiastic wake-up call for self-determination and lust for life.

André Eckardt

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Director
Anne Isensee
Producer
Anne Isensee
Sound Design
Artur Sommerfeld
Score
Sarah Farina
Animation
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Into Into
Aaron Jablonski
During a ramble through the forest we see video colour fringes break through the canopy. Hallucinogenic data errors drag like scrapers across a discarded layer of paint.
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Into Into

Into Into
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2016
2 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

During a ramble through the forest we see video colour fringes break through the shadows of the canopy. Rolls of thunder and birdsong spread as a deep red pixel moss carpet. Ambient sounds creep up from the distance to filter the visual world. Hallucinogenic data errors drag like scrapers across a discarded layer of paint. The forest becomes a cathedral for the eyes and ears.

André Eckardt

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Director
Aaron Jablonski
Animation
Aaron Jablonski
VFX Artist
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2023
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Intro
Anne Isensee
Can an animation film be translated into words without reducing its visual complexity? A humorous and trenchant investigation into the subject of audio-descriptions.
Filmstill Intro

Intro

Intro
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
Germany
2022
8 minutes
English,
English captions
Subtitles: 
English

A city crossing: Many things happen, one after the other, at the same time and sometimes inexplicable. Even in animated images reduced almost to symbols there is a lot to discover at this place. A speaker describes what is happening in words for people with visual impairments, but she increasingly questions the meaningfulness and translatability of what she sees.

André Eckardt

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Director
Anne Isensee
Script
Anne Isensee
Editor
Anne Isensee
Producer
Anne Isensee
Sound
Irma Heinig
Sound Design
Irma Heinig
Score
Franziska May
Animation
Anne Isensee, Sonja Rohleder
World Sales
Cord Dueppe
Funder
FFA Filmförderungsanstalt
Narrator
Orit Nahmias
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Kinect Particles
Aaron Jablonski
The fascinating virtual sculptures of a deep scan are moulded and pulverized to electronic beats: waves of millions of luminescent coloured microbodies.
2020
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Kinect Particles

Kinect Particles
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2020
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An infrared dot pattern scans body shapes to supply system information for fascinating volume images. The space casts are virtual sculptures, mouldable, with unstable aggregate states. DJ Dixon’s “Transmoderna” performance is pulverized to the beats of Mëhill’s track “Through Withdrawals”: waves of millions of luminescent coloured microbodies against a black infinity.

André Eckardt

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Director
Aaron Jablonski
Cinematographer
Tim Scherret
Producer
Steffen Berkhahn
Sound
Bjorn Debergh
Artistic Design
Tim Novikov
Creative Technologist
Aaron Jablonski, Tim Novikov
Coding
Aaron Jablonski, Giusy Amoroso
Animation Perspectives 2023
Filmstill Megatrick
Megatrick
Anne Isensee
See through life in only two minutes and one line: A minimalist animation pleads with wit and depth for kinks and deviations in the course of things.
Filmstill Megatrick

Megatrick

Megatrick
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
Germany
2017
2 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

Sometimes it really takes only two minutes to see through life. In her minimalist animated film, Anne Isensee comes quickly and straightforwardly to the point. What the direct line sketches out as a concept of life looks alluring, too. It is a good thing that there are one or two kinks after all. Nonchalant, witty and profound – and awarded the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig in 2017.

André Eckardt

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Director
Anne Isensee
Script
Anne Isensee
Producer
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Sound
Chandra Fleig
Sound Design
Dascha Dauenhauer, Felix Rösch, Robert Pilgram, Marcus Sander, Carl Ludwig Wetzig
Score
Dascha Dauenhauer, Felix Rösch, Robert Pilgram, Marcus Sander, Carl Ludwig Wetzig
Animation
Anne Isensee
World Sales
interfilm Berlin Short Film Sales and Distribution
Animation Perspectives 2023
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Miles Davis: What’s Love Got to Do with It
Irina Rubina
A colourful luminous river flows through the black void. Geometrical surfaces dance around wondrous organic plants. Tina Turner’s hit in an enchanting animated jazz version.
Filmstill Miles Davis: What’s Love Got to Do with It

Miles Davis: What’s Love Got to Do with It

Miles Davis: What’s Love Got to Do with It
Irina Rubina
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
Germany
2022
4 minutes
English

A colourful luminous river flows through the black void. Geometrical surfaces dance in small repeating loops around wondrous organic plants. The abstract lines, rectangles and semicircles briefly form animated figures. Tina Turner’s classic in the musical interpretation of Miles Davis and the animated visual world of Irina Rubina and Michelle Brand.

André Eckardt

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Director
Irina Rubina
Script
Irina Rubina
Producer
Irina Rubina
Sound Design
Irina Rubina
Animation
Michelle Brand, Irina Rubina, Lewis Heriz, Anita Gill, Luca Tóth, Veronica Solomon