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Animation Perspectives 2019
Call of Beauty Brenda Lien

“Gloria Kosmetika” – radiant and confident, two women promote cosmetic products on their video channel, along the lines of: You’re naturally beautiful, but there’s room for improvement.

Call of Beauty

Animated Film
Germany
2016
9 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Brenda Lien
Director
Brenda Lien
Music
Brenda Lien
Cinematographer
Lena Reidt, Brenda Lien
Editor
Brenda Lien
Animation
Brenda Lien
Script
Brenda Lien
Sound
Laura Krestan, Kim Lotte Stöber
Cast
Anabel Möbius, Lili Ullrich
“Gloria Kosmetika” – radiant and confident, two women promote cosmetic products on their video channel, along the lines of: You’re naturally beautiful, but there’s room for improvement. Backstage and in leisurewear at the editing computer, storms of doubt are coming up: influencer or servant of the machinery? This web space odyssey of the 2010s ends with a trip through an animated product galaxy.

André Eckardt

Call of Comfort

Animated Film
Germany
2018
9 minutes
Subtitles: 
German

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Brenda Lien
Director
Brenda Lien
Music
Brenda Lien
Cinematographer
Brenda Lien, Tim Seger
Editor
Brenda Lien
Animation
Leonie Link, Julia Merkschien, Brenda Lien
Script
Brenda Lien
Sound
Lena Beck, Brenda Lien, Christopher Weingarten
A fixed, subjective camera. Confidentially but resolutely, a young woman leans toward us and begins the personality optimisation treatment. “Update installed”. Immovable, helpless, chipped for the future, all data capitalised. “Accept”. Wellness turns into science fiction horror, cosmetic gold dust into a toxic threat. The belated victory of HAL 9000.

André Eckardt
Animation Perspectives 2019
Call of Cuteness Brenda Lien

Cat videos are an epidemic. They are a tool to generate attention and clicks. They demonstrate how a creature becomes a control element for human fits of emotion.

Call of Cuteness

Animated Film
Germany
2017
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Brenda Lien
Director
Brenda Lien
Music
Brenda Lien
Cinematographer
Brenda Lien
Editor
Brenda Lien
Animation
Brenda Lien
Script
Brenda Lien
Sound
Oliver Rossol
Cats are highly individual creatures. Cat videos are an epidemic. They are a tool to generate attention and clicks. They demonstrate how a creature becomes a body object and control element for human fits of emotion. Brenda Lien offers a drastic parody of this video language. The pain of abuse goes deep under a skin of amazing graphic design.

André Eckardt