The letters on a departure board turn into grey figures with trolley suitcases hurrying through the high security airports of this world. A red wall abruptly puts an end to the journey of a restless man.
A look over the railings of the all-inclusive cruise industry. Book your trip here and you no longer need any contact with the outside world. Bread and games in a floating modern day coliseum.
Statistics charts break out of their corset of illustration, take on a life of their own and embark on a sensual and orgiastic journey through brightly coloured landscapes.
Details emerge from a storm of images, reduced to black and white, silhouettes only: a Ferris wheel turning mechanically, children playing ball, one of whom standing a little way off, a knife suitable for slitting one’s wrist.
Many have perished from the deadly virus. But sometimes there is a life after life with death. Then a new vision becomes possible: of all the life surrounding us.
If you want to belong nowadays you must know how to work the Internet. Digital natives vs. digital immigrants. A group of senior citizens attending a computer course and struggling with the log-in function.
This film evokes memories of literature classes – but it’s unlikely that there was ever such a dynamic recital of Goethe’s ballad. And completely without words, too!
What’s left are images, ordered by memory. A home, the cat, friends – Otto Alder’s restless photo animation balances openly and honestly on the border between what was real and what was also meaningful.
Hunting for the guinea pig of quantum mechanics, “Hypertrain” translates the synchronicity of different states into a strict graphic concept full of surprising turns.
The young woman’s tongue loosens under the shower. When she throws her clothes on the tiles, takes the soap and wrings the water from her long red hair she allows us to participate in her transformation.
Surprising views of crows and their territory in a deserted park. But the peace is deceptive; shots ring out again and again. Or are we just imagining all this?
A gripping experimental animadoc film about a life ruled by “Zoloft”, a drug prescribed against depression and anxiety disorders.
A box full of VHS tapes makes Justin Stoneham re-examine his life so far.
The desolation of the emptiness of a white page is filled by the illustrated pandemonium of a meaningless journey into nothingness. This animated loop, consisting of only 16 frames, is being drawn over and over again.
