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Animation Perspectives 2022
Filmstill Miss Ginkgo (Chapter 1)
Miss Ginkgo (Chapter 1)
Tang Han
Only female ginkgo trees bear fruit. Tang Han explains with infographics, sound comments and sympathetic objectivity – both botany and cultural change.
Filmstill Miss Ginkgo (Chapter 1)

Miss Ginkgo (Chapter 1)

Miss Ginkgo (Chapter 1)
Tang Han
Animation Perspectives 2022
Documentary Film
Germany
2021
5 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Ginkgo trees are separated by sex; only the female trees bear fruit. Once highly esteemed as natural sources of health, city dwellers today object to their pungent smell and, as gardeners, prefer the less complicated, more fragrant “fruitless” male plants. Tang Han explains with infographics, apt short sound comments and sympathetic objectivity.

André Eckardt

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Director
Tang Han
Script
Tang Han
Cinematographer
Tang Han
Editor
Tang Han
Producer
Tang Han
Sound
Tang Han
Animation Perspectives 2022
Filmstill Oasis
Oasis
Veneta Androva
A tour of a computer-generated desert landscape and a story of failure: The first casino in Palestine opened in 1998, only to close down again very soon.
Filmstill Oasis

Oasis

Oasis
Veneta Androva
Animation Perspectives 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2018
15 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A virtual tour of a computer-generated desert landscape and a story of failure: In 1998, the “Oasis”, Palestine’s first casino, opened. The peace-making idea associated with this development project lost out against political reality. Game over – the oasis becomes a multifaceted fata morgana of interviews with employees, operators and guests.

André Eckardt

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Director
Veneta Androva
Script
Veneta Androva
Cinematographer
Veneta Androva
Editor
Veneta Androva
Producer
Veneta Androva
Sound
Veneta Androva
Score
Haydeé Jiménez
Animation
Veneta Androva
Filmstill Pink Mao

Pink Mao

Pink Mao
Tang Han
Animation Perspectives 2022
Documentary Film
Germany,
China
2020
22 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

An investigative examination of the colour spaces of the 100 Yuan note reveals a paradigm shift. Officially declared by the central bank to be red, the note bearing the portrait of Mao is, physically speaking, actually pink. This has consequences for China’s political narrative, as Tang Han’s uncompromisingly precise and refreshingly clever cinematic experimental setup illustrates.

André Eckardt

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Director
Tang Han
Script
Tang Han
Editor
Tang Han
Producer
Tang Han
Sound
Tang Han
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Pyramid
Aaron Jablonski
A camera flight around a free-standing rock gets stuck in the moving image. Data smears and artefacts accumulate like layers of sediment and create new formations.
2019
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Pyramid

Pyramid
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2019
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Our hovering gaze circles a free-standing rock on a wide plain. The recording gets stuck. At ever shorter intervals the massive rock formation breaks out of the solidifying background until data smears and artefacts accumulate as fine digital sediment layers and congeal into new formations. The video signal interference acts like a primal force of geological history.

André Eckardt

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Director
Aaron Jablonski
Animation
Aaron Jablonski
Coding
Aaron Jablonski
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Self

Self
Claudia Larcher
Animation Perspectives 2021
Animated Film
Austria
2015
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Nothing is closer to us than our skin. Its beautiful and less beautiful parts envelop the self, separate it from all else. A foray along naked parts of the body takes us from a shiny ridge via a rounded protuberance to a shady gorge. A neck. A belly…ear. A fellybear? Photos, videoclips and sounds form an irritating body collage.

André Eckardt

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Director
Claudia Larcher
Cinematographer
Claudia Larcher
Producer
Claudia Larcher
Sound
Constantin Popp
Animation Perspectives 2022
Filmstill Shape of Appetite [excerpt]
Shape of Appetite [excerpt]
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Magnificent works of art made of fruit once lent the Chinese restaurant business a radiant glamour. Today they are overshadowed by a heavily economised food culture.
Filmstill Shape of Appetite [excerpt]

Shape of Appetite [excerpt]

Shi yu de xing zhuang [excerpt]
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Animation Perspectives 2022
Documentary Film
China
2017
5 minutes
Chinese
Subtitles: 
English

A giant ginger mountain landscape that five cooks spent a week to make: Once magnificent culinary works of art were created in Chinese restaurants. Food was associated with a wealth of money and time. The world today is short-lived, customers have become few and far between. Chefs talk about the connection between food culture and socio-economic change in China.

André Eckardt

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Director
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Producer
Tang Han, Xiaopeng Zhou
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Something About Silence
Patrick Buhr
Life instructions from nowhere: “Take a deep breath, say YEEES!” But the anonymous guru becomes a chattering flâneur through his own psychedelic universe of problems.
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Something About Silence

Something About Silence
Patrick Buhr
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2015
13 minutes
English,
Korean

A voice from nowhere proclaims life instructions: “Take a deep breath, say YEEES! … and stop being boring!” But rules and authority gradually elude the anonymous instructor. He becomes a chattering, contradictory flâneur through the universe of his problem-fraught private affairs. Those therapy units have a really sneaky design.

André Eckardt

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Director
Patrick Buhr
Script
Patrick Buhr
Editor
Patrick Buhr
Producer
Ute Dilger
Sound
Marvin Horsch, Donghee Nam, Jonathan Kastl
Animation
Patrick Buhr
Narrator
Erik Hansen
Performer
Vanja Smiljanić, Sina Seifee, Lia Sudermann, Matthias Conrady
Animation Perspectives 2023
Filmstill Synchronicity
Synchronicity
Michelle Brand
Waiting people in the noise of the city. They begin to move. For a fleeting moment their lifelines are entwined and they unconsciously take part in a choreography of chance.
Filmstill Synchronicity

Synchronicity

Synchronicity
Michelle Brand
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
UK
2018
4 minutes
without dialogue

Waiting people in the noise of the city. They begin to move, passing each other. Their portraits overlap, their bodies briefly collapse and for a fleeting moment form abstract time-space shapes. From the repetition and multiplication of the encounters emerges a daily accidental choreography of lifelines in urban space: delicate, intransparent and widely ramified.

André Eckardt

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Director
Michelle Brand
Producer
RCA London
Sound
Michelle Brand
Score
Vincenzo di Francesco
Animation
Michelle Brand
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The Park

Le Park
Randa Maroufi
Animation Perspectives 2021
Experimental Film
France
2015
14 minutes
Arabic,
French
Subtitles: 
English

An abandoned amusement park offers a secret real-life retreat for young people in Casablanca. They escape their restrictive society digitally into the Internet to soak up international trends and amplify themselves. A camera floats through the tableaux vivants they have formed. Their eyes are frozen, the self-chosen poses seem undead.

André Eckardt

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Director
Randa Maroufi
Cinematographer
Luca Coassin
Editor
Randa Maroufi
Producer
Eric Prigent
Sound
Randa Maroufi, Jérémy Morelle
Production Company
Le Fresnoy
VFX Artist
Raphael Thibault
Animation Perspectives 2020
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The Train, the Forest
Patrick Buhr
A pylon waves its tentacles. The gaze tries to bring order to the jumble of lines and sketches anew what can be assembled from the remnants of perception.
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The Train, the Forest

The Train, the Forest
Patrick Buhr
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2017
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The gaze follows a line of trees and tries to visually order near and distant branches. A jumble of lines sketchily leaves behind what is and sketchily captures what can be assembled from the remnants of perception. Hand-drawn lines conquer the third dimension with digital crackling. A pylon waves its tentacles.

André Eckardt

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Director
Patrick Buhr
Producer
Patrick Buhr
Sound
Patrick Buhr, Kaloyan Dimitrov
Animation
Patrick Buhr
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Venetian Snares: Szamár Madár
David OReilly
A computer animated music clip to dark breakcore beats celebrates effects and mysticism. But suddenly the abrasions of a vulnerable digital DNA are revealed.
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Venetian Snares: Szamár Madár

Venetian Snares: Szamár Madár
David OReilly
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Ireland
2005
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Celtic cult sites communicate effectively with the cosmos, the terrestrial darkness is churned by energy fields and sunrays. Even in one of his earliest works – a video clip for breakcore pioneer Venetian Snares – David OReilly dissects the myth of a homogenous CGI world, revealing the abrasions of a vulnerable digital DNA.

André Eckardt

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Director
David OReilly
Script
David OReilly
Animation
David OReilly
Animation Perspectives 2020
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Virtual Void
Aaron Jablonski
An Instagram user surface ripples, turns into a graceful feedback vortex and attempts to impress in virtual space. Its motif: the absence of a photographic object.
2019
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Virtual Void

Virtual Void
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2019
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An Instagram user surface ripples, turns into a feedback vortex and attempts to impress in virtual space. Every segment is an aesthetically arranged repetition. We catch a brief glimpse of the alleged visual content: in a film studio, equipment and a white background are lurking for their photographic object. Absence is staged as a motif that feeds the vain social media channel.

André Eckardt

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Director
Aaron Jablonski
Animation
Aaron Jablonski
AR Developer
Aaron Jablonski
Animation Perspectives 2023
Filmstill Vonfelt: Je pars
Vonfelt: Je pars
Michelle Brand
Set to Vonfelt’s pop beats, the nocturnal city lights fly by, creating a slipstream of colours and forms. With this animated soundtrack, escaping it all might succeed.
Filmstill Vonfelt: Je pars

Vonfelt: Je pars

Vonfelt: Je pars
Michelle Brand
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
Germany,
France
2023
4 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
None

You need momentum to escape it all. Vonfelt packs the necessary energy into unstoppable pop beats and verbal images. On a backdrop of fleeting nocturnal city lights, Michelle Brand creates a refreshingly dynamic slipstream of fading forms and intense colours. You let yourself fall gently and with a smile into the rush of acceleration.

André Eckardt

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Director
Michelle Brand
Producer
Stink Films
Score
Vonfelt
Animation
Michelle Brand, Toby Auberg, Lisa Cruz, Camille Gibut
Animation Perspectives 2023
Filmstill Yay
Yay
Anne Isensee
Sphere, cuboid and potato figure hang out in the playground of grey everyday life, pool their skills and jump into a psychedelic cosmos where they blur into each other.
Filmstill Yay

Yay

Yay
Anne Isensee
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
USA
2021
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
English

Sphere, cuboid and potato figure hang out in the playground of grey everyday life. After a literal short trip of the spherical fellow into the gaudy, psychedelic cosmos where colours and forms blur, the only thing to do is to bring along the friends. The three of them pool all their skills in a rubber ball and jump into the new timeless world.

André Eckardt

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Director
Anne Isensee
Script
Anne Isensee
Producer
School of Visual Arts New York
Sound Design
Artur Sommerfeld
Score
Matanda Keyes
Animation
Anne Isensee, Xiaoqiong Zhang, Ash Kim Choi