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Hedgehog in the Fog

Animated Film
Soviet Union
1975
11 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Soyuzmultfilm
Director
Yurij Norshtejn
Music
Mikhail Meerovich
Cinematographer
Aleksandr Zhukovskij
Animation
Yurij Norshtejn
Script
Sergej Kozlov, Yurij Norshtejn
Narrator
Vyacheslav Nevinnyj, Mariya Vinogradova
“From this whole nature with its inward birth I have studied and learned my philosophy, astrology and theology, and not from or through man.” Jakob Böhme

In this masterpiece of Russian animation, a hedgehog makes a beautiful journey to nature. The hedgehog appears like an icon, like a light in the night. The Russian-Orthodox Church was influenced by Böhme as early as the 18th century.

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Hotel E

Animated Film
Estonia
1992
30 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Olav Osolin
Director
Priit Pärn
Music
Olav Ehala
Cinematographer
Janno Põldma
Editor
Kersti Miilen
Animation
Meelis Arulepp, Mailis Kuusik, Riina Kütt, Raul Lunia, Piia Maiste, Ülle Metsur, Tiina Mänd, Mati Oja, Triinu Ootsing, Triin Sarapik, Evelin Temmin, Maigi Tross, Tarmo Vaarmets
Script
Priit Pärn
Sound
Jaak Elling
Artistic Design
Priit Pärn, Valter Uusberg
“But for the sake of this fierce dispute (…) this revelation was given to me (…). But what (…) may follow after this I do not wholly know (…). For when the lightning rises at the centre he looks through it, but he doubtless cannot comprehend it.” Jakob Böhme

A drastic vision of the rebirth of the Estonian Republic after fifty years of Soviet occupation: Materia prima and the dualism between East and West.

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Light Is Calling

Animated Film
USA
2003
9 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Hypnotic Pictures
Director
Bill Morrison
Music
Michael Gordon
Animation
Bill Morrison
Cast
Lola Todd, Edward Philpps
“(…) the soul (…) is an awakened life from God’s eye: its origin is in fire and the fire is its life; though if it does not go out of this fire (…) into the light other than through grim death into (…) love fire, it remains in its original fire and has nothing but (…) a desire in fire (…).” Jakob Böhme

A soldier, a woman, the nature of life and love … and the dramatic decay of old nitrate film images.

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Ring of Fire

Animated Film
Germany
2000
16 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Michael Jungfleisch
Director
Andreas Hykade
Music
Steffen Kahles
Animation
Ged Haney, Andreas Hykade, Anita Ortega
Script
Andreas Hykade
Sound
Angelo d’Angelico
Narrator
David Michael Williamson
Artistic Design
Andreas Hykade, Sabine Huber
“There is nothing in nature, since nothing good and evil is inwardly, everything seethes and lives in this twofold urge, be it whatever it may (…)” Jakob Böhme

Two cowboys and lust, violence, purity, beauty … morality is alive in everything. The expulsion from paradise, presented as a creative process in which the principle of light dies.

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Substantia Stellaris

Animated Film
Estonia
2007
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Kalev Tamm, Riina Sildos
Director
Mati Kütt
Music
Tõnu Kõrvits
Cinematographer
Urmas Jõemees
Editor
Mati Kütt
Animation
Marje Ale, Ülle Metsur, Annely Põldsaar, Tarmo Vaarmets, Tiina Ubar, Maido Hollo
Script
Mati Kütt
Sound
Tiina Andreas, Ants Andreas
Artistic Design
Mati Kütt
“The whole outward visible world with all its essence is a signification or figure of the inward spiritual world; all that is inward and what its effects are has its outward character, too.” Jakob Böhme

In the poetry of “Substantia Stellaris”, as in Dadaism and Surrealism, everything that’s dead or living in the tangible world has a signature that refers to the incomprehensible.

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The Birth of a Flower

Animated Film
UK
1910
7 minutes

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Director
F. Percy Smith
“For the visible, sensitive things are an essence of the invisible; out of the invisible, unfathomable has emerged the visible, understandable (…).” Jakob Böhme

Only film and animation were able to show us what was hitherto hidden from the eyes: In Smith’s enchanting time-lapse film, we see the blossoming of flowers in the light for the first time – a visual poem about time.

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The Obvious Child

Animated Film
UK
2014
13 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Stephen Irwin
Director
Stephen Irwin
Editor
Stephen Irwin
Animation
Stephen Irwin
Script
Stephen Irwin
Sound
Zhe Wu
“Every man in this world carries within himself heaven and hell; whatsoever quality he awakens the same will burn in him, the fire of which the soul is capable.” Jakob Böhme

God’s temple is not a cold stone building or a mighty fortress, but a living organism. You, within yourself.

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