Einmal wieder dieser Junge sein

Filmstill Being That Boy Again

Being That Boy Again

Einmal wieder dieser Junge sein
Jan Koester
German Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2022
7 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

His mother starts drinking when he is eight years old. Jan Koester projects photos from his childhood on his own body that tell of loneliness and helplessness in toxic relationships. These Rorschach-like superimposed images put physical abstractions in relation to their violent and alienated surroundings. Shifting between fluid and halting movements, telescoped pixels tugging at each other deconstruct predominant gender norms.

Samuel Döring

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Jan Koester
Cinematographer
Lisa Violetta Gaß, Jan Koester
Editor
Jan Koester
Producer
Christine Haupt
Sound
Alexander Heinze
Score
Jan Koester
Animation
Jan Koester
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award, Gedanken Aufschluss Prize