One-hundred years ago, avantgarde artists presented their groundbreaking works at the matinee “Der absolute Film” (Absolute Film). We honour this important event in the history of abstract moving images with an evening programme modelled on the original event with a performance by kinoMANUAL & live soundtrack by Fluxreflektor.

Discover exciting projects expanding storytelling and challenging conventions in both animation and documentary. Three animated documentary projects developed at Anidox Lab will be presented.

In the masterclass, we meet the team behind Punto y Raya. Nöel Palazzo (co-director, curator, producer at PyR) and colleagues talk about personal highlights, important classics and the work of the PyR institution as a hub for the production, distribution and promotion of abstract moving images.

In times of short videos on streaming platforms, we are flooded with animations – often quickly produced and of questionable quality. Therefore, the industry faces a central question: Where is the medium of animation heading? The AI technological shift is changing not only production processes but also the viewing habits of audiences.

Out of the dark cinema back to the lighted worktable. Three filmmakers take us on a tour through the production stage of their films. What lies behind the various frame-by-frame animation techniques that light up the screen, sometimes elaborate, sometimes minimalist? An easy-to-access insight into working with animation.

DOK Leipzig celebrates documentaries and animated films as well as innovative works combining both. We invite all professionals working in animation to mix with documentary filmmakers keen on exploring the creative potential that animation techniques can set free.

Join the Get Together hosted by SEE NL and co-hosted by ASIFA Germany (AG Animationsfilm) and Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) to connect with accredited guests over a drink, make new connections and maybe even find your next collaborator in a laid-back setting.

The Video Synthesizer. Exploring a Lost History of Electronic Animation

The video synthesizer, a type of playable instrument for making and manipulating real-time moving images, has gone through many phases since its inception in the 1950s. Through an evening of film, talks and live audio/visual performance, we will dive into this little known field of moving image history and explore the video synth as a tool for contemporary visual experimentation.

Line, surface, colour, light, movement, time. Animated films are capable of creating an almost endless wealth of interpretations, transformations and reinventions of inner and outer realities from just a few primary materials. In this competition, international animation filmmakers demonstrate the narrative and technical innovativeness of their art, in both pointed short and feature-length formats.

With Punto y Raya, the Animated Film Hommage honours for the first time a festival and an international platform at the interface of fine arts and new technologies. Punto y Raya makes an important contribution to the visibility of an art form dedicated to audiovisual work in its most elementary aspects: form, colour, movement, and sound.

A blind date between two artistic positions: The two female animation directors examine common ground, explore differences, and give each other and the audience insights into their films and work processes. We can look forward to a dialogue about absurd humour, poetry in space, experimental narratives, precise timing, and abstract love.