The work of Lee Anne Schmitt draws on the full cinematographic toolbox of the essay film to reveal the US’s myriad historical and ideological fault lines. This hommage brings together her four feature length films to date, including 2025’s acclaimed, shattering “Evidence”, and pairs them with shorts from across her career.

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.

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.

One-hundred years ago, avant-garde artist presented their groundbreaking works at the matinée “Der absolute Film” (Absolute Film). We honour this important event in the history of abstract moving images with a live performance by the artist duo kinoMANUAL, modelled on the original event.

The Video Synthesizer. Exploring a Lost History of Electronic Animation

The video synthesizer, a piano for making and manipulating mov- ing 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.