A tennis player is driven to despair by his opponent, a devious blue Cheshire cat. After her serve, she uses wicked magic to manipulate the spatial coordinates and establishes the one, ruthless rule: Now the court keeps rotating and with every return the player, long-since destined to lose, crowns himself the invincible opponent. A creative tennis nightmare.

André Eckardt

A video game gone amusingly and philosophically astray: The tennis player character slips off the Centre Court into a parallel world and is robbed of his racket. The quirky match turns into a desperate journey of self-discovery outside the rules of the game. A pathetic Roger Federer, rendered in polygon style, stumbles over glitches and rowdy side characters. In Franz Impler’s 3D animation, the design looks like an undead remnant of the gaming past and becomes a subversive player.

André Eckardt