Wann eigentlich ist der Zeichentrickfilm ins Hintertreffen geraten gegenüber einer Fülle von Animationsfilmen unterschiedlicher Techniken? Man merkt: Wenn ich nun laut über Berührungsängste der Filmkritik mit dem Animationsfilm nachdenke, begebe ich mich auf gefährliches Glatteis. Read More
Zwanzig Jahre AG Kurzfilm, zwei Jahrzehnte Medienwandel
In der goldenen Zeit des Kurzfilms reichte man das Dessert vor dem Hauptgang: Nicht wenige Zuschauer kauften ihre Karte für zwanzig Minuten Chaplin oder sieben Minuten Mickey Mouse und kümmerten sich erst in zweiter Linie um den Hauptfilm danach. Kurzfilme brachten Zeitstimmungen auf den Punkt, bedienten populäre Dramaturgien noch effektvoller als die Langfilme und standen für den Reiz des Neuen. Read More
The text is based on a keynote at the Industry Rendezvous with Dresden-based Film Institutes and the Regional Competition as part of FILMFEST DRESDEN on 15. July 2021. Speaking… Read More
A thirtieth birthday is a highlight and a crisis to the same extent, as Ingeborg Bachmann said in her short story “The Thirtieth Year”, the first sentence of which we considered prefixing as a title to this piece. The second sentence reads as follows: “Yet he himself, although he wasn’t able to discover any changes in himself, has become uncertain.” The future may indeed be even greater and vaster than the past, but the course of what is to come is slowly being set now. Read More
Several generations of cinema-goers can probably still remember a time – and it is not even all that long ago – when short film, although still very lively, had almost… Read More
By photofilms we understand films that essentially consist of photographs. Photographs placed in a cinematic context create a filmic experience. In photofilms, the film medium is dissected into its components…. Read More
For most filmmakers, short film festivals and events represent the only opportunity they have to present their films to an audience. Any further exploitation of their work (such as TV,… Read More
(Text available in English only) Before we started production on Love Tricycle, there were not many examples on DVD or in books of how short films were made, apart from… Read More
I’m an independent filmmaker, and I made an 11-min. digital short called MINI DRIVER PROJECT in Northern Portugal in the fall of 2000. Basically, it’s about a woman named Mini… Read More
Recent Notable Events – Last week Irit Batsry won the coveted Whitney Biennial prize of $100,000 for her piece ‘These are Not My Images’. In many ways this marks the… Read More
(Text only available in German) Weder Kunst noch Kino – was passiert, wenn die Haushaltslage entscheidet. Seit einigen Wochen ist es in Berlin eine Frage des Geldes. Nachdem bei einer… Read More
(Text available in English only) It is true that the art of short film serves an important purpose in training emerging filmmakers, and can be the proverbial stepping stone to… Read More
(Text available in English only) 1. All of my dreams are short films. Feature filmmakers, novelists, the heads of multi-national corporations are different. When they lie asleep they have a… Read More
Subject: Invisible short film (Text available in English only) From: ruths aftrs.edu.au To: editor shortfilm.de I do so agree! This school had a short film in competition in… Read More
Foreword The following article first appeared as an editorial in the final issue of Cantrills Filmnotes. Because of the close connection with our magazine’s current theme, “The Short Film –… Read More