As a new section within our interview format, we would like to publish Talks’n Topics, conversations with filmmakers in moving image. We start with Vika Kirchenbauer, who was awarded the… Read More
Interview with Vika Kirchenbauer
Auszeichnungen September
[/caption]Tirana International Film Festival (Albania) || 30.09.2021 Best Short Film: MENARCA, Lillah Halla, BR Best Live Action Short Film: TITAN, Valéry Carnoy, B Best Animation Short Film: HEART OF GOLD,… Read More
Film Festivals as Cultural Contact Zones – Potential for Sector and Cinemas
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
YouTube Shorts – 100 Millionen $ für 60 Sekunden Handyvideos
[/caption]In Reaktion auf die Popularität von Tiktok entwickelte YouTube als neues Format die YouTube Shorts. Wie bei der Konkurrenz sind dies vertikale Videos mit einer Laufzeit von maximal 60 Sekunden,… Read More
20 Jahre Autour-de-Minuit – Jubiläum in schwierigen Zeiten des Umbruchs
[/caption] Autour de Minuit, mit Sitz in Paris, ist eine der wichtigsten Produktions- und Vertriebsfirmen für Kurzfilme in Frankreich. Dieses Jahr feierte das Unternehmen sein zwanzigjähriges Bestehen. Gegründet wurde Autour… Read More
Auszeichnungen Juni 2021
[/caption]Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA) || 28.06.2021 Best of the Festival Award: UNFORGIVABLE, Marlén Viñayo, El Salvador Best Animated Short: STEP INTO THE RIVER, Weijia Ma, CN… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2020 – a brief analysis
Ever since 2008 we have published an annual review of the short film prizes awarded the previous year. Now it’s time to look back at the year 2020. Listing… Read More
The gaping wound – Jovana Reisinger’s humoristic exposures of current role inscriptions
“Everyone can see that your body is high-class. You have to make something out of it. Why are you so sad? You haven’t been sitting in front of the TV of life, you have been active. What a guy!” – an off-screen male voice accompanies Max the model as he rambles around looking for a hotel in a city where a male-model killer is up to mischief. The video piece “pretty boyz don’t die” (2016) forms the beginning to the “pretty pretty mad sad” (2016-18) four-part short film series and is the first filmic work by the writer and filmmaker Jovana Reisinger. Read More
Short film festivals put their own history online
In its latest newsletter, interfilm, the organizer of the Berlin International Short Film Festival, announced the expansion and revision of back-looking festival websites. Shortly thereafter, the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg… Read More
Awards May 2021
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull (Ireland) || 30.05.2021 Best International Film: UN SŒUR, Delphine Girard, B Best Irish Film: SISTER THIS, Claire Byrne, Ireland Best Irish Language Film: AN GADHAR… Read More
Awards April 2021
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D) || 25.04.2021 EMAF Award: NIGHT FOR DAY, Emily Wardill, UK Dialog-Preis zur Förderung des interkulturellen Austausches: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD (13… Read More
The Art of Coding – Demos Now UNESCO Cultural Heritage
The demo scene has been around for as long as the personal computer. In the time when computer casings were not yet welded together and it was possible to… Read More
Awards March 2021
Women’s Voices Now Online Festival, Los Angeles (USA) || 31.03.2021 Best Documentary Short: RITU GOES ONLINE, Vrinda Samartha, India Best Social-Change Documentary Short: LUPITA, Monica Wise Robles, Mex /… Read More
Online Aggregators Boom During Pandemic Crisis at Festivals
Long before the pandemic, film festivals already began to outsource tasks they had dealt with internally prior to this and contract work out to external IT service providers. As digitalisation… Read More
Awards February 2021
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (German Film Critics’ Award) (D) || 22.02.2021 Best Short Film: FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, Tom Otte, D Best Experimental Film: UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, Vika Kirchenbauer,… Read More
