Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija met a few years ago at the DFFB in Berlin, became friends and later started making films together. In the new episode of Talks’n’Topics, they talk to Borjana Gaković about what makes their collaboration special, the documentary in fiction, bureaucracy and sexuality in film. Read More
Berlin-based Milena Gierke’s Super 8 films exist within a small yet formidable tradition of experiential diary and portrait films that combine playfulness with innovative seriousness. She studied experimental film at… Read More
FILZ entstand 2012 als selbstorganisiertes und autonomes Filmseminar innerhalb der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig.
Alle Beteiligten verbindet ein starkes Interesse an künstlerischem, dokumentarischem Arbeiten, mit Schwerpunkt auf dem bewegten Bild.
Mit Luc-Carolin Ziemann sprechen Clara Wieck, Juliane Jaschnow, Jonas Matauschek und Nick Teplov – vier von aktuell vierzehn aktiven Mitgliedern von FILZ – über das Kollektiv, aktuelle gemeinsame Projekte und Netzwerke sowie die Wichtigkeit des permanenten Austauschs. Read More
Columbus gazes happily from the wings of the dove that carries him over and through the world. Visualised by a papercut, a profile that seems to consist only of a nose and a single eye, he appears as an anti-version of the explorer – mischievous, down-to-earth, completely without ambitions of wanting to claim ownership. It’s an unusual protagonist Sonja Rohleder has animated here in co-direction with Veronika Samartseva for Keimzeit’s song Kolumbus, and yet, it’s prototypical of Rohleder’s animation style and production process. Read More
“Please Stop Breaking the Windows. Still Occupied,” a text panel that casually appears in Marian Mayland’s first single-channel video work, already pointing in the direction of her later films. Read More
Birgit Hein was among the most important figures of avant-garde film culture in Germany and Europe. Along with her ex-husband and collaborator Wilhelm Hein, she led film into radical and uncharted territories, concerning herself unreservedly with the development, criticism and dissemination of avant-garde film.
She passed away in February 2023 at the age of 80, leaving behind a trail of pioneering accomplishments, singular in their scope and significance. Read More
Film festivals, or more precisely, the film-cultural, social and economic roles of film festivals have become the subject of discussion, and that not just since the corona pandemic. The unique… Read More
Anna Roller is a director and writer from Munich, she already experimented with the camera as a child and teenager. Since 2014 she studied at the University of Television and Film.
With Borjana Gaković Anna Roller talks about her short films PAN (2017) and GÖR (2021), which successfully screened at festivals worldwide and won awards. Read More
As an artist, Betina Kuntzsch has developed the genre of video drawing, often combining hand-drawn animations with historical film, photo and archive material to create animated, documentary short films. Betina Kuntzsch talks with Borjana Gaković about her short film HALMASPIEL (Chinese Checkers, 2017) – which tells the story of her mother. Read More
The Short Film Conference’s recent event sought to examine not only how we bring audiences to short films, but why it is crucial to do so. With a large number… Read More
An image that fits to a T – what is that exactly? And what precedes it – perhaps another image, one before the inner eye, or merely just a vague thematic hunch? These are questions that arise quickly when you explore and engage yourself with Volker Schlecht, who pivots back and forth between the moving and the non-moving image. Read More
Borjana Gaković talks to Michael Fetter Nathansky about his 2017 short film GABI, his working methods and current projects. Read More
In their highly readable anthology “Film Festivals – Crises, Opportunities, Perspectives,” the authors Tanja C. Krainhöfer and Joachim Kurz explore the situation in the German film festival scene, and that especially during and after the corona pandemic. Read More
Alison Kuhn is one of Germany’s most interesting young filmmakers – she is a writer, actress and director and has made a name for herself in recent years with multiple… Read More
An interview with Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, head of Berlinale Shorts, together with an overview of events related to short film at the Berlinale, the largest audience festival in the world. Read More
In Folge der aktuellen Situation in Israel und dem Gazastreifen wurden eine Reihe von Filmfestivals, wie auch andere Kulturveranstaltungen, abgesagt. Die Absagen standen im Zeichen der Solidarität mit den… Read More
Das independent Label purge.xxx veröffentlicht im November Dirk Schaefers Original-Soundtracks für Filme von Matthias Müller: The Memo Book (1989), Home Stories (1990), Sleepy Haven (1993), Pensão Globo (1999) und Vacancy… Read More
Unifrance hat mit einer eigens dafür eingerichteten Website mit der Bezeichnung MyMetaStories im Oktober ein Online-Filmfestivals ausgerichtet, das auch in Minecraft® installiert wurde. 24 Tage lang stand eine Auswahl von… Read More
Im Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung wurde eine »verlässliche Förderung« der Filmfestivals vereinbart. Hierauf beruft sich die AG Filmfestivals in einer Pressemitteilung von Mitte August. Der Verband legte anlässlich der Novellierung… Read More
Das Filmmuseum Düsseldorf und die Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln haben eine Kooperationsvereinbarung geschlossen, um Filme von KHM-Studierenden aus über 30 Jahren langfristig zu sichern. 772 Filmtitel auf knapp 2.000 16mm-… Read More
Im Sommer diesen Jahres wandte sich die Documentary Association Georgia DOCA Georgia) in einer Pressemitteilung gegen eine von der Regierung geplante Umstrukturierung des Georgian National Film Center (GNFC). Dem… Read More
Das Kurzfilmfestival Köln (KFFK) veröffentlicht bereits seit 2013 ausgewählte Wettbewerbsfilme kostenlos auf seiner Website. Jetzt wurde die “KFFK Mediathek” neu aufgestellt. Zum Relaunch gehören technische Verbesserungen und die Wiedergabe… Read More
Auf der “Sony Creators Conference”, die Anfang August im Rahmen der SIGGRAPH 2023 in Los Angeles stattfand, stellte das Unternehmen die Entwicklung und Herstellung eines Ghostbuster-Kurzfilms vor, der ohne Realfilmaufnahmen… Read More
Since 2011, the New York Times has been publishing a monthly collection of freely accessible nonfiction short films in its online edition called Op-Docs. The collection, which now includes… Read More
In early January, Netflix Japan released the anime short THE DOG AND THE BOY. The credits list “AI (+Human)” as the background designer. The fact that the anime’s backgrounds were… Read More