Der Einsatz sogenannter Künstlicher Intelligenz ist in aller Munde und nimmt mit jeder Machine-Learning-Verbesserung auch in der Filmherstellung Fahrt auf. Nun ist ein Manifest erschienen, in der nicht die… Read More
Setting out in 2014, Gegenkino in Leipzig marked its 10th anniversary this year (missing out in 2020, the year of the pandemic). The film festival has turned into a calendar… Read More
Film festivals are not only places of cultural exchange and creative inspiration, but also stages for passionate discussion and debate. At a time of global unrest and a shift to… Read More
In Stuttgart plant seit mehr als 10 Jahren der Verein „Haus für Film und Medien Stuttgart e.V.“ auf dem Gelände eines ehemaligen Parkhauses ein Haus für Film und Medien (HFM),… Read More
Vidnoz AI ist ein vielseitiger KI-Videogenerator, der Videos aus Text, Bildern, PDFs und URLs erstellen kann. Einige Funktionen von Vidnoz kann man kostenlos nutzen. Zu den neuen Funktionen gehört… Read More
Während der Eröffnungsshow der diesjährigen Gamescom in Köln hat Amazon Prime Video eine Kurzfilmanthologie angekündigt. Unter dem Titel “Secret Level” entstehen fünfzehn Animationsfilmepisoden. Die Filme erzählen je eigene… Read More
Bis 2024 hätte Guillaume Cailleau noch als Kurzfilm-Regisseur durchgehen können. Im Februar hat er bei der Berlinale jedoch einen Film veröffentlicht, der länger ist, als alle seine restlichen Arbeiten zusammen: In DIRECT ACTION sind tatsächlich selbst die einzelnen Einstellungen zumeist länger, als Cailleaus bisherige Filme. Dauer scheint für ihn also wohl Verhandlungssache zu sein, wie es sich für einen Experimentalfilmer gehört. Read More
Ein Porträt des Animationsproduzenten Fabian Driehorst
FABIAN& FRED – da sind sie schon wieder! Das ist das Erlebnis, das Festivalgänger*innen in den letzten Jahren womöglich oft hatten. Mehr als Grund genug also, sich mit Fabian Driehorst zusammenzusetzen und über das Studio und seine Projekte zu sprechen – und natürlich auch über ihn selbst. Read More
The ADA (Archiv der Avantgarden) collection at Blockhaus in Dresden is a donation from Egidio Marzona, Italian gallerist and publisher who diligently collected artworks and objects (about 1.5 million of… Read More
For about a year now, we have been cooperating with Indiefilmtalk, the podcast about filmmaking, to discuss (short) film-related topics that are particularly close to our hearts. Today’s… Read More
Radical aspirations in the arts of the 1960s swayed one of two ways–a quest for a puritanical medium specificity leading to the path of minimalism where representational reality is replaced by material or structural reality of the medium, or, expanded and conceptual practices that replaced the autonomous realities of traditional media with new expanded realities operating with a double negation–of social reality by art and of art by social reality.
VALIE EXPORT’s Body Art, encompassing film, video, photography, installation, and performance is the focus of a major retrospective at C/O Berlin from Jan 27 to May 21, 2024. Read More
Die Kunstsammlung NRW stellt erstmals in Deutschland in einer Überblicksausstellung Isaac Julien (*1960 in London) vor. Die erste Überblickausstellung des britischen Künstlers und Filmemachers in Deutschland zeigt die Bandbreite… Read More
Listening All Night to the Rain’ by John Akomfrah Der British Council hat den Künstler und Filmemacher John Akomfrah beauftragt, Großbritannien auf der 60. Internationalen Kunstausstellung –… Read More
Tampere and saunas are inseparable — at least in the minds of those in the short film community who have attended or been regaled with stories about Tampere Film Festival… Read More
Für viele bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die sich mit dem Medium Film beschäftigt haben, ist die kritische Würdigung ihres filmischen Schaffens im Vergleich zu den stärker beachteten Erfolgen in den anderen Kunstsparten, zumeist der Malerei, zweitrangig oder bestenfalls korrelativ. Wir denken hier natürlich an die unscheinbare Kategorie der Künstlerfilme, die unbehaglich mit gekreuzten Beinen gegenüber ihrem Cousin, dem Experimentalfilm, sitzt und einen spärlichen und ungeschickten sozialen Austausch pflegt. Read More
The experimental setup is gruesome: a minimal space consisting of perhaps four square meters. Tiled on the inside, with a pane of glass to view through, and a basic foam… Read More
Ein Interview mit Ulu Braun, der bereits zum 6. Mal bei Berlinale Shorts vertreten ist und ein Überblick über den Kurzfilm auf der Berlinale. Read More
Marie Zrenner won won the German Short Film Award in the category of feature films with a running time of more than 10 minutes and up to 30 minutes with ALEX IN DEN FELDERN (Alex in the Fields) in 2023. In the latest episode of Talks’n’Topics, she talks to Luc-Carolin Ziemann about her enjoyment of fiction in documentaries and the importance of trust in documentary film. Read More
On the exhibition If the Berlin wind blows my flag. Art and Internationalism before the fall of the Berlin Wall on view from Sep 14, 2023 – Jan 14 2024 at different venues in Berlin — Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), daadgalerie, Galerie im Körnerpark, and Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg Read More
A filmmakers Q&A – not right after the film but on the following day, and on top of that in a different venue, isn’t that a terrible idea? Won’t the auditorium be empty? The answer is a definite no: Because many people come to the Q&As that festival director Igor Prassel organises every single day of the 20th anniversary edition of Animateka (27.11.-3.12.) together with Chris Robinson – whose main job is the direction of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, yet he also serves as an advisor to the Slovenian animation institution. Read More
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 was founded in 2012 as a self-organised and autonomous film seminar within the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (HGB). The Film Initiative Leipzig FILZ is an association of authors, filmmakers and artists. All participants share a strong interest in artistic, documentary work, with a focus on the moving image.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann talks to Clara Wieck, Juliane Jaschnow, Jonas Matauschek and Nick Teplov – four of FILZ’s current fourteen active members – about the collective, current joint projects and networks, and the importance of ongoing dialogue. 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
Julia Roesler and her collective werkgruppe2, consisting of four artists from different disciplines, work together primarily in film and theater. In their artistic work, they reflect on themes of social minorities, the invisible and the excluded, exploring the boundaries of documentary and fiction. 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