The upswing in short film production continues unbroken worldwide. Festivals such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen are already taking measures to stem the onslaught of submissions, having long… Read More
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Book “Kurzfilmproduktion”
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Berlinale and short film
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Deutsche Kurzfilmpreis
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Der Vorfilm
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Short film online – The Golden Age of the Shorts? Part 2
New trend amongst advertising-financed video hosters: Quality trumps quantity It hasn’t even been three years since the most prominent video-hosting platform for short film, YouTube, was founded. During that time,… Read More
Daniel Nocke
Daniel Nocke is something of a rare bird on the German short film scene. Born in Hamburg, Nocke has made a name for himself in the last ten years both… Read More
A short history of the diffusion of video art in Spain
In Spain, work in video has had a long and hard road to travel since the late 1960s before managing to visibly establish itself as an artistic form. Its historical… Read More
Dicht/Vorm: animation meets poetry
The following article introduces a very interesting project originally developed in the Netherlands and subsequently adapted in Belgium. ‘Dicht/Vorm’ is a crossover between poetry and animated film in which filmmakers… Read More
Dagie Brundert
Life and films in the Super 8 parallel universe Super 8 filmmaker Dagie Brundert was born in 1962 in Ostwestfalen, studied visual communication and experimental filmmaking in Krefeld and Berlin… Read More
Podium Kurzfilmförderung
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Light Cone – 25 years of devotion to experimental film
One of the major homes of experimental film in Europe, Light Cone film distribution, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. For the past quarter-century, Light Cone has been a key… Read More
SHORT FILM REMIXING ON THE INTERNET, Part 2 – Collaborative Remixability
The era of the classic found-footage film has come to an end. What was once an important, albeit marginal, but in any case very special filmmaking practice, has today, in… Read More
DVD with German Short Film
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Veit Helmer
Veit Helmer is one of the few German filmmakers who, as a wanderer between the genres, is able to cross what are regarded as the hermetically sealed boundaries between the… Read More
Joerg Wagner
After focusing in past editions of our Filmmaker Portrait primarily on artistic achievements, today we would like to introduce Germany’s most commercially successful short-film maker, Jörg Wagner. With STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS… Read More
German Short Film
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Carolin Schmitz
In choosing the film BENIDORM as winner of the German Short Film Award 2006, the jury recognized the work of a filmmaker who has managed to make an impression with… Read More
Neue Technologien
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Experimentierfreude ohne Gewinner
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Stephan-Flint Müller
Films to chase away boredom: Stephan-Flint Müller «Fliegenpflicht f«r Quadratk«pfe« («Bow Tie Duty for Squareheads«) was without question one of the most popular and successful German short films of recent… Read More
Kurzfilmwettbewerbe (II):
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Matthias Müller
If one were to list filmmakers whose short films have been much in evidence at festivals during the last few years, there is one name that would fall frequently: Matthias… Read More
Kurzfilmwettbewerbe
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Dt. Kurzfilmpreis in Potsdam
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Jochen Kuhn
If one can speak of Germany as having its own “short film establishment”, then Jochen Kuhn is by all means a charter member. He has been active as a film… Read More
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Our latest filmmaker portrait looks at the work of Clemens von Wedemeyer. Born in Göttingen, von Wedemeyer studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in… Read More
Carsten Strauch
Carsten Strauch, for several years now one of the most likeable figures on the short comedy scene, is the subject of our third filmmaker portrait. We hope that this may… Read More
Kurzfilm als Selbstverstíändlichkeit
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