Her films possess a particular consistency: They are comprised of light and colour, even when black/white. The camera feels surfaces and allows us to share in their texture and materiality, take pleasure in them, perceive them differently. Read More
Izabela Plucińska uses modelling clay to create detailed worlds that are as magical in appearance as they are down-to-earth. Worlds that come alive on the big screen in short animated… Read More
Ein kauziger alter Mann steht auf dem Balkon. Die Aussicht ist trist, der Rauch unzähliger Fabrikschlote verdunkelt den Himmel. Fürsorglich wässert der Mann eine einzelne Blume, die in einem rostigen Kasten den schlechten Bedingungen trotzt. Read More
Alltägliche Szenen des menschlichen Zusammenlebens surreal inszeniert, fast schon eine Art performative Installation zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit – so wirken die aneinander gereihten bizarren Sequenzen in Susann Maria Hempels Film WIE IST DIE WELT SO STILLE (2012). Read More
Critical wanderer between artistic worlds She added it all up once. Reduced her artistic work to a simple sum of minutes of film produced. It came to just twenty minutes… Read More
The (Un-)Mistakable Marion Pfaus likes to play with different identities. On her website, the Berliner by choice coyly asserts that she is constantly being mistaken for someone else. Indeed, for… Read More
Short films for kids Children watch too much television. Ten-year-olds sit in front of the box for an average of over 100 minutes a day. Everyone agrees that escalating television… Read More
On the art of creative equilibrium There’s a simple rule in the animated film business: if you want to live from animated film, you have to master the balancing act… Read More
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS – Bjørn Melhus doesn’t want to be forced to decide between Black Box and White Cube Bjørn Melhus is one of Germany’s best-known short-film makers… Read More
The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side Elke and Iris are old friends who have lost track of each other somewhat over the years. Both are fast approaching… Read More
Films from the depths of the subconscious Pale green water washes over the camera lens, forming bubbles as it subsides. The lens seems to gasp for air several times before… Read More
Pursuing the Accidental Storyline Jan Peters is a central figure on the German Super 8 film scene – even though, unlike many other cine-film enthusiasts, he is no purist when… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our filmmaker portrait for this issue is devoted to Corinna Schnitt. Born in 1964 in Duisburg and now living in Cologne, Schnitt has been intriguing audiences at international festivals with… Read More
“What we’re doing is film research” In this first issue of Filmmakers portraits we would like to introduce two of the most ambitous and by now best-known short-film makers in… Read More
