Mind the Gap! – The Undying

Disintegrated into ice cubes, exploded by dynamite – but life continues on as usual. Animation figures are unbelievably immortal and smile at our mortality.Lights! Action! Animation happens between shots. In the projection’s stroboscopic synchronous shots, a fragile, fictitious reality is put together in which life is expressed through movement. For some, inanimate objects are brought to life, for others animation is an artistic technique to manipulate moving pictures. However objectively it is viewed, the fascination remains as animation holds up a mirror to our mortality. The cartoon figure is flat after the steamroller is finished with him, but he shakes himself and is ready for the next gag. Once they have been animated, screws have the potential to continually turn all on their own. We are well aware that this represents a gap between two different realities, but still our perception and interpretation shifts back and forth between the two poles. This fantasy world gives us enticing chills and a desire to learn more as we look beyond death and our own reality. Animated reality is broken and refreshingly porous. There is no law saying that image 1 leads to image 2. The animation machine can stutter, glide, turn in a circle, or provoke quick associations. From each gap between the images, new connections can be drawn and shocking twists can occur. Each space can be filled with worlds of ideas – with theories or with real but invisible phenomena. Animation means evaluating the world, it is a philosophical viewpoint that contradicts all of reality with its own DNA while proving how diverse this reality can be.André Eckardt,Curator Mind the Gap! Animation Philosophy

Decaying (Decaying)

Regie Director: Mami Kosemura / Japan / 2001 / 00:06:37 min.

Jerry The Troublesome Tyke – He Breaks Out! (Jerry The Troublesome Tyke – He Breaks Out!)

Regie Director: Sid Griffiths / Großbritannien / 1926 / 00:03:46 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: British Pathé Ltd.

Jerry The Troublesome Tyke – A Flash Affair (Jerry The Troublesome Tyke – A Flash Affair)

Regie Director: Sid Griffiths / Großbritannien / 1926 / 00:03:54 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: British Pathé Ltd.

Tom & Jerry: The Flying Cat (Tom & Jerry: The Flying Cat)

Regie Director: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera / USA / 1952 / 00:07:00 min. / Verleih Distribution:

Invocation (Invocation)

Regie Director: Robert Morgan / Großbritannien / 2003 / 00:03:00 min.

Parasitic Endeavours (Parasitic Endeavours )

Regie Director: Simon Christoph Krenn / Österreich / 2017 / 00:02:00 min.

Beach, Umbrella (Beach, Umbrella)

Regie Director: Rafael Montañez Ortiz / USA / 1985 / 00:07:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: LIMA

Suicide Mouse (Suicide Mouse)

Regie Director: suicidemouseavi / k.A. / 2009 / 00:09:00 min.

U0001f3b2 (Seventh Realm) (U0001f3b2 (Seventh Realm) )

Regie Director: White Goblin / Großbritannien / 2016 / 00:05:00 min.

This Ain’t Disneyland (This Ain’t Disneyland)

Regie Director: Faiyaz Jafri / Hongkong / 09/2015 / 00:06:25 min.