Nichts (Nothing)
Hey there, stop for a second and join the moment of useless!
PAUL HARTMANN
Germany 2020, 2:53 min
Pixilation, Direct on Film
Screenplay: Lina Friedrich, Paul Hartmann
Music: Kevin Hupfeld
Editor: Paul Hartmann
Animation: Lina Friedrich
Producer: Paul Hartmann
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 1
Hero
The sea is beautiful. But this beauty could cause one to pay the ultimate price, unless our hero acts swiftly and decisively.
FRANZ RÜGAMER, DAVID SICK, MELANIE SCHNAIDT
Germany 2021, 1:38 min
2D Computer, 3D Computer
Music: Peter Albrecht
Editor: Franz Rügamer
Animation: Melanie Schnaidt, David Sick
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 1
Helga
A simple phone call transports Helga back to her youth, allowing her to leave her loneliness behind though only for a brief moment.
TRISTAN SCHNEIDER, JOHANN-BAPTISTE SCHILLING, MAUD MASCRÉ
Germany 2021, 7:45 min
Screenplay: Johann-Baptiste Schilling
Editor: Tristan Schneider, Johann-Baptiste Schilling,
Maud Mascré
Animation: Tristan Schneider, Johann-Baptiste Schilling,
Maud Mascré
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 1
A Bloody Graveyard Story
At night three young people go to an eerie cementry to use an old ritual to discover the „spirit of the painful bloodshed“. But they did not expect what they encounter.?
LUCA MERKLE, KONRAD LOSCH, VANESSA STACHEL
Germany 2021, 3:24 min
Puppet Animation
Screenplay: Luca Merkel
Animation: Vanessa Stachel
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 1
Anatomie eines Weltverständnisses
(Anatomy Of A Worldview)
Mr. Bulge did not water the Mr. Belly’s orchid. In order to escape responsibility, he spins a confusing web of lies and conspiracy theories, in which he eventually gets caught.
ALEXANDER FISCHER (PESKADOR)
Germany, Austria 2020, 3:04 min
Puppet Animation, Live Film
Screenplay: Alexander Fischer (Peskador),Lorenzo Schicho
Editor: Alexander Fischer (Peskador)
Animation: Sebastian Bobik, Alexander Fischer (Peskador)
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 1
Tick
Before burn-out has burned out it is a flame. And Jane is on fire. She is a very disciplined and ambitious young woman. Her days consist of going to work and ticking off her never ending To-Do-Lists. She does not realize how the flame starts to consume her and how she loses sight of everything around her, so that even after the death of her beloved fish molly, she decides to keep going.
FABIENNE PRIESS, LEVIN TAMOJ
Germany 2019, 5:25 min
Stop Trick, Puppet Animation
Screenplay: Fabienne Priess, Levin Tamoj
Music: Julian Ferreira da Silva
Animation: Mona Keil, Bianca Scali, Levin Tamoj
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 2
Chatroom
In an online chatroom, two anonymous catters develop an unlikely relationship.
JIRO MAGRACIA, MORITZ LAUER
Germany 2020, 7:15 min
Screenplay: Jiro Magracia, Samuel Gheist
Music: Hannes Britz
Animation: Jiro Magracia, Leo Neumann
Producer: Moritz Lauer
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 2
Sommerregen
After an exhausting rainy day, a young woman fights against her growingly overwhelming feelings.
JULIA SKALA, OSCAR JACOBSON
Germany 2020, 6:03 min
2D Computer
Screenplay: Julia Skala
Music: Patrick Kuhn Botelho
Producer: Michael Hessenbruch
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 2
Obervogelgesang
A teenager is confronted with a fresh rightwing extremist graffiti in the train and thus also with a grimace of her homeland.
FERDINAND EHRHARDT, ELISABETH WEINBERGER, MALIN KRÜGER
Germany 2020, 6:22 min
Cel Animation, 2D Computer
Screenplay: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Elisabeth Weinberger
Music: Hannes Bieber
Animation: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Elisabeth Weinberger, Paula Wittich
Producer: Malin Krüger
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Cinematic Experimentation 2
Beyond Bounds Festival
Beyond Bounds Festival (BBF) is a fictional festival with the aim of providing a platform for cross-border musicians and artists who are pushing forward the electronic music culture scene. The concept and design of the visual world is the diploma thesis of Jan Hubl.
JAN HUBL
Germany 2020, 1:32 min
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Motion Design
Bullshit 01 und 02
“Bullshit“ is not a typical explainer video, but is intended to draw attention to the topic of bullshit through its ironically provocative and funny visual and sound, as well as to trigger self-reflection among viewers with the help of quotations.
MICHAEL DIETSCHE, KIRA KÖNIG
Germany 2020, 4:30 min
Screenplay: Michael Dietsche
Music: JK_Production122 / envatomarket
Editor: Kira König
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Motion Design
Achill
The motion design clip Achill by Felix Preis shows the journey into a man’s body.
FELIX PREIS
Germany 2020, 6:00 min
Music: Victoria Hillestad
Editor: Christoph Hans
Producer: Esther Busch, Ben Turlach, Jana Klingeisen
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Motion Design
Eenie Meenie World
How many questions and choices do humans leave pending in the hope that they will go away? A lot. Just like us, the universe has to decide. And it has no idea what the best outcome is and what to do with others’ expectations.
BIANCA SCALI
Germany 2020, 1:50 Min.
2D Computer
Editor: Revan Sarikaya
Animation: Yerkezhan Sabitbekova
Producer: Paulina Larson
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
AniFilm
Face Your Deer!
Watch our protagonist struggle as he tries to overcome his social anxiety while constantly being faced with a judgmental stag in a turtleneck sweater, who is a manifestation of the protagonist’s insecurities.
BESEN DILEK
Germany 2020, 1:32 min
Mixed Media
Music: Hannes Britz
Animation: Franziska Trast
Producer: Saskia Stirn
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
AniFilm
Rusty Halls – Home For The Welderly
In an old people’s home for machines, the residents search for a new meaning in their existence, but they fail because of their age-related ailments. What first seems like a fun pastime quickly reveals the physical but also psychological state of the protagonists.
SVENJA WEBER, LEVIN TAMOJ
Germany 2020, 3:38 min
3D Computer
Animation: Levin Tamoj
Sound: Bjarne Taurnier
Producer: Svenja Weber
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
AniFilm
The Beauty
The Beauty is a poetic journey through a fascinating underwater world, where plastic and nature becomes one. For one breath our concerns and feelings of guilt dissolves between eerily beautiful coral reefs and mysterious depths of the ocean.
PASCAL SCHELBLI
Germany 2019, 4:14 min
3D Computer, Live Film
Editor: Pascal Schelbli
Animation: Noel Winzen
Music: Aleksander Wolf David, Petteri Sainio, Meike Katrin Stein
Sound: Robin Harff
Producer: Tina Vest, Aleksandra Todorovic
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Diploma Animation
Firehead
A bleak story of loss and hope – in a bizarre world where people burn down just like candles.
RYOJI YAMADA
Germany 2019, 7:07 min
2D Computer
Screenplay: Stephan Kämpf
Editor: Michael Bohnenstingl
Music: Makoto Takahashi
Sound: Olena Goncharenko
Producer: Vincent Waltan
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Diploma Animation
Evangeline
Deep down in the swamps of Louisiana, Evangeline finds a deserted alligator egg and hatches it under her bed, unbeknownst to her father Levon.
NADINE SCHWENK
Germany 2019, 9:59 min
3D Computer
Music: Steffen Brinkmann, Nadine Schwenk
Sound: Aliona Goncharenko
Producer: Nina Schwarz
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Diploma Animation
R U Still
A music performance with real-time generated visuals on stage using projection mapping. Simona Miranda Melzer is performing her EP “R U Still” while Dimosthenis Gkantzos is accompanying her with visuals on two projection surfaces, 3×3 meters each.
DIMOSTHENIS GKANTZOS
Germany 2019, 15:00 min
3D Computer, Mixed Media, Projection Mapping
Camera: Christian Neuberger, Katharina Kraft
Editor: Alex Schuster
School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Diploma IM
