The following page shows a selection of experimental animation movies utilizing different technical and conceptual approaches. The creation of those movies is connected to a research interest in semiotic theory, the interdependencies between space and time and the mediality of time based art forms.
TOPOS 2022
Places are organized topologically: They are present through structural relations and perpetual streams of exchanging information. Structures of different scales can share comparable systemic organizations. This abstract film takes a metaphorical view on those systems immersing viewers in an audiovisual contemplation.
Topos is an experimental non-narrative animation movie that was realized in collaboration with french musician Romain Barbot alias Saåad. The visuals are based on macro images of integrated circuit dies. A deep fascination with the resemblance with post modern cities led to the creation of the film.
FUSE Film Festival, Karlovac 2022 (Best Editing Award)
Happy Valley Animation Festival, Pennsylvania 2022 (honorable mention)
Kurzfilmwanderung, Leipzig 2022 (official selection)
Motion of the Leviathan 2019
Motion of the Leviathan explores the aesthetics of noise. Through manipulation of video captured from a deficient screen noise is transformed to become the new subject whereas the actual representation dissolves into abstraction. The intention is to transcend the image which is based on a defect smart phone screen from it’s secular origin to create a sublime atmosphere.
ALC Video Art Festival Alicante 2021 (official selection), Klingt Gut Symposium on Sound Hamburg 2021 (Young Artist Award winner), International Youth Media Festival Wels 2021 (official selection), Sound-Image Colloquium London 2019 (official selection), 5th Pori Film Festival Pori 2019 (official selection), 21° Equinoxio Film Festival Bogotá 2019 (official selection), Casting-Screens Virtual Exhibition: HfbK HamburgHamburg 2019 (official selection), Kurzfilmwanderung Leipzig 2019 (official selection), Flimmerfest Hamburg 2018 (official selection)
Granular Deconstruction 2023
Sound: Johannes Ott / Video: Max Bodendorf
Recorded Sound or Images can be considered as a mediated reproduction of space. These reproductions are related to a perpetual linearity of time. Granular synthesis can be used to deconstruct and rearrange the temporal linearity and therefore the spatial quality of the source material. The following piece experiments with the possibilities of adapting the formal principles of granular synthesis within the medium of the camera. Furthermore it explores the audiovisual relationship when both sound and image were temporally deconstructed.
Different spaces at Jenisch Park in Hamburg were recorded with microphones and Camera. The visual abstraction was achieved on location by using the camera not as a tool for neutral documentation but for deconstruction. A telephoto lens with a high zoom was used to capture small fragments of the visual environment. These ‚grains‘ were then modulated by rapid movement, ‚scanning‘ through the visual material.
The approach to sound differed from this. The first step was the neutral and accurate recording of the chosen location’s soundscape. The deconstruction of the material was achieved afterwords in postproduction: Granular synthesis was used to deconstruct the material temporarily:
Small individual sound events found in the atmospheric recordings, for example the musical notes of birds, were elongated to long textures, preserving the tonal quality of birdsong, but stripping it of its rhythmic component. On the other hand, scanning through the recordings in rapid fashion formed a texture of rhythmic sound events while creating a new tonal aesthetic. The result might be perceived as sounding „digital“ wich reveals the nature of the audio grains and the tools and techniques used in the piece. Using digital filters and filter banks modeling acoustic resonators, the material was also deconstructed in the frequency realm. One of the recordings that was processed like this can actually be heard temporarily unaltered throughout the entire piece. The sound frames the piece in very short glimpses on the actual space it was recorded in. At the end, we realize that we moved quite a bit while deconstructing the space, as we find ourselves at the edge of the park on the shore of the Elbe river.
ORB 2018
An animation short that was created through animating a series of charcoal drawings during a workshop led by video artist Max Hattler in Sankt Pölten, Austria.
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