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)
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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