Transformation: Welt
Tuesday, 22. Mar 2022 // 19:00 Uhr @ W1 – Zentrum für junge Kultur Theatersaal
A History of the World in 10.000 Bricks
Germany 2021, color, 7 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Matthias Daenschel
Production: Matthias Daenschel
The history of humanity is a story of construction and decay, of evolution and revolution.
Sun Surface
France / Germany / Netherlands 2021, color, 24 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Benjamin Ramirez Perez, Vincent Ceraudo
Production: Bertrand Scalabre
A Science Fiction film set in Ordos, inner Mogolia, in the Chinese Gansu Desert, as well as in Shanghai. It merges various narrative and thematic threads, linking aesthetic and sociopolitical discourses around the concept of accelerationism and its connection to solar energy and the image of the sun.
Average Happiness
Switzerland 2019, color, 7 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Maja Gehrig
Production: Olivier Zobrist
During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.
Amygdala
Greece 2021, color, 22 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Maria Hatzakou
Production: Maria Hatzakou
Two sisters, Anna & Melina, spend the last days of summer together. Anna will soon leave for college and Melina cannot handle the separation. She will crash Anna’s party, making this night for her sister a bloody night to remember.
Virus in Gelee
Germany 2020, color, 3 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Volker Heymann
Production: Volker Heymann
The topic "Corona" transferred into the miniature world of gummi bears.
Anthropocene
Germany 2019, color, 2 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Moritz Schuchmann
Production: Moritz Schuchmann
This movie investigates the effects of global industrial capitalism. The international port city of Hamburg serves as an example of mass consumption, environmental pollution, gentrification and exploitation. Through the sequential animation of satellite images of the city, the extent of human interference in natural ecosystems is radically depicted. Repeated sequences in image and sound symbolize the unstoppability of the global machinery as well as the loss of all individuality through mass production.
Soup
Germany 2021, color, 7 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Karolin Twiddy
Production: Karolin Twiddy
Soup takes us into the microcosm – a parallel world with its own beings, laws and possibilities. This world is invaded by a lot of blue particles. While performing their routines, the microcosms’ inhabitants bump into the intruders, that hold a different fate for each of them. When one of the inhabitants investigates the particle’s source, a change of view reveals their origin.
The Angel of History
Germany 2019, color, 10 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Eric Esser
Production: Eric Esser, Eric Esser
A border in Europe. A painting by Paul Klee. A poem by Walter Benjamin. A film about yesterday and today, and how difficult it is to recognize one behind the other.
Big Booom
Russia 2016, color, 4 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Marat Narimanov
Production: Marat Narimanov
History of the world in four minutes.