Film is capable of making dreams come true, dreams of visionary power – the short film genre can be even more radical than feature film in pulling out all the stops, in experimenting, and in beating new paths between form and content. The animation segment in particular opens up unimagined visual possibilities, again and again. In these cases, the world is not supposed to be elucidated, but to be enriched by at least one new dimension. At this year's Cologne Conference, kurzfilmfreun.de Köln – whose 3rd Short Film Festival, "UNLIMITED," runs from 18 to 23 November 2009 – present a short film program in the "Short Visions" section that is not only fun to watch, but provides all new perspectives: on people, on the walls of buildings, on bricks of modeling clay, and on death.
NOTEBOOK (NOTEBOEK)
The Netherlands 2008 / Evelien Lohbeck / Animation / 4‘52‘‘
The Film consists of four experimental shorts about the attempt to mess up reality. In these films, illusions and expectations are challenged.
NIAF - Ursula van den Heuvel / ursula@niaf.nl
THE CONTROL MASTER
England 2008 / Run Wrake / Animation / 6‘45‘‘
In the peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat…
Veer – Dan Perlet / dan.perlet@corbis.com
TERMINAL
Germany 2009 / Jörg Wagner / Documentation / 8‘30‘‘
A journey into the strange and wonderful world of container terminals. Images, editing and music condense the rhythms of a working day to form a fascinating and poetic vision.
Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg / sales@shortfilm.com
WAVES OF TIME
Germany 2009 / Evgenia Gostrer / Animation / 2‘20‘‘
Commemoration, reality, imagination. Are there boundaries?
Evgenia Gostrer / evgenia.gostrer@gmx.de
THE DEATH OF ONE
Germany 2009 / Patrick Doberenz, Philipp Enders / Documentation / 32‘00‘‘
He is already two years beyond the average life expectancy. Now his time has come: He dies. His wife Gisela and his son face the sobering mundanity of saying goodbye.
Patrick Doberenz / office@yeahlity.de
Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln / dilger@khm.de
MUTO
Italy 2008 / Blu / Animation / 6‘52‘‘
An ambiguous surrealistic animation, painted on public walls in Baden and Buenos Aires.
Sasso Passo Agenzia / andrea_martignoni@fastwebnet.it
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME PART 1
Germany/Israel 2007 / Amit Epstein / Experimental / 15‘00‘‘
A trilogy about the tendencies of Jews to return to Europe, as many young Israelis find themselves attached to a homeland in which they weren’t born, being perfectly aware of the victim-victimizer relationship.
Amit Epstein / melancholicjoy@gmail.com
CONNY AND HER PONY
Germany 2008 / Robert Pohle, Martin Hentze / Animation / 4‘50‘‘
Like a collage, this animation depicts the thoughts of 11-year-old Conny who doesn’t manage to get her pony into the bus of her small Swiss city Schaffhausen. Conny’s imaginative quest for the culprits leads through several notional scenarios…
Robert Pohle / robert_pohle@yahoo.de
BLACK MILK
Germany 2008 / Sunjha Kim / Experimental / 2’52’’
This movie starts with the objection of Coat Black on his identity. According to Coat Black, he is not Black Coat but Coat Black. Through the objection of Coat Black, the author tries to grant identity to the adjective black by separating it from the noun.
Sunjha Kim / tjswhk83@hotmail.com
Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln / dilger@khm.de