Archive 2007
Short Film Music Award - The "Leo", Reel 2
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Th, November 8 3:00 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Axel Brötje, Mathias Claus
Sa, November 10 3:30 pm CinemaxX 2 Guests: Sam Huint, Axel Brötje, Mathias Claus |
1. Fische und Schiffe
Director: Axel Brötje, Music: Mathias Claus
D 2007, 8:20 min, DVD, bw, without dialogue
A little boy saves a fisherman and his crew from a fierce fish attack in this beautiful animation, wich recalls the films by Lotte Reiniger.
2. Energie!
Director: Thorsten Fleisch, Music: Jens Thiele
D 2007, 5:03 min, miniDV, bw, without dialogue
30.000 Volt exposed to photo paper - this energy creates images and a dense soundtrack serves the suspense.
3. Postman
Director: Mischa Rozema, Sound: Massive Music
NL 2006, 1:45 min, DV, colour, without dialogue
A futuristic newsreel presents lonely spacemen and monsters eating nuclear clouds. The audio rack employs an incredible cascade of sounds.
4. After All
Director: Dafna Maimon, Sounddesign: Dafna Maimon, Sound: Martin Grotenboer
NL 2006, 6 min, miniDV, colour, without dialogue
An actress sits hysterically crying on a staircase. As her sobbing echoes the person amplifies as well.
5. Bunnyheads
Director: Jim Blashfield, Music: Bjorn Lynne, Sounddesign: Jim Blashfield, Soundmix: Lance Limbocker
USA 2007, 5 min, digiBeta/HD, colour
At first inanimate, a mechanical process inspires mysterious wooden dolls to new life. Everything starts running, hammering, knocking, mashing - a cascade of motion and sounds.
6. Circle
Director: Laurie Gibbs, Sound: Paul Spence/Dillon Pace
GB 2006, 3:15 min, DVD, colour and bw, without dialogue
In this animated short film a circle is a geometric form as well as a sound-wave. Both elements interweave in continuous audiovisual progression.
7. Mammal
Director: Astrid Rieger, Ton: Phoenix The Devourer
D 2006, 7:25 min, miniDV, colour, without dialogue
One day, out of love for his mother, the son attacks her dough for bread. Sucking and digging himself into the dough he wants to come close to her. Ultimately, he has to let loose.
8. Dilshad and Tohti by a frozen lake
Director: Sam Huint, Music: Scott da Ros
GB 2006, 4:47 min, DVD, colour and bw, without dialogue
The percussion soundtrack "dilshad and tohti by a frozen lake" renders new dynamics to the found footage of a boxing match.
9. Rauschen und Brausen
Director: Daniel Burkhardt, Music: Gerriet K. Sharma
D 2007, 4:50 min, miniDV, colour, without dialogue
With two basic urban elements - high-risers and traffic - this animated film shows transitions from concrete to abstract representations, in a continuous back zoom.
10. MeVivMo
Director: Ricardo Freitas, Music: Ricardo Freitas
P 2006, 1:44 min, miniDV, colour, without dialogue
Abstract and very colourful images, tuning with a calm musical theme create a very particular cinematographic tension.
11. Layer 001
Director: Lars Nagler, Music: Robert Henke
D 2007, 5:16 min, miniDV, colour, without dialogue
A massive mountain range seen from all different angles. The impressive width and size of the landscape gets animated by a hypnotic soundtrack.
12. They say
Director: Stefan Fischer, Music: Stefan Fischer
D 2007, 0:39 min, DVD, bw, without dialogue
A rapid flow of black and white pictures generates, supported by experimental sounddesign, a hermetical surreal atmosphere.
13. Mur
Director: Benjamin d'Aoust, Music: Aline Huber/Magali Schuermans
B 2006, 10:25 min, Beta SP, colour, without dialogue
A most simple composition: a boy throws a ball at a wall. Again and again. But the sound is always different and creates a responsive dialogue.
14. A Window facing The Sun (Panjarehi Robe Aftab)
Director: Bijan Zamanpira, Music: Taufigh Amanni
IR 2006, 12 min, miniDV, bw, ES
In glaring sunlight the shadows of people working and singing crawl across desolated ground. They are pleading for rain.
15. Lost Utopia
Director: Mirai Mizue, Music: Alice Nakamura
JP 2007, 5:10 min, DVD, colour, without dialogue
From 5000 hand paintings this animation creates an airy phantasy on the theme of Adam and Eve and the fall of mankind.