New developments and fresh ideas often spring from the minds of students, which makes this competition an adventurous programme section. The European student film competition prided itself in no fewer than 366 entries, 53 of which were selected.
In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. However, horrific circumstances mean that she will be forced to wait for over 30 years. Using real-life testimonials this animated-documentary raises issues of memory, repression and loss.
Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgement. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.
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Miss Bobo sets out to find a new mattress to relieve her back pains.
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Dozens of people climb an old truck for the wild journey trough the desert and the ocean. Not everybody achieves Europe, where an ambiguous end is waiting.
When the look of love changes into something else, appearances can be deceptive.
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A boy and a girl meet at a busstop, not knowing that the bus will take them to their final destination.
Unaware of each other and only separated by a fragile wall of paper, two neighbors live an isolated existence. The wall constantly becomes thinner and more delicate until, one day, a mysterious light flickers and changes everything.
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A small hare grows up with his mother from whom he learns everything. Their bond is strong, but nature always goes on and never stops. Something that the little hare soon learns.
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It's springtime. On a hill in Lozère, a little girl and her father are planting a tree. Over the seasons, the tree and the girl grow up. One day, as the girl decides to spread her wings by moving to the city. Her father, left alone on the plateau, takes refuge in the tree but winter is approaching...
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Nikolaus Eckhard's ironic study RaumZeitHund (SpaceTimeDog) is situated in the field of tension between chronophotography and cinematography.
As legend goes, Eadweard Muybridge discovered chronophotography ca. 1870 as the result of a wager. He wanted to prove that a horse had all four legs in the air for a brief moment when in a gallop. In RaumZeitHund Nikolaus Eckhard refers directly to Muybridge's famous photo series 'Animal Locomotions.' A dog, specially trained for this purpose, is filmed on a treadmill in extreme slow motion (150 individual images per second). But in contrast to his role model, Eckhard does not use a slender, athletic greyhound, but rather, a less representative, long-eared brown Alpine Dachsbracke. The hunting dog, which is tethered to a black leather leash, is additionally furnished with black and white circular marks like a crash test dummy. The impression of 'scientific-ness' is further heightened in that the color film is consistently screened entirely without sound.
The dog's movements, which are initially smooth, become increasingly distorted; the animal jerks and flounders ever more acutely. Muybridge was also mentor for the film's complex montage. When presenting his movement studies, the photo pioneer grouped the individual images serially and in a grid pattern. Eckhard likewise arranges all shots in his film in a grid pattern (55 x 277 frames) and scans this matrix with the help of diverse mathematical functions. The dog's appearance hence fluctuates 'between violently controlled marionette and seemingly blithe ballerina' (Eckhard). In the end, likewise the film's climax, the animal floats, in motion, with all four paws in the air. The evidence is there, the wonder is possible.
(Norbert Pfaffenbichler)
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Throughout his life, a man is haunted by the images of his childhood.
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The story is a reminiscence of about a girl who wants to be a whale.
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