kurz & knapp // Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

AlieNation

An animation-short about puberty, based on real life interviews with teenagers.

Deutschland
00:06:14
Director: Laura Lehmus
Production: Laura Lehmus
Photography: -
Editing: -
Music: -
Sound: César Fernández Borrás, Dirk Böll, Sebastian Müller
Languages: de
Subtitles: en
Year: 2014
A38-Production Grant

Cinelife

CINELIFE is a found footage vita. „Life, every now and then, behaves as if it had seen to many bad movies. When everything fits too well, the beginning, the middle and the end. From fade in to fade out.“ (Humphrey Bogart in „The Barefoot Contessa“)

Deutschland
00:05:45
Director: Harald Schleicher
Production: Harald Schleicher
Photography: Nils Keber
Editing: Harald Schleicher
Music: Richard Kristen
Sound: Harald Schleicher
Languages: en
Year: 2015
Website

Bad Fotoshop

This video animation is dedicated to all the record sleeves from the 70ies that Avignon used to look at, when he was a teenager. He awakens them to a new live and pays tribute to the brilliant monthy python animation-style.

Deutschland
00:03:23
Director: JIm Avignon
Production: Jim Avignon
Photography: x
Editing: Animation: Cutja
Music: x
Sound: x
Year: 2014
Website

I ♥ Jesse Eisenberg

In this video Felix Leffrank tells the US actor Jesse Eisenberg about his current research on the subject of acting and authenticity. Via bluescreen he gets into scenes from films in which Eisenberg is playing.

Deutschland
00:05:49
Director: Felix Leffrank
Production: Felix Leffrank
Photography: Felix Leffrank/Filip Krause
Editing: Felix Leffrank
Music: Felix Leffrank
Sound: Felix Leffrank
Languages: de
Subtitles: en
Year: 2015
Website
World Premiere

MYSELF SMOKE

MYSELF tries to quit smoking.

Deutschland
00:01:36
Director: Andreas Hykade
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Photography: Andreas Hykade
Editing: Andreas Hykade
Music: Heiko Maile
Sound: Heiko Maile
Languages: en
Year: 2014

Procrastination

Procrastination is a pretty universal phenomenon. The possibility of instant satisfaction often appears far more attractive than some vague reward in the future. That is why many of us suddenly start to do the dishes, vacuum clean or tidy up the flat when we really should be preparing for an approaching deadline.

Schweden, Dänemark
00:06:01
Director: Björn Perborg
Production: Björn Perborg
Photography: Björn Perborg
Editing: Björn Perborg
Music: Astor Piazzolla, Björn Perborg
Sound: Björn Perborg
Languages: en
Year: 2015
Website
World Premiere

WINNERS Chapter #1

The trivialization of the human experience, the cult of superficiality disguised as ephemeral glory, the role of ordinary people as stars, the exhibition of privacy and its high degree of spectacle are part of the imaginary of TV reality or programs belonging to the genre called "Game Show" which are reproduced as commodities in the global community.

Argentinien
00:00:48
Director: Karina Acosta
Production: Karina Acosta
Photography: none
Editing: Gisela Toledo
Music: none
Sound: Karina Acosta & Giesela Toledo
Year: 2014
German Premiere

Home Leave

The cows already got used to the compressor in the kitchen. The crows did, too.

Deutschland
00:02:27
Director: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Production: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Photography: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Editing: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Music: Spieluhr: "Glück auf!"
Sound: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Languages: de
Subtitles: en
Year: 2015

Twelfth Man

In February 2014 thousands of Newcastle and Sunderland supporters faced off during lunch time hours prior to the second derby match of the season. The film focuses on the minutes before the game and shows the angst, antagonism and rivalry between opposing fans, but also togetherness – the football supporter being a part of a group.

Großbritannien
00:05:41
Director: Duane Hopkins
Production: Samm Haillay
Photography: Various
Editing: Michael Gardiner, John Minton
Music: N/A
Sound: Michael Gardiner
Year: 2015

Slaves of the Rave

A short animated comedy, depicting an audience’s reaction to different types of music.

Großbritannien
00:02:40
Director: William Garratt
Production: William Garratt
Photography: William Garratt
Editing: William Garratt
Music: William Garratt
Sound: William Garratt
Year: 2014
Website

Dancing Chesthair

Fiona Rukschcio disengaged the male chest hair into the center of the clip to the existence of drawings, collages and photographs were made of still lifes. This music video is a further move in the direction of propaganda for the scorned chest hair.

Österreich
00:03:20
Director: Fiona Rukschcio
Production: Fiona Rukschcio
Photography: Fiona Rukschcio
Editing: Fiona Rukschcio, Nicola Boigner, Dirk Pfeifer
Music: Wanja Hof
Sound: Wanja Hof
Year: 2014
World Premiere

MY BBY 8L3W

MY BBY 8L3W is a video collage about women who present their pet on the internet. The women speak simultaneously the same phrases, which swells to a common meaningless song.

Deutschland
00:03:02
Director: Künstklergruppe Neozoon
Production: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Photography: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Editing: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Music: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sound: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Languages: en
Year: 2014

Goulash Face

Rigoletti visits her old friend Frank. He offers Ecstasy. And it's a big surprise to her taking it. It's a amazing long time since it effects. She has to leave immediately. A flight in a cab is following. At home in bed she fights against the goulash face.This is how drugs without sex and Roch'n'Roll work.

Deutschland
00:05:58
Director: Marion Pfaus
Production: Marion Pfaus
Photography: Sandra Schuck
Editing: Marion Pfaus
Music: -
Sound: Marion Pfaus
Languages: de
Subtitles: en
Year: 2014
Website

We Did This and That

Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak achieving Guinness World Records. These are absurd records based on uncommon ideas, where Oblak and Novak use a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, as a reference to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society.

Slowenien
00:00:39
Director: Nika Oblak, Primoz Novak
Production: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Photography: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Editing: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Music: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sound: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Year: 2014

MYSELF UNIVERSE

MYSELF tries to remember the secret of the universe.

Deutschland
00:01:34
Director: Andreas Hykade
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Photography: Andreas Hykade
Editing: Andreas Hykade
Music: Heiko Maile
Sound: Heiko Maile
Languages: en
Year: 2014

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