Austria 2009, 5 min, Digital, BetaSP, HD
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer: Veronika Schubert
An analytical and entertaining look at verbal clichés of German language crime series. When similar situations collide with one another, they tend to take each other ad absurdum, which leads to extremely humorous end results. For this film Veronika Schubert animated about 3.000 pieces of paper covered in drawings and partially erased sketches.

Austria 2009, 8 min, BetaSP
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer/Sound: Michaela Schwentner
The shoes and blue headscarf stand out from the diffuse white space (of thought) in which Michaela Schwentner moves around in a half dancing, half haphazard manner. They are vague memories that the protagonist filters out of the female voices from various films, personal moments, then again staged sequences – like a choreography of hazy memories.

Canada 2008, 5 min
Director: Théodore Ushev | Producer: Marc Bertrand | Executive producer: René Chénier | Music: Alexander Mossolov | Sound design: Olivier Calvert | Re-recording: Jean Paul Vialard, Shelley Craig | Digital imaging specialist: Susan Gourley | Technical coordinator: Julie Laperrière
The film by Théodore Ushev, inspired by Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, is a furious exploration of the topic “Man and Industry”, accompanied by modernistic music and created with the shortest of rhythmic cuts. Between the repeatedly superimposed real pictures and two-dimensional graphics, various quotes from socialist propaganda-art flare up.

China 2008, 8 min, BetaSP
Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Sun Xun | Cinematographer: Yang Ze | Producer: Zhou Lei
Sun Xun is one of the most extraordinary young artists from China who – comparable to the South African artist William Kentridge – works primarily for the art space. The pictorial film Coal Spell condenses oppressive moods and scenes from China’s past and present and leaves an irritating aftertaste.

Chile 2007, 4 min, DigiBeta
Directors/Screenwriters/Cinematographers/Editors/Producers: Niles Atallah, Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Cast: Paula Navarrete
Lucia is the first part of the film series Lucia, Luis and the Wolf, in which the story of three characters is illustrated in one single setting. In a quaintly furnished room all pieces of furniture come to life, charcoal drawings overrun the walls – and a whispering girl’s voice makes hairs stand on end.

Chile 2008, 4 min, DigiBeta
Directors/Screenwriters/Cinematographers/Editors/Producers: Niles Atallah, Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Cast: Paula Navarrete
After Lucia told us about her love for Luis in the eponymous film, creating confusing and nightmarish happenings, we experience a story from a literally reverse perspective in Luis. The room that was totally destroyed in Lucia is reassembled, bit by bit, until a drawn curtain refuses us admittance.

Israel 2008, 5 min, DV
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer: Guli Silberstein
The pictures suggest a thermal imaging camera, originating from a documentary television picture. A little excerpt of reality that we don’t have to confront personally, but which is rather communicated to us in silhouettes through extreme slow motion images. A family portrait with a running child, taken on the street. But can we really perceive what is happening there?

Canada 2008, 5 min, Digital
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer: Patrick Bergeron   
Loop Loop is the first short film by Patrick Bergeron, who was responsible for the special effects in films such as The Matrix. A train journey to Hanoi provided him with the visual basic material, selected details from which offer impressive insights into the on-site reality. The montage of multiple horizontal stripes on the other hand comes together to form an almost abstract picture.

Germany 2010, 10 min, HD
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer/Music: Thorsten Fleisch
Speed and resistance, standstill. The Greek “dromos” stands for a footrace, conjures up images of maths and physical experiments. Thorsten Fleisch moves between the poles of natural science and its artistic realization, completely digital and analogue at the same time. A film like a sculpture of speed, like a meditation on the topic itself.

USA 2009, 4 min, Digital, DigiBeta, HD
Director/Screenwriter/Producer: Alexei Tylevich | Editor: Volker Besseling @ Logan | Production: Logan
Violent, pornographical, freakish: a weird underworld drug story, randomly captured on tape by a choppy and rarely focussed camera. A Volta is one of the latest music videos of the HipHop project N.A.S.A. (“North America South America”) by Spike Jonze’s brother Sam Spiegel and Ze Gonzales.

France 2009, 16 min, 35 mm
Director/Screenwriter: H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain) | Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin | Executive producers: Stéphane Kooshmanian (Addict), Maurice Prost (Mikros), Nicolas Schmerkin (Autour de Minuit) | Associate producer: Sandrine Demonte | Editors: Sam Danesi, Stephen Berger | Original music: Human Worldwide
The short that was already viewed as a cult film in France long before its Oscar win, not least because of its celebrated narrator, stands out due to its basic idea, which can practically only be realised in the animation department. All players and objects in this action-crime and Armageddon-parody appear as logos of internationally well-known brands. A fantastic persiflage on Hollywood and the US consumer-culture.