USA 2008, 3 min, Digital
Director: Chris Milk | Producer: Anne Johnson | Cinematographer: Danny Hiele | Editor: Livio Sanchez | Cast: Asha Davis, Jorma Taconne  | Music: Gnarls Barkley
A ripped out heart given away to a person who doesn’t want it and the reality it no longer understands. The metaphors of a break-up have arguably never been depicted in a more figurative and humorous way. Pure heartache!

Germany 2009, 4 min, Digital
Director: Michael Fragstein | Screenplay: Michael Fragstein, Vania Oliviera | Producer: Büro Achter April | Original-Music: Vania and the Master | Editor: Michael Fragstein, Moritz Reichartz
“I don’t mind if you forget about me”: a deeply symbolic play on the contents of the song in an abstract-graphical, black-and-white microcosm. The balls of tadpoles, dancing on chains, get some hair-raising treatment from the lawn mower.

Germany 2009, 4 min, DigiBeta, HD
Director/Screenplay/Producer/Editor:Deveroe Aurel Langston | Original Music: Gunter Adler
Like a peek through the microscope: the flickering monochromatic puzzle of forms – circles of apparently organic patterns – emphasises the sounds, accentuates the simulated freefall through the regular structure and makes for a sensual experience.

Canada 2008, 4 min, Digital
Director/Producer/Editor: Fluorescent Hill | Original Music: The New Pornographers
A trendy music video that is simply fun: multicoloured heads growing out of hairs form the chorus backing the singer. Signal colours dominate the surreal world surround the bearded figures. In this universe hairdressers don’t get it easy.

Poland 2009, 5min, BetaSP
Director/Screenplay/Editor: Robert Proch | Producer: Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań |Original Music: The Herbaliser
At night in a town, which looks as if it had just come off the pages of a comic, a virus is up to mischief, quickly spreading and undercutting everything in its way. A modern city-symphony of colours and graffiti, acutely up to date and highly contagious!

France/Austria 2009, 3 min, HD
Director/Producer/Screenplay/Cinematography/Editor: Markus Oberndorfer | Original Music: dday one
Unremittingly the waves swallow up the bunkers on the Atlantic coast, just to release them again the next instant. A rhythmic photo-film that examines ruins and their disappearance. And a cycle which will probably not come to an end until it reaches the Omega Point.

UK 2009, 4 min, Digital
Director/Producer/Editor: Craig Wilson | Original music: Union of Knives
Fighter jets, tanks, aircraft bombs, army sport: the alienated found-footage images hit home like multicoloured explosion of enemy fire – but where there was a fancy for the aesthetics of war to begin with, the satirising comic-style quickly creates the necessary distance.

Germany 2009, 3 min, DigiBeta, HD
Director/Producer/Screenplay/Editor: Linda Horn | Original Music: Stereo Total
Hairspray, silicone, a radio, vaseline, gin and a slice of rusk – there is plenty of room for plenty of stuff in the handbag of the American drag-queen Divine. In listing these items the trashy-flashy music video doesn’t omit even the smallest oddity.

France 2009, 4 min, BetaSP, Digi-Beta, HD
Director/Screenplay/Cinematography/Editor:Olivier Martin | Producer: Jérome Rousseaux | Original music: Jérome Rousseaux ''ignatus"
Affectionate diary pencil sketches come alive, alternating between the singer’s face and copulating lady birds. Or simply the act of unzipping the trousers that inevitably leads to the favourite pastime in the middle of the grass…

Austria 2010, 3 min, Beta-SP, MiniDV
Director/Screenplay/Producer/Cinematography: Katharina Pfiel, Marlene Rudy, Andreea Jebelean, Barbara Wilding, Volker Buchgraber, Dominik Hartl | Editor: Dominik Hartl | Original music: Dust Covered Carpet
A dystopic mood, rain the colour of blood, animals wanting to save their lives – and to top it all a song you can’t get out of your head anytime soon. Various materials and styles of animation underline the natural and artistic diversity. Riveting.

Germany 2008, 4 min, 35 mm
Director/Screenplay/Editor: Frauke Striegnitz | Producer: Frauke Striegnitz, Kunsthoschule Kassel | Original music: ARBEIT, Marcel Daemgen
Doll-like babies, impaled on thorns and locked up behind barbed wire until they finally ascend into heaven and find their salvation. A bizarre and dark nightmare from which one can hardly escape. Frightening.

Germany 2009, 4 min, DigiBeta
Director/Producer/Screenplay/Cinematography/Editor: Gerhard Funk | Original music: Apparat (Sascha Ring)
Rhythm conducts the world. The sky, attired in a dress of clouds, no longer abides by the rules of the present time, it dances to music. Advertising banners dispense with the wind, for they become airborne courtesy of the basses. A wonderful example of music in pictures.

Iran 2010, 5 min, HD
Director: Hamideh Razavi | Producer: Mehrdad Tabatabai | Cinematography: Hamid Ahmid Ara | Editor: Pooya Parsamagham
The light spots of nocturnal shots of the city, ever kept out of focus and skilfully mounted to one another, hardly adhere to the music. The abstract video conveys a feeling of an almost melancholically beautiful city tour by night.

UK 2009, 4 min, DigiBeta
Director: Tibor Banoczki, Sarolta Szabo | Producer/Cinematography/Editor: DOMESTIC INFELICITY | Original music: ETHAV
Zeppelins on leashes, taps protruding from the sky, a partly subterranean, partly dizzying phantasy world, mostly bathed in grey, that sometimes also drifts off into black. And the gloomy request: “Take me away from this world.”

UK/Germany 2009, 6 min, HD
Director/Producer/Screenplay/Editor: Max Hattler | Original music: Basement Jaxx
A pattern of commensurate squares which are illuminated or animated according to the beats. The mostly two-dimensional optics make for a typical 80s-look, that is further enhanced by analogies to early computer games. “Where’s your head at?!”