Professional Documents
Culture Documents
10-14 March
ONLINE
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Content
Credits
on our streaming platform: 1 trailer
INFOS ► FESTIVAL OPENING 2 Welcome / Awards
WED 10.3., 19:00 3 Juries
presented by 4 Best Practice
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES puppet artist Manuela Linshalm 5 exhibition & Artist talks
Webpage ► INTERNATIONAL FORUM 6 Competition 1
www.trickywomen.at BEST PRACTICE 8 Competition 2
Lectures & Discussion 10 Competition 3
Online Festival Platform FRI 12.3., 12:00 –17:00 12 Competition 4
https://trickywomen.mama.media
► SPOTLIGHT ON – CAROLINE LEAF 14 UP & CoMInG 1
CONTACT SAT 13.3, 15:00 16 UP & CoMInG 2
Q21/MQ Presentation & Artist Talk 18 Austrian Panorama
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna with Daniela Ingruber 21 Work Affairs
Info-Hotline +43 1 9904663
office@trickywomen.at ► SPOTLIGHT ON – SIGNE BAUMANE 24 TIMELINE
Sponsor*innen 26 exploring Realities
www.trickywomen.at SAT 13.3, 17:00
Presentation & Artist Talk 28 Happy Birthday 1
with Djamila Grandits 30 Happy Birthday 2
Sawczynski & Partner
32 Happy OG
Birthday 3
34 Struggling for the Better
TICKETS 37 My Favorite War
► AWARD CEREMONY Partner*innen
38 Remarkable
SUN 14.3., 20:00
ALL TICKETS presented by
47 Artists
WILL BE AVAILABLE Daniela Ingruber
ONLINE ON OUR
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FLAVIA MAZZANTI & MAGDALENA PFEIFER
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► TRICKFILM-WORKSHOP
ZOOMINAR für Erwachsene
tRAIleR Renee Zhan
WED 10.3, THU 11.3, FRI 12.3, 18:00 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: The visuals from the trailer
in cooperation with come from my 2018 short film, Reneepoptosis. The film
ZOOM Kindermuseum, Trickfilmstudio, MQ is about a world born out of Renee’s tears. It’s a world
Price: € 45,- inhabited by small organisms who rely on the salty
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moist environment created from her constant crying.
I really like the idea of sadness and discomfort being the
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breeding ground for something exciting and new. For
this trailer I wrote this brief poem hoping to capture the
► ARTIST TALK: ILZE BURKOVSKA-JACOBSEN, idea of renewal or rebirth after the difficult year of 2020
directress of My Favorite War we’ve all just experienced. I wanted it to convey a hope
SAT 13.3, 20:30 for the future and brighter times ahead.
Artist Talk with Julia Pühringer
WelCoMe
Festival Available with a free registration
JURIeS
20 yEars of WoMEN's aNIMaTIoN! Fromonfair
ourpay
streaming platform:
to gender equality to digitalisation, from International Competition
Infos
human rights to workplace problems to economic and ecological questions: For 20 years, Tricky
► FESTIVAL OPENING
Women/Tricky Realities has been exploring WEDsocial10.3.,
and 19:00
political issues from a feminist and artistic
perspective and shining a light on inequalitypresented
in new andby surprising ways.
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES puppet artist Manuela Linshalm
This year, our films are presented in a somewhat different way – but then again, an online festival
also means that almost the entire program ►
Webpage International
(more Forum
than 140 films) can be watched around the
www.trickywomen.at Best Practice
world! Come and celebrate with us! In animation, (almost) anything is possible. Join us for five
days packed with inspiration and expect theLectures & Discussion
unexpected!
Online Festival Platform FRI 12.3., 12:00 –17:00
Candy Kugel Amelie loy Maryam Mohajer
https://trickywomen.mama.media
We are looking forward to animated discussions and interesting
► Spotlight comments.
on – Caroline Leaf a longtime voter in AMPAS and is a freelance illustrator and is a British-Iranian, BAFTA winning
sEE you IN ThE chaT!
CONTACT SAT 13.3, 15:00 the TV Academy, has made over a filmmaker. She graduated with animator-directress who was born
https://trickywomen.mama.media
Q21/MQ Presentation & Artist Talk dozen award-winning independent honours at the Academy of fine in Tehran, Iran just before living
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna with Daniela Ingruber shorts acquired by MoMA’s Film Arts Vienna. Her illustration and through revolution, war and immi-
Info-Hotline +43 1 9904663 Archives. She developed and acted animation work, such as „Outra- gration. With a background in paint-
office @trickywomen.at
Festival ► Spotlight on – Signe Baumane
Directress & Executive: Waltraud Grausgruber as Executive Producer for “Angela’s geous“ and „Garden&Schnaps“, is ing, she discovered animation after
www.trickywomen.at SAT 13.3,Grandits,
Pre-Selection Competition: Kris Hofmann, Djamila 17:00 Waltraud Grausgruber Christmas” for Brown Bag Studio. featured in various screenings and moving to UK in year 2000. She re-
Presentation & Artist Talk
Programming: Waltraud Grausgruber, Djamila Grandits Through Buzzco Associates, she magazines. Additionally she teach- ceived her MA degree in animation
with Djamila Grandits
Birthday Program Curation: Amanda Barbour, Waltraud Grausgruber has created TV programming, edu- es media production & animation from Royal college of art. Her short
Moderation Opening & Ceremony Award: Manuela Linshalm, Daniela Ingruber cational films & ads. at HTL Spengergasse in Vienna. films have been screened at many
Artist Talks & Q&As: Djamila Grandits, Daniela Ingruber, Julia Pühringer, Marie Ketzscher international festivals.
TICKETS Forum Coordination: Julia Hölzl
International
Office-Management & Submissions: Ina Ziereis► AWARD CEREMONY
I Festival Coordination: Nana Thurner, Sonja
SUN
Pellumbi, Ina Ziereis I Jury Assistance: Nana 14.3., 20:00
Thurner I Press & Marketing: Petra Forstner I Up & Coming
All tickets
Social presented
Media: Petra Forstner, Sonja Pellumbi, by I Synopses & Intros: Artists, Djamila
Ina Ziereis
will be available Daniela Ingruber
Grandits, Marie Ketzscher I Technical Management: Mirjam Bromundt I Technical Support for
online on our
the Talks:platform
FESTIVAL Lorenz Zenleser, Karl Börner I Graphic Design: Heide
► Exhibition at Bildraum 07: I Sujet: Ulla Klopf I
Aufgewekt
Translation: Sabine Schmidt and provided texts I Helping
FLAVIA MAZZANTIHands: Elisabeth Leeb,
& MAGDALENA Mariana Sorgo I
PFEIFER
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our You thanks
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filmmakers, our jurors, donors, our main sponsor, our other spon-
sors, our partner institutions, business and ►media
Trickfilm-Workshop
partners, and all those who support us and oona Valarie Serbest Julia tudisco Renee Zhan
ZOOMinar für Erwachsene
make our festival possible! is CEO of FIFTITU% — a network- is a Hungarian/Italian illustrator is a director and animator who uses
WED 10.3, THU 11.3, FRI 12.3, 18:00
in cooperation with ing association for women* in art and animation film maker based dark, visceral images to explore the
ZOOM Kindermuseum, Trickfilmstudio, MQ and culture, CEO of the alliance in Budapest. She is currently do- ugliness of beautiful things. She
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► AMAndA BARBoUR (film critic and artistic directress of the FEM&IST Films festival):
InteRnAtIonAl FoRUM / BeSt PRACtICe communism, Feminism and Animation in the Soviet union I Stalin considered the artists of
socialist realism ‘engineers of souls.’ This lecture examines the aesthetic and political context
of two films from the nascent Soviet state: Samoedskii malchik (The Samoyed Boy, Valentina
and Zinaida Brumberg, Nikolai Khodataev, Olga Khodatayeva, 1927) and Groznyy Vavila i tyotka
LEcTuRES & DIScuSSIoN on our festival platform Arina (Terrible Vavila and Aunt Arina, Olga Khodatayeva, Nikolai Khodataev, 1928). How did these
this series opens up new perspectives, creates new spaces of possibility and imagines new directresses use animation to communicate revolutionary politics? How did the Bolsheviks think
possibilities for existing spaces. It shows the work(s) and goals of Women in Animation, shifts about gender? The films will be used as case studies to explore these questions.
boundaries and introduces intermediary spaces through Sympoietic Bodies and Schnittstellen ► ReBeCCA MeRlIC (artist): ThecityAsAHouse – how the network of 即席-spaces abolishes the
(Interfaces), highlights unconventional visions and role models (If she can see it, she can be it), private & translates into digital space I Boundaries between virtual reality and augmented reality,
presents extraordinary stories and narratives (Communism, Feminism and Animation in the digitality and reality are becoming increasingly blurred. Digital technology and computer games
Soviet Union) and paints unusual pictures of uninhabited realities (TheCityAsAHouse). merge in film. I see myself as a researcher in the digital. This lecture will focus on the experi-
In short: It is always, and above all, about the power of the other pictures – and, thus, about ment of a white European 30-year-old heterosexual human living in Tokyo without inhabiting a
nothing less than the power of animation itself: Anything is possible! private apartment over a period of time. A speculative exploration of the possibilities of abolish-
► MARGe deAn (president of Women in Animation): Introduction to the aims/goals of Women in ing known forms of habitation translated into virtual space with the help of new technologies.
Animation I Women in Animation brings together a global community of animation profession- Is a new form of nomadic living being constructed in digital and virtual space? A lecture about
als to empower and support women in the art, science, and business of animation by increasing a new form of society and imagery production. The next self-improvement of humanity or going
access to resources, creating opportunities for education, encouraging strong connections, and back to our roots? Let’s discuss the ability to see the existing human condition and transfer it
inspiring excellence. Since 2013, WIA has built a community of inclusion and support within the through data gathering into a digital world, where every decision is based on previous encoun-
animation industry. Today, we have a global network of over 4,000 members, representing all ters creating a never-ending world of choices.
genders and ethnicities, as well as a range of technical, creative, and executive roles in anima-
tion. Our mission is to achieve 50/50 gender parity in the industry by 2025. And we believe that
animation is the one part of the entertainment industry that could actually hit gender parity in
ExHIBITIoN at Bildraum 07
this time frame. On a fundamental level, if we diversify the storytellers, we will get better stories. ► FlAVIA MAZZAntI & MAGdAlenA PFeIFeR Celebrating 20 years of Tricky Women/Tricky
And with better stories comes richer entertainment. Richer entertainment allows the industry to Realities, Bildraum 07 presents works by Flavia Mazzanti and Magdalena Pfeifer. In their latest
grow and expand to reach a bigger and bigger audience. works the filmmakers examine the boundaries of the human body as well as a post-anthropo-
centric worldview. I For Flavia Mazzanti, perception goes beyond the physical barrier and the
► FlAVIA MAZZAntI (artist): Sympoietic Bodies I Sympoietic Bodies is an artistic-philosophical binary divisions of inside/outside, subject/object. Her film Sympoietic Bodies takes us into a
short film that explores the disruption of the boundaries between the human body and its social fragmented diversity beyond the limits of the physical that emerges from the contrast between
and physical surroundings. Starting from a philosophical understanding of our bodies as hybrid digital footage and animation. I Magdalena Pfeiffer’s film Schnittstelle_Interface, shown as a
organisms in a continuous process of becoming, a world beyond binary dualisms is shown, dual projection, was inspired by exploring historical, demographic and spatial factors. Her focus
where both body and city get decentered and deconstructed in their whole. This lecture will fo- is on the materiality of the analogue film which she removes from the camera’s motion-based
cus in particular on the strong interrelation between these concepts and their visual translation. successive exposure to highlight processes of perception and mentalization.
Animation is used here as a sociopolitical tool, where the hybrid use of computer-generated ani- Bildraum 07, Burggasse 7-9, 1070 Vienna 9 – 25 march, Tue.-Fri. 13-18 pm
mations and digital shootings provides different perspectives on ourselves and our environment.
► MAGdAlenA PFeIFeR (artist): Schnittstelle_Interface I An interface – as the physical phase
boundary between two states of a medium – facilitates communication within a system. When PRESENTATIoNS & ARTIST TALkS on our festival platform
it comes to the interface moment in film, an intermediary space inserts itself, a placeholder for ► SPotlIGHt on CARolIne leAF
a communicative space, opening up possibilities for new perspectives on the present and the Presentation & Artist talk, interview by daniela Ingruber: SAt 13.3, 15:00
future. In this lecture, therefore, we will first discuss time, space and movement before consid- With her movies Caroline Leaf wrote Animation history. Leaf is a Canadian-American film-
ering them in relation to the discontinuity of filmic interfaces. maker, animator, directress, producer who is best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers
► WIlBIRG BRAInIn-donnenBeRG (board member auf FC GLORIA, managing directress of at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). With her innovative styles – Leaf invented the sand
Screenwriters Forum Vienna): If she can see it, she can be it. I Female characters in film define animation and paint-on-glass animation techniques – she creates a narrative based emotional
our perception of women* and men* in society. Role models beyond traditional stereotypes content, which has been recognized worldwide. In this presentation and film screening called
present viewers with a scope of action, support and critique to assume courageous positions in “Out on a Limb” she will give insights in her production processes and her latest works.
a world of diversity. This lecture will present two initiatives: ► SPotlIGHt on SIGne BAUMAne
The screenwriters award If she can see it, she can be it. Female characters against clishés aims Presentation & Artist talk, interview by djamila Grandits: SAt 13.3, 17:00
to establish a unique domain for artists with special focus on storytelling beyond clichés. Provid- Signe Baumane is known as a Latvia-born independent filmmaker, artist and animator, who has
ing an economic incentive and a reliable organizational infrastructure that encourages the pro- carved her own path. Her interests are a wide variety of narrative themes, including sex, preg-
cess of creation, pitching and realization of those stories has been instrumental in widening the nancy, bodily functions, love marriage, science and an individual’s place in society. Many of her
participants’ scope of opportunities. The work of FC Gloria – Women’s Film Network is a further films are told with a strong female point of view. She is not afraid to experiment, be provocative
example of the effort to support the growth of the basis to enhance the visibility of women* and or bring the most personal of issues to light. In this presentation she will provide insight into the
women*'s contributions to the Austrian film industry. current production of her film “My Love Affair with Marriage”.
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CoMPetItIon 82 minutes + Q&A
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Wed. 10.3., 19:30 / online available for 48 hours
A space opera and a truck ride to the edge of the universe. Edgelands where everyday rituals, apart- is overwhelmed by madness obyś nie musiała tutaj constant changes in his envi-
ment spaces and bodies merge with otherworldly environments. Snorkeling through bedrooms, and chaos. Based on the poem wrócić | We Hope You Won't ronment and finally succumbs
transforming into otherworldly beings and experiencing amorphous disembodiments when striving Tasks of The Day by Stefan need to Come Back to the stress by disappearing
to meet extensive needs, overcoming obstacles and adapting to distorted worlds of in-between. Ivanov, this film is part of the Anastazja Naumenko, altogether. What remains is
animation poetry collection PL 2020, 9’48 a social structure without
o Black Hole! sleep, this intense time is 아홉 살의 사루비아 | Mark and Verse. a human face in a deserted
Renee Zhan, burned into the protagonist’s Salvia at nine architecture … a city minus
UK 2020, 16’ heart. An honest and very per- Nari Jang, 유령들| Ghosts people in its poetic and cruel
sonal insight into the world of KR 2020, 6’39 Jee-youn Park, beauty.
an overwhelmed mother who KR 2020, 9’55
seriously thought that parental the edge
leave would be some sort of Zaide Kutay,
sabbatical. To move, to migrate, to hope. Géraldine Cammisar,
Adjusting to new environments CH 2020, 7’23
needs whilst dealing with diverse ex-
A woman who can’t stand the Júlia Lerch, pectations: those you brought
passing of time turns herself HU 2020, 5’ A young girl is exposed to an along from home, your very
into a black hole. A thousand environment of normalized vi- They are like ghosts in their own ones as well as those
unchanging years pass until olence and assault. Left alone apartment, floating through others have of you. Spaces and
one day, the Singularity wakes with her traumatic experi- time, space and feelings. bodies that are no longer in A lone truck driver drives his
inside her. An immovable ences and observations, she is Diving into togetherness, em- sync, shifting dimensions and load, a ferris wheel, through
woman meets an unstoppable searching for small moments bodiment and disembodiment. objectives. Physical obstacles a remote desert landscape.
girl in this 2D/stop motion of calm and connection. Dreamscapes and dreamlike and distorted realities that Trapped by his fears and hab-
opera about the beauty of characters blend into everyday you face in those worlds in- its, he hardly dares to step out
transience and letting go. Satisfying our needs is prob- tasks of the day activities of coexistence be- between. of his sheltered driver’s cabin.
ably one of our most important Petya Zlateva, tween boredom, attraction and Paper cutting is his pastime
Wochenbett | Postpartum internal motivations. Four epi- BU 2019, 5’ dissolved boundaries. Pangäa on his journey through this
Henriette Rietz, sodes show what could happen Beate Hecher, Markus Keim, no-man’s-land and beyond the
DE 2020, 4’36 if our needs were changed, AT 2020, 13’35 edge of his universe.
shifted in time, adjusted to
our agenda, or influenced by
ourselves. Needs as amor-
phous shapes, changing in
their own material. A distinct
visual environment of materi- In this short visual poem the
Postpartum is an animation als and textures that suspends main heroine is looking for an
about the chaotic phase in the physical traits of reality. escape from the solitude of An office worker caught
life of a new mother. Pumped routine daily tasks. Instead of between the demands of work
up with hormones and lacking getting her life in order, she and the desire for private
retreat is overwhelmed by the
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CoMPetItIon 83 minutes + Q&A
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thu. 11.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours
An unbeatable princess, a fierce fighter and an island of wild beasts. Stories of exploration and chal- Mor visste ingenting | All Her dying lovers Candela
lenge, of homes and displacement. Of growing up with fierce mothers and grandmothers, of close Mother didn’t know Anna Benner, Anna Solanas, Marc Riba,
ties, sister*hoods and friendships, of nostalgia and reconsideration, of strength and resistance Anita Killi, Eluned Zoë Aiano, ES 2020, 11’40
against brutal regimes and patriarchal rule. NO 2020, 11’17 DE/CZ 2020, 5’33
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CoMPetItIon 82 minutes + Q&A
A mosaic of stories and realities. A storm of Fragments. Embodied feelings, transformative situations. Pilar falling apart and finally reas- Chloé Van Herzeele
An approximation to growing (up), to living and surviving in a beautiful, painful and wondrous world. Yngwie Boley, Diana van sembling and reconciling all Anne-Sophie Girault,
Houten, Janis Joy Epping, the little beings into one loving Clémence Bouchereau,
NL 2020, 10’ self again. FR 2019, 16’46
Carrousel Mosaic dans la rivière |
Jasmine Elsen, Imge Özbilge, Sine Özbilge, Step into the river Własne śmieci |
BE 2020, 10’ BE 2020, 15’ Weijia Ma, Your own Bullshit
FR 2020, 14’37 Daria Kopiec,
PL 2020, 6’26
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68 minutes + Q&A
Wed. 10.3., 19:30 / online available for 48 hours
CoMPetItIon
UP & CoMInG 1 82 minutes + Q&A
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Wandering through strange places we encounter flying unicorns, surreal childhood architectures Some of the intangible aspects
thu. 11.3., 21:00 / online available for 48 hours
UP & CoMInG 2
Some have cats on their heads, others chase forbidden delights. Complacent citizens sip bubbly touché Au Bout de la table la Cerise sur le Gateau |
drinks in closed circles, cocky performers vie for attention on stage, tiny creatures long for love amid Sofia Gorelova, Lise Rémon, Cherry on the Cake
death and decay. From bizarre to beautiful, everybody has to find their own way in these strange Estonian Academy of Arts ENSAD - École Nationale Supé- Chloé Farr,
EE 2020, 3’47 rieure des Arts Décoratifs École Nationale Supérieure des
worlds.
FR 2019, 3’18 Arts Visuels de La Cambre
Listen to me Sing Huis Clos ridiculous performance of BE 2020, 5’36
Isabel Garrett, Nina Winiger, masculinities fighting for at-
National Film and Television School Lucerne University of Applied Sci- tention on stage.
UK 2019, 11’ ences and Arts
CH 2020, 4’28 Jsme si o smrt blíž |
love is Just a death Away
Bára Anna Stejskalová, ‘You’ are trying to get in touch
FAMU – Film and TV School of the with ‘your inner self’, but it And again, they trie to talk
Academy of Performing Arts in
turns out you speak different to each other: and again the In a two-dimensional, game-
Prague
A miserable performer in languages and a self-destruc- other seems so far away. How like world, Dani is babysitting
CZ 2020, 11’06
acliff-top hotel finds her most tion mode is triggered. is that possible? Asthey are twins. Everything is fine – if
primal self when she unex- only at different ends of the only it wasn’t for the sumptu-
pectedly falls in love with a The bourgeoisie is celebrat- Pearl diver table. ous cake in the fridge that he
giant pink walrus. ingin a circular space where Margrethe Danielsen, is forbidden to touch. Late at
eating, drinking and dancing is Volda University College the lost Wedding Ring night, he can’t resist sneaking
Jeroboam followed by dancing, drinking NO 2020, 9’ Elisabeth Jakobi, a look at it …
Bianca Caderas, and eating. This particular Konrad Wolf Film University of
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Babelsberg
merry-go-round could go on
Hamburg
forever. DE 2019, 4’17
DE 2020, 7’11
Cockpera
Kata Gugić,
Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb,
HR 2020, 4’27 Three couples are facing differ-
ent challenges. A middle-aged
hedgehog falls in love with a
Be it at bars, house parties or balloon, but finds it difficult A woman who is in Tehran for
romantic dinners, the people In the desolate world of a to maintain his grooming a nose operation loses her
in Jeroboam like to raise their landfill, a parasite living in the routine. A couple of arctic wedding ring. While her hus-
champagne-filled glasses. corpse of a dog is longing for a lovers are experiencing a cold- band is pursuing his hobbies
However, they all seem quite soulmate but nobody can see ness between them, and two and the employees search
indifferent to the cruelty nec- A lascivious henhouse opera through its shell. Its loneliness oysters are losing patience as the hotel for the lost item,
essary to give their favourite inspired by Aesop's fable The brings it to the brink of death. they wait to be on the same she finds the peace she was
beverage its signature fizz. Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. In the end, only love can give schedule. looking for.
Cocky behavior in an almost it wings.
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Fri. 12.3., 19:00 / online available for 48 hours
Austrian Panorama
From angry geese to forest sounds coming out of a socket to a message from Greta Thunberg: The Rest Mode AI.nsect KlItClIQUe – Auto *
Austrian Panorama covers a wide variety of stories and topics and highlights current positions of Louise Linsenbolz, Astrid Arnoldner, Maximilian Anna Spanlang & G-udit,
female filmmakers in Austria that range from challenging social norms (like the Klitclique music AT 2020, 4‘32 Penzinger, Nicole Rathmayr, AT 2019, 4’
video) to exploring emotional and personal mindsets (Crumpled). From hand-drawn animation (Ru- AT 2019, 3’ Status, testosterone, mascu-
bato) to 3D animation (AI.nsect), the programme features both narrative and experimental shorts linity. This Klitclique music
that are at times comical, thought-provoking and pleasantly bewildering. video is a gleeful montage of
While some filmmakers, like those of Rewind, are still in the middle of their studies, others such men from games, films and
as Claudia Larcher can already look back on a long career in film. Awareness and insights are the YouTube clips riding their cars.
central themes here, on a broader philosophical level as well as in ordinary everyday life. (Marie But what about that therapy
Ketzscher, Berlinale Talents). session? Could that fat car,
Bye-bye, childhood! Leaving be- in fact, not only be a macho
Methods of Ideafinding of male bodies over tea and Flüssige Wesenszüge einer hind her neat children’s room, Metal vibrates and red com- symbol but also a pretty good
Antonia de la Luz Kašik, cigarettes is always a pleasure Bildapparatur | liquid traits teenager Frauke sets out to pound eyes are gleaming, hiding place?
AT 2020, 4‘07 – and a good way to keep them of an Image Apparatus explore the over-stimulating, Terminator-style: The AI.insect * Contains flashing images!
at a distance. Vera Sebert, AT 2019, 7’22 vibrant world outside. Can is revving up for the fight
she embrace and shape the against its flesh-and-blood Screen Capture
Sympoietic Bodies chaos? animal predecessor. Joann Hyelim Lee,
Flavia Mazzanti, AT 2019, 5’32
AT 2020, 11’12 Collapsing Mies layered love – eine
Claudia Larcher, AT 2020, 7’ liebes(G’)Schicht | layered
love – A lovestory in layers
Being creative on request is Julia Alice Ostermann,
hard work. So it’s high time The inside of the machines AT 2020, 2‘40
to visualize the art of arriv- becomes the outside. Com-
ing at a good idea with (not) a bined into a film, the machine
single thought to start from. A language of signs and com- The square defines our exist-
manual for free thinking. Sympoietic Bodies is a study in mands produces its own im- ence. It used to be a painting
art philosophy that examines ages and meanings which are An exploration of Mies van der on the wall – now it is a means
Philosophie in der teetasse | the disruption of the bounda- then reassembled in a playful, Rohe that does not present his of communication and con-
Philosophy in the teacup ries between the human body experimental manner. architectural innovation as a sumption in our hands, in front
Maryam Sehhat, Leila Samari, and its social and physical perfect greater whole; instead, Sizzling passion on the work- of our noses. The end device
AT 2020, 1‘55 surroundings. It follows the animated photos break it down bench: It is love at first sight as an eternal companion in our
story of C, the inhabitant of a into its individual elements, for these two, and they can’t lives, our loneliness. Till death
hybrid urban formation, and connecting inside and outside wait to be all over each other. do us part.
her life in symbiosis with the and creating new perspec- But that’s not so easy when
surrounding environment. tives. you are a matryoshka and your
actual body is hidden under so
many wooden layers.
Austrian Panorama
Sharing adages and proverbs
with melancholy fragments continues on the next page
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Prirodni odabir | Animate Her: Amila de Mel in science. The Animate Her Claudete e o Bolo | Applaus, Applaus and encourages to reflect on
natural Selection on Archiving Architecture series is a collection of ani- Claudete and the Cake Sarah Braid, priorities and future perspec-
Aleta Rajič, Irushi Tennekoon, mated interviews told through Fádhia Salomão, AT 2020, 1’28 tives.
BA 2019, 9’33 LK 2020, 2’55 stop-motion and experimental BR 2020, 4’37
animation featuring a group of le long cri du train qui
exceptional women living and passe se glisse au cœur des
working in Sri Lanka. spectres et tout explose en
silence |
nadirah: Coal Woman the long wail of a passing
Kate Jessop, Negar Elodie train slips into the heart of
Behzadi, This film hits a nerve. Sharing the ghosts and everything
A living sculpture trapped in Renowned Colombo-based UK 2019, 2’23 Reproductive labour too often glimpses of the everyday life of explodes into silence
urban spaces of boredom, architect Amila de Mel reflects goes unseen and is taken for a medical worker, it points out Anne-Marie Bouchard,
melancholia of the utopian on spaces, architecture and granted. Claudette never gets the hypocrisy and contradic- CA 2020, 7’30
museum where she works her biography. The Animate tired of sharing her cakes with tory narratives concerning the
and occasionally amuses Her series is a collection others. But when this activity situation of people in system-
herself by assuming human of animated interviews told becomes an obligation, her joy preserving jobs in times of
poses (cleaning, drinking through stop-motion and turns into exhaustion. crisis, as applause will neither
coffee, smoking, sleeping). experimental animation fea- feed them nor reduce their
At home, her life consists turing a group of exceptional Pračka | Washing Machine exhaustion.
of routine and loneliness. women living and working in An ethnographic portrait on Alexandra Májová,
Something changes when her Sri Lanka. the experience of shame of CZ 2020, 5’02 Sociální Krychle |
body transforms. Her eyes Nadirah, a female informal the Social Cube
meet a woman dancing in the Animate Her: Asha de Vos coal miner in a small village Alzbeta Suchanova, An experimental animated
rain. Will she use her growing on Studying Blue Whales in the mountains of Tajikistan. CZ 2019, 4’08 film built around a single
animal powers and human Irushi Tennekoon, Based on a collaborative femi- sound recording that evokes
eyes to meet, fight, and dance LK 2020, 3’18 nist art-research project, it travel, the need to commu-
her way out towards her real aims to make visible otherwise nicate, solitude, fragility, the
nature – freedom? invisibilised stories of shame, desire for freedom, the arrival
focusing on the story of one of Wash and love. On a libidinous of fall, and our ephemeral
the most stigmatised female connection to an everyday existence. Passing through
miners in the village of Kante. object. an urban sphere of commut-
By doing so, it raises aware- An animated essay on society ing, passers-by, labour and
ness of issues around gender, living in a global capitalist construction moving towards
Sri Lankan marine biologist work and exclusion, women's system based on exponential silence.
and ocean educator Asha de restricted access to natural growth, causing an exponential
Vos talks about the blue whale resources, and their stigmati- increase of inequalities. The
skeleton that first inspired her sation in a desolate extractive film explores everyday chal-
as a child, and the challenges landscape. lenges that often go unnoticed
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puppet artist 13:00-18:00 Rebecca Merlitsch
Manuela Linshalm
19:30 Up & Coming 1 19:00 Up & Coming 2 19:00 Austrian 19:00 Work Affairs 19:00 Remarkable
68‘ + Q&A 65‘ + Q&A 72‘ Panorama 65' 77‘
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exploring Realities A n I M At e d d o C U M e n tA R I e S
These animated documentaries depict the unspeakable and allow us to access worlds of imagination, Amours libres | Polyamory Mizuko | Water Child I Have Made Many Women
memory and dreams, linked to lived realities. Portraits, interviews and stories reflect upon, question Emily Worms, Kira Dane & Katelyn Rebelo, Pregnant
and visually reframe (inter)personal and socio-political narratives as well as struggles against struc- BE 2020, 4’36 US/JP 2019, 14’45 Hanna Una Holmquist,
tural violence and inequality. SE 2019, 5’41
BY AMANDA BARBOUR (Guest Curator) Asparagus Man on the Chair Pregunta por mí | Ask for Me
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities turns 20 this year, we’re no longer teenagers! To celebrate, we’re Suzan Pitt, Dahee Jeong, Begoña Vicario,
presenting 50 years of film history. As still images are propelled into motion, we see the technical US 1979, 18’15 SK 2014, 6’55 VE 1996, 4’12
and aesthetic evolution of feminist discourse in animation. The program explores the images we
create of ourselves and those imposed upon us. From nudity to vulnerability, those who give life and
take lives, come and see how women have mobilised the medium to articulate their tricky realities.
le Chapeau | the Hat Achill egg Cipka | Pussy Moms on Fire Raymonde ou l’évasion
Michèle Cournoyer, Gudrun Krebitz, Martina Scarpelli, Renata Gasiorowska, Joanna Rytel, vertical | Raymonde or the
CA 2000, 6’13 DE/AT 2012, 9´ FR 2018, 12’07 PL 2016, 8’ SE 2016, 13’5 vertical escape
Sarah Van Den Boom,
FR 2018, 16’31
Martina Scarpelli’s Egg, the A young woman spends the What’s it like to be massively
Real excitement is always story of a young woman’s evening alone at home. She pregnant with only four days
A dancer recalls an incident somewhat out of focus, unfor- struggle with anorexia, won decides to have a sweet solo until you're due to pop? Your Raymonde is fed up with peas,
from her childhood where tunately. All joy lies in a blind the 2019 TRICKY WOMEN/ pleasure session, but not eve- boyfriend is fucking boring and aphids, dirty panties and dig-
she was physically abused by rush and a fleeting glance. TRICKY REALITIES Audi- rything goes according to plan. you just want to have some ging in her kitchen garden. She
a visitor. This inner journey That’s why I’ve never had my ence Award and no less than fun. would much rather prefer sex,
brings back painful memories, eyes lasered. 40 other awards around the Ici, là et partout love, and the immensity of the
including the obsessive image world. Brilliant, hand-drawn Sawako Kabuki, tailor sky…
of a hat. black-and-white animation JP 2013, 2’09 Calí Dos Anjos,
creates an artificially perfect BR 2017, 9’40
world – erotic, humorous,
brutally honest and deadly
serious.
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68 minutes
Sun. 14.3., 21:00 / online available for 48 hours
two Sisters Hotzanak | Suggestion of Vermessung der distanz | III Sous tes doigts |
Caroline Leaf, For Your own Safety least Resistance Measuring the distance Marta Pajek, Under your Fingers
US/CA 1990, 10’30 Izibene Oñederra, Michelle & Uri Kranot, Susi Jirkuff, PL 2018, 12’ Marie-Christine Courtès,
ES 2013, 5’11 DK 2019, 5’3 AT 2019, 7’ FR 2014, 12'54
Peacocks on the subway, dreaming escalators, warnings from out of space and epic poems on re- Che Kasi | Who Warning From a Cosmic diminuendo
sistance. Inequalities, the climate crisis and violent constructions of normality define contemporary Khadije Zafari, Being (WFCB) Henrike Lendowski,
realities. Can we create spheres of planetary togetherness, safe and accessible for every being? AF 2020, 8’40 Seung-yeon Oh, US/D/UK 2020, 3’29
How do we move towards a good life for everyone? Creative reflections, fierce struggles and tireless KR 2020, 1’40
fights for self-expression, freedom of movement and healthy environments are challenging the past,
the present and the future.
Mex and the Animals ehiza |Hunting dieser Film heißt aus Mans miIakais karš | My Favorite War
Elisa Gleize, Begoña Vicario, rechtlichen Gründen Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen,
CA 2020, 8’22 ES 2020, 4’58 Breaking Bert | NO/LV 2020, 82’
due to legal Reasons this
Film is called Breaking Bert My Favorite War is Ilze Burkovska’s personal story of
Anne Isensee, growing up in Cold-War Latvia, at the time a republic of
Konrad Wolf Film University of the USSR.
Babelsberg We first meet Ilze as a little girl playing war at her grand-
DE 2020, 4’37 dad’s farm. Later, she is faced with frightening war drills
at school. Gradually, Ilze becomes aware of the discrepan-
Mex and the Animals could be ‘to be continued.’ The final cy between Soviet reality and the propaganda denying the
the title of a children's book. quote of Ruiz Balerdi’s film truth of that very experience. She also starts to notice the
How does a person grow up Ehiza from 1969 was a call conflicting views held by the people she loves the most.
without animals? What imagi- to action that resulted in this In her first animated film, Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen
nary world will we construct animation. A continuation re- combines animation with live-action and archival footage.
around them, and from what? ferring to Balerdi’s aesthetic, The result is a touchingand very personal film about her
The story is narrated by Mex, yet stepping away from the childhood and youth, about silence and family secrets, and
a melancholy cyborg who problematic colonial gaze and This film begins with a long ti- about the courage to find one’s own way.
wanders through virtual space perspective of his films. Ehiza tle and then quickly moves on
among images of different strives to depict the harshness in search of a good ending. In -- Winner of the Feature Film Contrechamps Award and
animals. These creatures are of contemporary global reali- between, a lot seems familiar. the French Critics Prize (Prix du jury Senscritique) at
no more than rough virtual ties: structural harassment, And yet it takes the world and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2020
reconstructions of those that violence and destruction. This its inhabitants quite seriously– -- Special Distinction Prize at the Bucheon IAFF in Korea
have long since disappeared. film was made by the collec- in a humorous manner. An -- Grand Prix / Feature Films, New Chitose Animation
tive Hauazkena Taldea that animated lesson in black and Festival
consists of Begoña Vicario and white. -- Best Animation Directress, Best Animated Film (Lat-
nine other women. vian National Film Prize)
Supported by:
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Remarkable
Ambivalent love stories, animated poems, outstanding visual expressions of movement and mo- Sina al-Qamar, Artiste Queer | intertwined. Scalp Deep cap- crisis defined by the outbreak
tion. Extraordinary beings and extravagant characters. Urgent struggles and narratives from out Sina al-Qamar, Queer Artist tures the struggles of a young of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fol-
of space. Glimpses of togetherness in times of great physical distance. How do we move between Madi Piller, CA 2020, 6’30 woman as she navigates the lowing a call, more than ninety
haunting ghosts, building homes and striving for connection? A collection of works that are all re- reactions and expectations animators worldwide con-
markable in their own way. of others after she decides to tributed to this multifaceted
commit to a new look. collage, sharing glimpses of
Utochka y Kenguru | The Invizibilii | Invisibles fight. A little panda is a silent their realities. This is the first
Duck and the Kangaroo 4inaroom, witness to it all. The Needle film out of a series of three,
Liza Skvortsova, RO 2019, 10‘ Ceylan Beyoglu, assembled and initiated by
RU 2020, 7’11 Hass-Satellit DE 2020, 9’ Kathrin Steinbacher and Emily
Mariola Brillowska, Downe.
DE 2019, 2’57
I, Candy
Candy Kugel,
Fragments exchanged over US 2018, 21’35
the course of eight weeks in
At home in her apartment, a confinement. Clips, imagery The story of a mother search-
Tender movements. A love young woman finds herself and bodies. Glimpses and ing for her missing son,based
story full of ambivalence. caught up in thoughts and People in space suits, trippy coded reflections on isolation, on true events. The‘Saturday
Chasing and being chased. memories. Layered experienc- explorations and research identities, crisis, introspection Mothers’have been demanding
Attraction and alleged incom- es of past and present distort stations in space. A music and performance. A dense and justice for their disappeared
patibilities. How can we move the tender balance of her life, video for Stereo Total’s ‘Hass- visually intense experimental loved ones and answers
together despite our different as the space surrounding Satellit’ (Hate Satellite). The portrait of the artist Sina al regarding the fate of victims Candy Kugel deconstructs
styles and paces? her reveals its mysteries and celestial subject tells us about Qamar. Developed for the of forced disappearances in a drawing she did when she
unsolved riddles. When do you lonely orbits in outer space, Parenthèse project commis- Turkey since 1995. was six years old to explore
Flow feel at home with yourself? collisions with space debris, sioned by ONF Canada. her life, touching on family
Kayla Parker, the attraction and repulsion of Flatten The Curve history, current events and
UK 2020, 1’ Glader Gök Och Mäster Katt | other planets, and sending the Scalp deep Kathrin Steinbacher, societal norms of the time.
Mellow Yellow and Pretty Pink same message over and over Naseeba Bagalaaliwo, Emily Downe, In the process she confronts
Frida Hammar, Sam Addo, again. UG 2020, 6’41 AT 2020, 5’59 anti-Semitism, channels po-
SE 2020, 5’19 litical activism, and navigates
life choices through luck and
determination (and a bit of
voodoo). Although the events
described occurred in the
A film poem created with wild past, the themes remain eerily
flowers growing along the current in today’s climate.
shore of the Laira estuary on A collection of animated mo-
the southwest coast of Britain. Mellow Yellow and Pretty Pink ments of experiencing, seeing
Petals and leaves stream past are in a kitchen drinking wine. or thinking something positive
as a haunting soundscape The drinking advances to a Hair and constructions of amidst the strange times of
ebbs and flows. party, and the party leads to a identity are often deeply confinement during the global
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4inaroom 38 Han, Byung-a 35 Orlik, Julia 7
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Addo, Sam 38 Harrison, Dominica 6 Özbilge, Imge 12
Adler, Hod 14 Hasenhütl, Lisa 20 Özbilge, Sine 12
Ahmadi, Shiva 29 Hecher, Beate 9 Pajek, Marta 33
Aiano, Eluned Zoë 11 Holmquist, Hanna Una 27 Park, Jee-youn 9
An, Huang Ping 14 Hölzl, Flora 20 Parker, Kayla 38
Arnoldner, Astrid 19 Hopf, Nina 26 Penzinger, Maximilian 19
Bagalaaliwo, Naseeba 39 Isensee, Anne 36 Piller, Madi 39
Baumane, Signe 28 Jakobi, Elisabeth 17 Pitt, Suzan 29
Behzadi, Negar Elodie 22 Jang, Nari 8 Prokopová, Marta 10
Benner, Anna 11 Janis, Charlotte 34 Radovan, Stella 20
Béranger, Sébastien 7 Jeong, Dahee 29 Raith, Shirin 20
Berezowsky, Anna 27 Jeong, Hae-ji 14 Rajič, Aleta 22
Beyoglu, Ceylan 39 Jessop, Kate 22 Rathmayr, Nicole 19
Biasini, Cléo 34 Jirkuff, Susi 33 Razkövi, Adele 35
Blasko, Michal 10 Jo, Kyeong-wook 6 Rebelo, Katelyn 27
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Bouchard, Anne-Marie 23 Kamentsky, Gina 21 Renault, Monique 28
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Braid, Sarah 23 Kargaudaite, Milda 14 Rietz, Henriette 8
Brillowska, Mariola 38 Kaufhold, Joanne 20 Rytel, Joanna 31
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Burkovska-Jacobsen, Ilze 37 Keim, Markus 9 Saadat, Sina 20
Caderas, Bianca 16 Killi, Anita 11 Salomão, Fádhia 23
Cammisar, Géraldine 9 Kim, Dam-eun 15 Samari, Leila 18
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Chenzira, Ayoka 28 Kim, Seunghee 10 Scarpelli, Martina 29, 30
Columbus, Rachel 21 Kim, Su-kyoung 6 Sebert, Vera 18
Cournoyer, Michèle 29 Koizumi, Anne 26 Sehhat, Maryam 18
Cournoyer, Michèle 30 Kopiec, Daria 13 Shalev, Ronni 14
Courtès, Marie-Christine 33 Kranot, Michelle 33 Sharabi, Alon 14
Dane, Kira 27 Kranot, Uri 33 Shayegan, Shadab 20
Danielsen, Margrethe 17 Krebitz, Gudrun 30 Skvortsova, Liza 38
de la Luz Kašik, Antonia 18 Kugel, Candy 39 Solanas, Anna 11
de Magalhaes, Hugo 15 Kutay, Zaide 9 Soost, Julia Franziska 20
Desmazières, Sandra 11 Lacourt, Marion 7 Spanlang, Anna 19
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