Tributes

The Movies (64’)

 

 

01. KINKY KARMA, 4’ 04’’

Germany 2013

Film by: Bianca Kennedy

Technique: Stop motion animation

Dialogues: None

 

Reality ends in the stone quarry. The oracle with the eyemouth pulls the strings, insects go hunting for little girls, a sex doll as the alter ego. A pink face. Night. Destiny makes itself disturbingly important. Everything is karma.

 

 

 

02. CONFESSIONS OF AN OBSERVING MIND, 5’ 58’’

Germany 2014

Film by: Bianca Kennedy

Technique: 2D animation

Dialogues: English

 

In the animation Confessions of an observing mind the computer is the main protagonist. For years he had to keep his mouth shut about the online behavior of his user. Now he is going to defend himself against pictures he doesnt want to see and music he doesnt want to hear. While the viewer of this animation wont see the computers owner Stella Skarsgård in person, he can observe her media consumption and becomes aware of the computers opinion about Stella.

 

 

 

03. WEIRDO’S BRAIN, 13’ 33’’

Germany 2012

Film by: Bianca Kennedy

Technique: Stop motion animation

Dialogues: None

Subtitles: English

 

Lenny finds himself in a surreal world after touching a plastic doll. With the help of strange questions hes trying to find a way through a disturbing maze of rooms. But will he ever learn from his mistakes?

 

 

 

04. NOWFOREVER, 4’ 04’’

Germany 2011

Film by: The Swan Collective (Felix Kraus)

Technique: 3D animation based on acrylic paintings

Dialogues: None

 

What lies hidden behind the nooks and crevices of painted architecture? Is there something the eyes shouldn't see? Let's have a close look.

 

 

 

05. [con_vex], 4’ 18’’

Germany 2011

Film by: The Swan Collective (Felix Kraus)

Technique: 3D animation + real life footage

Dialogues: None

 

Inner peace is the only way to cope with the daily chaos surrounding all of us. Let's go through the mirror and find the truth.

 

 

 

06. GHOSTS OF SAMSARA, 2’ 40’’

Germany 2015

Film by: The Swan Collective (Felix Kraus)

Technique: Hand-drawn animation in 3D space

Dialogues: None

 

Nirvana's just five minutes away. For the first and last time you get to witness all of your past lives: The numerous incarnations of your soul, which you have no conscious memories of. It's satisfying to see, how many centuries of disappointments, failures, dead ends and epiphanies it took, to finally get you to this point. Not much longer, and you'll break through the vicious circle of mundane absurdities.

 

 

 

07. H Y B R I D – narrated by Hans Op de Beeck, 10’ 00’’

Germany 2016

Film by: Bianca Kennedy & Felix Kraus

Technique: Miniature models

Dialogues: English

Subtitles: None

 

With good cause research focuses on the investigation of plant intelligence: Striking survival and defense strategies with complex signal and communication systems can be observed in flora as much as in fauna. What would be the consequence, if humans, animals and plants became one species? Bianca Kennedy and Felix Kraus have invented a scenario as such in their film HYBRID. Can these composite creatures benefit from their new abilities? Which conflicts will arise, if photosynthesis is refused or the eating of salad is punished for cannibalism? With the voice-over of well known Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck, the film tells the personal story of a hybrid who after several transformations reflects on inner conflicts, but also violent confrontations between humans and hybrids. The interior monologue becomes visualized in bright as well as dark images, which seem to be familiar and likewise eerie.

 

 

 

08. LIFE BETWEEN WALLS, 14’ 00’’

Germany 2014

Film by: Bianca Kennedy & Felix Kraus

Technique: Mixed media

Dialogues: None

 

Neither plant nor animal, the mushroom is unique. But this pitiful species was left out when humans, animals and plants entered a benefiting symbiosis in the year 3000. Luckily its mycelium was long enough to reach the year 989 and now it plans to modify the medieval genetic structure of all human beings, in order to become part of the great development in the future. The film Life Between Walls portrays the conflicts between a parasitic fungus-intelligence and a population, which is a mere toy to evolving mycelia.

 

 

 

09. THE LIVES BENEATH, 17’ 30’’

USA, Canada, Spain 2016

Film by: Bianca Kennedy & Felix Kraus

Technique: Mixed media

Dialogues: English

Subtitles: English

 

Bianca Kennedy and Felix Kraus depict a world in the year 4000. Everything in nature gets merged into one single mind. Plants, animals and hybrid human beings form a worldwide super-network of conciousness. The few remaining non-hybrid humans are being forced to live underwater in floating shiplike cities. Humans try to convince nature that theyre still valuable, using songs, meditation and yoga. The Lives Beneath examines the downfall of a society that refuses to live with nature in harmony. But on the other side is a self-conscious planet, which suffers from the burden of having to think for all eternity.