The exhibition is focused on typical and successful films produced in Germany today. German animated film artists work beyond the market, moving between the cliffs of the media business. Some of their aims contrast starkly with those of the media industry. The individual expressive forms are not just very different individually, they also show a wide spectrum of styles and techniques grown on the humus and in the jungle of contemporary art.

In terms of subject matter, we find the collective fears of the new century reflected in the German artistic animation film, we find sketches about how we might live together in the future, insights into the loneliness of the individual within the demographic reality. There are films about the search for old, archaic life patterns and films offering progress-critical parodies about the perversion of technology. The computer is still at the forefront of any production, but so are drawings, collages, photographs, montages and dolls.

The exhibition was prepared by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen – ifa (Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations) and is presented at the Match Gallery in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Ljubljana as part of the 11th International Animated Film Festival Animateka.

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AUTHORS AND FILMS PRESENTED AT THE EXHIBITION

Aike Arndt • Styx – Ein Animationsfilm über die Unterwelt (Styx – An Animated Short Film about the Underworld)
Tobias Bilgeri • You are my Hero
Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Tom Weber • 458 nm
Ina Findeisen • Mercury Bird
Gabriela Gruber • Come on Strange
Andreas Hykade • Der Kloane (The Runt)
Jochen Kuhn • Sonntag 1 (1st Sunday)
René Lange • Samsa – Hommage an Franz Kafka (Samsa – Hommage to Franz Kafka)
Gottfried Mentor, Roland Petrizza • Das Mafiahuhn (The Mafiachicken)
Daniel Nocke • Kein Platz für Gerold (No Room for Gerold)
Sebastian Peterson • Tagebuch einer perfekten Liebe (Diary of a Perfect love)
Izabela Plucinska • Jam Session, Esterhazy
Alexander Pohl • Trickster (Trickster)
Derek Roczen • Bärenbraut (Bear’s Bride)
Anna Samoylovich • Hokus Pokus (Hocus-Pocus)
Johannes Weiland • Annie & Boo