Kunsthochschule Kassel

At sunrise five people meet on a high rise rooftop in order to leap to their deaths.

Deprived of his individuality, a man becomes part of an alienated collective in the course of his journey.

After having a stone thrown at her head, Marla learns as a child that the opposite sex can be very hurtful. Many years later she meets and falls in love with Robert. Little does she suspect that he is the stone thrower from her past.

In a small Belarusian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja must deal with her mother's death. She takes every duty upon herself to fill the void a mother has left behind. Someone must hold the pieces together. Still, her father decides to send her to an orphanage with the promise of returning. When he fails to show up, she decides to run away and go back home instead.

"Happy End" is about a young writer who moves into an old suburban house because of his writing blockade. He wants to start a new life there. Searching for the right story for his new novel, he discovers a well secured secret in which his strange neighbors and the preceding tenant are involved. Joana, the little daughter who died in a car accident 7 years ago, seems to play an important role in this mystery. In the end, everything turns out different from what he expected.

The story of a woman who grows her dreamchild in a flower pot. But the perfect motherhood has unexpected side effects.

At first the mysterious black ship seems to be the rescue from the stormy sea. But soon the rescued castaway starts to realise what is the purpose of the expedition. And the ship follows irresistible its course to the south. Graduation film at the Kassel school of arts and design. Based loosely on the short story of the same title by A.E. Poe.

Cherry Bone is a documentary animation and tells the story of a Russian-jewish family that immigrates to Germany in the mid-90s. The director of the film starts a conversation with her parents who made the move in their forties and recalls her own version of the past events.

An entirely red claymation short about the passage of time.

He lives in a white expanse, where a monotonous balance reigns and with cheerful indifference wanders through a uniform whiteness. The exit from the enclosed space is hindered by the lack of contact…

A short animation about the aberrations and confusions of love.

Sometimes, the own body is like an alien. It bubbles and pumps and growls and works, and you can not control or even cromprehend all of it. Alone with yourself the own organs become weird.

Frankfurter Street comes alive with painted suggestions and the sounds of a garbage man, a stray cat and a lunchtime meeting.

How much do I love myself? What am I proud of? How do I present myself? How far can I go?

A girl stuck in a dismal loop where everything is firmly smoothed over, until her pent-up rage allows her to break out of her passivity. But where will it lead to? Cartoon animation meets claymation meets film.

A knight and his wife live in a small house in the middle of nowhere. Every day he fights passing knights and is rewarded by his wife with lots of love and delicious meals.

Animation short by Baoying Liu.