Underground

Henry lies at the side of the road, bleeding out from a gunshot wound. A young mother with a bizarre sense of appropriate uses his final moments as a teachable lesson for her 6 year old son.

A poetic animated portrait of scientist Nick Holmes and his work preventing extinctions on islands.

Coffee Break

Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm

Omnibus film with 13 short films by students of the HfG Ulm

A strange being loses its way in the chaos of the transportation system without finding an exit. The pathways are overwhelmed by accelerated flows that come and go like human waterfalls. The passersby, faceless, move automatically, creating a maze in which the routes seem endless. Sleepy and exhausted people merge with the surroundings, and as the bus continues on its way, the being finally manages to discover itself.

The portrait of a young bakery worker in Swabia. A vague desire for something else lurks between her sentences and the images of her everyday life.

A report on the Film Academy in Ulm, Germany

As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of live-action footage and animated scenes. A stream of (un)conscious stereotypes.

A film in three parts after Oskar Schlemmer's Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet).

A new augmented reality-game is developed that allows you to create and grow you own pet. But how far are people willing to go to live in a fantasy environment of their own creation?

A spoiled princess encounters an enigmatic talking frog in this twisted take on the classic fairytale.

This ode to standup comedy and overall antisocial, student film, headlined the 2002 film program at Long Beach.

A local man attempts to take advantage of a global crisis by forming a proper cult. Like every good cult, there is a nefarious end game.

Two friends take a high tech risk for the chance to talk to their best friend one more time.

After the Trento bombing in Italy 1943, the CG animated short film is the story is of a little girl named Mila. It focuses on the collateral damage affecting the civilian population, and especially the children.

Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite.

Organising Principles of Experience is an experimental short in which an AI model, tuned to the writings and sensibilities of Maya Deren, collaborates with the filmmaker to imagine new films. It explores memory, possession, and the digital afterlife, questioning what remains when the past becomes data and how an artist might lay claim to her absent hero.

China’s internal economic migration through the dislocated people, creating the cities of the future.