Blickpunkte #3 „Auf nach Woanders”

An innovative film that uses a thermal imaging camera and artificial intelligence to reinterpret our perception of the body.

Director's comment: In our short film we try to explore questions of identity and the way we see, feel and perceive our bodies.

Ella Knorz and Vivian Bausch not only look alike, they also make films together and study at the HFF Munich. They have been filming as a duo since 2020, for example behind the camera on the feature film “Para:Dies” by Elena Wolff and Julia Windischbauer, which has been nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize 2022.

Using 3D animations and documentary material, the filmmaker reconstructs memories of his childhood farm, which has long since been sold.

Director's comment: At the same time as our farm was sold, Sheila the horse died. Her death also somehow embodied my grief, which helped me to deal with the loss of my home. The farm died with the horse. During the three years of work on the film, I began to reconstruct my idea of our home, a place that no longer exists and perhaps never existed in this form. For me, home is not only the past that accumulates and accumulates in a place, but also a utopian longing for a place that does not (yet) exist. “Hoamweh Lung” is an attempt to extend my sense of home into the future. To create a space for longing in which it can exist - unrealized and fragile.

Felix Klee lives and works in Munich, where he is currently studying directing for documentary film and editing at the HFF Munich. From 2020 to 2022 he was a member of the Youth Advisory Board of the Locarno Film Festival. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied time-based media with Prof. Julian Rosefeldt and painting with Prof. Pia Fries. He studied painting with Prof. Thomas Hartmann at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg and was a guest student at the Universidad de las Artes Aguascalientes Mexico.

In “Die Würstchen”, Tim tries to integrate into a village soccer team that puts him through the wringer from the very beginning. He just doesn't seem to have the same tone of voice as the other boys. The boys also treat each other in a way that alienates Tim. Slowly, he is drawn deeper and deeper into their little power games and finally can no longer escape them.

Director's comment: “Die Würstchen” tells the story of young men who are insecure about their masculinity and are in crisis. We have approached this phenomenon in a comedic and absurd way, because in retrospect our own experiences with this topic seem similarly absurd and sometimes even funny. In the end, the film does not offer any solutions on how to break out of these recurring patterns of behavior. However, we hope to be able to offer a small change of perspective that is both entertaining and uncomfortable.

Vincent Jost, born in 1999, completed a year as an assistant director at a theater after graduating from high school in Frankfurt/Main. He then worked in Berlin as an assistant editor for television. Since 2021 he has been studying directing for cinema and television film at the HFF Munich.

Martina's summer vacation on Lake Starnberg takes a turn when she meets the young Dunja. Dunja is self-confident, non-conformist and, above all, stands by her Yugoslavian heritage - in contrast to Martina. Suddenly, Martina is forced to come to terms with a part of her identity that she has
she has suppressed all her life.

Boris Gavrilović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1996 and came to Germany when he was
to Germany at the age of twelve. After studying design, he began studying
his feature film directing studies at the HFF Munich. The short film “KAFANA NA BALKANU” had its international premiere at the Clermont-Ferrand
Film Festival and won the audience award as well as the second prize of the jury in the German competition of Interfilm Berlin 2023.