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Jury
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Schwarz
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Lila
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Pink
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Grün
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Blau
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Rot
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Jury
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Orange
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Prices
Program
Greetings
backup_festival
E-Werk Weimar
The Other Music Academy
[OMA]
18 Eckermann Buchhandlung
19 Bauhaus-Universität
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15
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124 bauhaus.films
138 backup.at.school
140 backup Opening Program
NTU Singapur
142 Special Program “Fearless”
144 Special Program “Horror and
Trash Night”
146 Taiwan.at.backup
149 Latin America.at.backup
153 Russia.at.backup
156 Special Program RFC
Madagaskar
157 backup.meets Hubert Sielecki
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hababusch
2
Jakobsplan
80 backup.at.home
Jakobsplan 1
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Karl-Haußknecht-Str. 11
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Jahnstraße 11
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Geleitstraße 4
101
3
Jahnstraße 13
102 backup.art.screen
162 bckp
bckp concert
162
bckp lounge
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106 Szenographie
165 Poster Competition
108 Weimarer Poetry Film Prize
Jury
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168 backup.team
Acknowledgments
KH11
(Karl-Haußknecht-Str 11)
118 backup.connect
160 backup.meets Zata Banks
162 Prize-giving Genius Loci
172 Imprint
PRICES
BACKUP.AT.HOME
The dice decide!
2€ | 1€ | 0€
SINGLE TICKET LICHTHAUS KINO
6€ | 4€ reduced
SINGLE TICKET OTHER MUSIC ACADEMY
3€ | 2€ reduced
DAY TICKET
12€ | 10€ reduced
FESTIVAL PASS
30€ | 25€ reduced
BCKP
GASWERK PARTY
7€
The opening ceremony, awards ceremony and
bauhaus.films as well as backup.connect are for free.
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PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, 18. MAY 16
18.00
19.00
Opening Program
NTU Singapur
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
21.00
Cinema concert: “Kids of Adelaide“
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
23.00
23.30
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Opening Festival
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Lounge Wretch
(E-Werk)
Special Program “Fearless“
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 2)
THURSDAY, 19. MAY 16
12.00
Award PINK (Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
14.00
Award LILA (Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
16.00
Award SCHWARZ
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
backup.at.home (Jakobsplan 1)
18.00
Opening Weimar Poetry Film Prize
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
19.00
Special Program
Taiwan.at.backup
(Other Music Academy)
20.00
Award ROT (Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Exhibition opening Gaswerk
(Gaswerk) 20-24 H
22.00
Award BLAU (Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
23.00
Lounge Einfach Hören
(E-Werk)
22.00
Award GRÜN
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 2)
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FRIDAY, 20. MAI 16
10.00
12.00
14.00
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Colloquium
“Ton und Voice-over im Poetryfilm“
(Eckermann Buchhandlung)“
21.00
Award LILA (Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
23.00
Award SCHWARZ
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Award BLAU (Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Exhibition (Gaswerk) 12-20 H
bauhaus.films
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
14.30 H
15.00
Podiumsgespräch “Lyrik im Film“
(Radio Lotte)
16.00
backup.at.home
(Karl-Haußknecht-Straße 11)
17.00
Special Program
backup.meets.Zata Banks
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
19.00
Prize-giving Genius Loci
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Special Program
Latin America.at.backup
(Other Music Academy)
bckp Party
Dead Disco / Dennis Calmer /
Marcus Glahn
(Gaswerk)
23.30
Special Program
“Horror and Trash Night“
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 2)
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SATURDAY, 21. MAI 16
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11.00
Award ROT
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
21.00
Prize-giving
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
12.00
Exhibition (Gaswerk) 12-20 Uhr
23.00
13.00
Award PINK
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Lounge
Miss Twinnedle
(E-Werk)
23.30
Special Program
RdFC Madagaskar
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 2)
15.00
Award GRÜN
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
16.00
backup.at.home
(Villa, Jahnstraße 13)
17.00
Weimar Poetry Film Prize
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
19.00
clip.award
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
Special Program
Russia.at.backup
(Other Music Academy)“
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SUNDAY, 22. MAI 16
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10.00
School Program
“Young Talents“
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
11.00
Filmmakers Brunch
(only with invitation)
(E-Werk)
13.00
Special Program
backup.meets.Hubert Sielecki
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
14.00
Exhibition (Gaswerk) 14 – 18 Uhr
15.00
backup.connect
Kammer 11 Filmkollektiv
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)“
16.00
backup.at.home (Open Screening)
(Hababusch, Geleitstraße 4)“
17.00
clip.award (Repetition)
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
19.00
best.of.backup
(Lichthaus Kino Saal 3)
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GREETINGS
FROM THE MAYOR OF WEIMAR
Dear friends and creators of the backup_festival,
this year’s 18th annual backup_festival with all its
initiators and student helpers is the living proof
that art, creativity and Weimar are inseparable.
True to this year’s motto people of all ages, backgrounds and lifestyles come together in our city,
FEARLESS and ready to shine a new light on the
festival every year. For the five day duration of the
festival Weimar will be a cultural melting pot of
inspiring and brave cooperations. My thanks go
to the Bauhaus University Weimar and the FILM
e.V. and all organizers. I wish them success and the
best of luck for the backup_festival 2016!
Sincerely,
Stefan Wolf
Mayor of Weimar
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GREETINGS
FROM THE RECTOR OF THE BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITÄT
WEIMAR
Eight years ago the Bauhaus Film-Institute (BFI)
was founded and integrated with the backup_festival, emphasizing the prominent position of film
in media. This year the backup_festival will be
taking place under the motto FEARLESS, which
also describes the cooperation of backup and the
film institute. Unafraid, the festival is constantly
changing while still remaining a consistent place
within the university and Weimar.
I wish you great success and good luck.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl Beucke
Rector of the Bauhaus University Weimar
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GREETINGS
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE
BAUHAUS FILM_INSTITUTE
What is the festival about? It is about students of
art and design programs and their films. Films like
these are produced every day anew.
Every day people set sail to reach new shores
risking stormy journeys aiming to seek out new
worlds. The American historian Daniel Joseph
Boorstin (1914-2004) titled his legendary trilogy
about scientific, artistic and philosophical history of humankind as follows: “The Discoverers”
(1983), “The Creators” (1992) and “The Seekers”
(1998). The backup_festival provides fearless filmmakers worldwide a chance to show their work as
a destination inbetween destinations on their film
related journey.
Therefore the motto of this year’s backup_festival
could not be more accurate.
Backup 2016. A backup for disoverers,
creators and seekers with the
unexpected in sight.
A backup in fearlessness for all of us!
Prof. Wolfgang Kissel
Director of Bauhaus Film-Institut
of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
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BACKUP_FESTIVAL
The time has come again: From the
18th to the 22nd of May 2016 we
warmly welcome artists and visitors
to the international short film festival
backup in Weimar.
Become a part of the world of films,
become a part of the world of backup. The short film festival has been
convincing for many years, has always
been characterized by its uncomplicated and fresh ways and atmosphere.
Organized by students, this festival is
full of new ideas and limitless creativity. Like every year, we do our best to
entertain you with new thematic focuses, a new program and new artists.
A lot of films were sent in and we
proudly present you the very best of
them. The films are distributed into
different award programs where they
will be eligible to win the corresponding price. Additional films can also be
seen outside the scope of the contest.
One such program is backup.at.home,
a special highlight which is presented
in the private atmosphere of student
flats. Don’t miss the opportunity
to visit the exhibition “backup.art.
screen installation and monitoring” at
the Gaswerk! Furthermore, backup.
connect gives you a chance to take
a closer look at the artist’s works
through talks and presentations by
industry professionals. At the end of
each day, we have carefully organized
bckp-parties where you can dance all
night long to the music of internationally famous DJs. Feel the enthusiasm
and experience of the art of film in a
very special way.
The backup_festival kindly welcomes
you.
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E-WERK
WEIMAR
THE OTHER MUSIC ACADEMY [OMA]
Weimar’s E-Werk is a space that has slowly grown
since 1996 to be place of culture in Weimar.
The charm of this space is partly due to the raw,
makeshift and flexible industrial structures on the
one hand and the people who creatively use these
spaces on the other. The E-Werk premises have
long since inspired artists and viewers alike thanks
to its timeless experimental workshop atmosphere.
is our vision of a new kind of institution: an
Empowerment Center. The goal of the OMA is
an inclusive society, in which a broad diversity of
people is invited to actively shape our culture and
their individual roles within it.
The OMA is committed to establish a critical, positive understanding of differences and diversity.
OMA-projects redefine the boundaries between
work, education and play. They render reasons
and opportunities to inspire people from different
backgrounds to act hand in hand.
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ECKERMANN
BUCHHANDLUNG
BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITÄT WEIMAR
Since 2004, the old Löschhaus is home to the Eckermann bookshop. The frame house is over 400
years old and thus one of the oldest in the market
district. It is located in the heart of Weimar, in the
historical district between the market square and
the Herder church and invites to rummage, read
and linger. The literary society Thuringia, which
organises the events around the Weimar Poetry
Price, is located in this house.
With faculties and areas of study such as Architecture and Urbanism, Civil Engineering, Art
and Design and Media, the Bauhaus-University
Weimar has a distinctive identity. Today the University offers an extensive spectrum of instruction
with about 40 courses of study, including fine art,
design, web design, visual communication, media
design, media studies, architecture, civil engineering, materials science, processing technology,
and environment and management. The term
»Bauhaus« stands for an eagerness to experiment,
openness, creativity, and a close link to industrial
practice and internationality.
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BACKUP.AWARD
The backup_festival 2016 in Weimar searches for short films from
students and graduates of art,
media, and design schools for its
backup.award. It is the main prize in
a competition that encourages new
approaches to the medium of the
film, offered by Sparkasse Mittelthüringen. The aim of the festival
is to support young talents in their
effort to create new cinematic perspectives.
One of the great advantages of the
festival is that besides providing the
opportunity to expand their work by
offering it to an interested public, the backup_festival presents a
chance to exchange ideas with other
film-, design- and media artists,
theorists, and producers to all those
involved. Moreover, the backup_festival offers a variety of other awards
such as the liquid.sound.club award
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supported by Liquid Sound Club
and the herzblut.award supported
by Partisan with the goal of supporting young filmmakers.
Upon arrival newcomers and those
interested can reflect and deepen
their skills by taking part in a combination of workshops and panel
discussions with incumbents of the
media industry.
This year the festival will be relaunching an audience choice award:
the backup.collaboration.award. By
its funding alone this award shows
the importance of networking and
that big goals are easier to achieve as
a team, especially if you are working in media. Through a successful
crowdfunding campaign on Vision
Bakery we were able to finance this
award.
JURY
Benedikt Otto was an employee of the Saarland broadcasting company. After a transfer
to the MDR he has been product manager for
television. As chief editor for the student film
magazine Unicato he worked closely with middle
German colleges/university. Benedikt Otto,
moreover, taught at universities in Weimar, Ilmenau and Erfurt.
Since the opening ceremony of the BFI in 2008
Benedikt Otto has been an exceptional member
of the BFI.
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Sylke Gottlebe
was born in 1964. From 1997 to 2001, she has been
involved in several film projects such as FILMFEST DRESDEN or Filmnächte am Elbufer. In
May 2002 Sylke Gottlebe started organizing and
leading the new Bundesverband Deutscher Kurzfilm. She directed this organization until 2013. She
has been a member of the administrative council
of the ‘Filmförderungsanstalt’ (FFA) since 2004
and she is also part of the supervisory board at
‘German Films’. From 2008 to 2013, Sylke Gottlebe
was a member of the jury of the Bundesregierung
für Kultur und Medien (BKM). She worked for
advisory councils of several cultural organisations
in Saxony as well.
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Laura Engelhardt (born 1988 in Bremen) is a
filmmaker and artist. She studied architecture and
art at central saint martin’s college in London and
at the university and art academy in Stuttgart.
Since 2014 she studies territorial strategy at the art
academy Berlin Weißensee and creates a number
of films.
In her cinematographic works she links a documentary-ethnographical with an experimental approach with an focus on the constructed
environment, the construction of reality, image
productions and balances of power.
Her films were shown on several national and
international festivals and received various awards.
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1. Tears in Rain
02:17
2015
Jeroen Cluckers
B
KASK
A visual poem, trying to capture the poetics of a cinematic rain shower into
the structure of its images. ‘Tears in Rain’ combines the techniques of datamoshing and slitscanning, injecting noise into the images of the 1982 science
fiction classic ‘Blade Runner’ mutating them into a new visual poem.
SCHWARZ
2. Lineage
03:20
2015
Olga van den Brandt
NL
Avans University of
Applied Sciences Breda
In a world where people are built out of wires everyone is connected to those
they care for. A young child gets stuck when its parents drift apart.
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3. Miles to Go
Before I Sleep
13:18
2015
Hanna Hovitie
FIN
Metropolia University of
Applied Sciences
A young Congolese woman shares her story of becoming a victim of child
trafficking and being thrown into a whirlwind between continents.
4. Anxeyety
05:02
2015
Arden Barlow
US
SMFA School Boston
Different people from various cultural backgrounds, gender identities, ages,
professions, and levels of social anxiety disorder are interviewed about their
thoughts, fears and experiences concerning eye contact.
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5. my sardasht
03:10
2014
Ziba Arzhang
IRN
Saba Cultural and Artistic
Institute Tehran
While weaving a carpet, Kajal shares the story of losing her family during the
chemical bombings on Iran.
6. Armenian Papers
06:33
2015
Ornella Macchia
B
École Supérieure des
Arts Appliqués et du
Textile Roubaix
At the market of Yerevan a merchant invites the viewer to taste his fruits and
listen to his story. Accompanied by birds, the viewer discovers the life of this
man full of the colours of Armenia.
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7. Atlas of the
Wounded Buildings
13:10
2016
Thadeusz Tischbein
D
HBK Braunschweig
9. This Is Where
Wool Comes From
07:15
2015
J. Louise Makary
US
Temple University
In a big city bullet holes in walls and houses tell stories of destruction if one
only takes a close enough look.
The choreographic vocabulary of a sheep being sheared provides the foundation for this loose fictional narrative that confuses the roles of dominance,
empathy, and passivity.
8. meat & greed
03:44
2015
Sophie Bellmann
A
Die Graphische
10. Idee fixe
05:35
2015
Mikhail Gorobchuk
R
Russian State Institute
of Cinematography
Ein Körper dient den Animationen als Projektionsfläche.
This clay animation is a parable which reminds us that not every goal deserves our attention, energy and time.
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11. Putain
05:15
2015
Cypria Donato
B
La Cambre
A journey through the complex sensations experienced by six female characters in their daily life as prostitutes and the ways their bodies are involved and
exposed.
12. Tränen trocknen
03:27
2015
Nico Schloß
D
Universität Flensburg
Tina and Theo are caught between wet and dry, cold and warm, blue and red,
between sadness and anger, hope and feelings of freedom.
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1. Vogel frei
01:11
2014
Victoria Wandsleb, Paula Kemink
D
Hochschule Wismar
A young woman grows wings and the world around her changes.
LILA
2. WHAT WEEE ARE
02:12
2015
Alessandra Turcato, Alessio De Marchi
ITA
Università di Torino
‘WHAT WEEE ARE’ is an ongoing, multifaceted socio-cultural multimedia
project searching the deeper meanings of the world. A quest through waste
and feelings and the richness of the earth, trying to untangle the intricacy of
human kind: the so called society.
3. Sonder During End Times
05:50
2015
Stephanie Delazeri
US
California Institute of the Arts
A kleptomaniac roams a shopping mall, encountering people and thoughts.
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4. Panodraama
11:31
2015
Valentine Siboni
F
Haute Ecole des Arts
du Rhin Strasbourg
6. Die Brücke /
The Bridge
04:00
2015
Meike Redeker
D
HBK Braunschweig
The audience is carried away on a boat. On their journey they encounter different explorers and question them about how they are planning to get to the
unreachable South Pole. PANODRAAMA links Antarctica’s quest metaphor
with another: the quest of transmitting an idea to an audience. In the video,
the artist uses various ways of interacting with cameras in a space, seeking for
the proper view.
Who once outgrew their children shoes will never be able to walk in them
again. An constricting hunt in waddling gait in search of help - before the ice
is melting.
5. Postcolonialism
in 30m²
14:00
2015
Clara Winter,
Miguel Ferráez
E
Kunsthochschule Kassel
7. Take me to
Pemberley
02:00
2015
Daniela Zahlner
A
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
She can’t stand the guilt of being European, so she decides to give herself
to a person from the third-world and serve him. She starts to set up some
well-intentioned regulations to his household, trying to convince him to live
his life in a better way, developing hygienic, environmental and economical
standards.
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Mr. Darcy: synonym for the romantic hero since 1813. The character from
Jane Austen‘s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had three major movie impersonators– 1940, 1995, 2005– that not only inscribe him in pop culture, but also
illustrate our capitalist notions of love and desire, gender duality and a wish to
escape reality back to a pre-industrialized, pre-virtualized world.
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8. The Three Spirits
06:00
2015
Olga Guse
D
University of Saratov
11. DVLottery
03:13
2015
Mohsen Zare
IRN
Sooreh Art University Tehran
Throughout his life, man has three basic feelings: fear, pride and passion.
During the annual online lotteries a lot of Iranians try to win a US green card.
An eternal willingness for leaving, a perpetual passion for fleeing from home.
Transformed into virtual beings, and melting into new and strange sceneries
of dissolving “estrangement”- turning into a picture and never turning back.
9. Celebrities Aren‘t People
(Magnificent Kaaboom!!! 2)
09:25
2015
Zachary Whitmore
US
La Grande, Oregon
‘Celebrities Aren’t People’ provides a polite social commentary and a vaguely erotic snapshot of popular culture in modern day America, all the while
maintaining a message, whatever that may be.
10. Summer 2K15
03:00
2015
Henry Chaisson
US
Brown University
Providence
12. Sleepwalkers
01:38
2015
Altea Claveras
GB
University for the
Creative Arts Farnham
7.125 billion people live on Earth. How many of us are truly awake? A film
about doing exactly what you’re told.
What did you acutally do last summer? ‘Summer 2k15’ presents a panoramic
view on the American summer’15-picture represented in the media.
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13. iNTERFACE
02:28
2015
Mel Hsieh
US
Central Saint Martins
College of Art and
Design London
This animated film represents the idea that digital media is like a transparent,
thin layer of skin that shields our self-perception, and also the ability to transform and change. The message is clear: “the best interface is no interface”.
2016
14. Holz Ist - Utopia Planitia
03:30
2014
Wilm Beckhoff, Moritz Koch, Luis Kucharski, Johannes Walenta
D
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
What happens if we create our own universe and dive in?
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1. Ratio
02:04
2014
Murat Sayginer
TRK
Lycée Francais Charles
De Gaulle Ankara
A sphere made of mirrors fuses with self-willed rocks to form a bust.
BACKUP.AWARD
PINK
2. R.P.M. 2
02:49
2014
Ryan Fox
US
University of Dayton
A kaleidoscopic video experiment utilizing the rotations of a car tire.
3. Ginny
05:00
2015
Susi Jirkuff
A
Hochschule für
Gestaltung Linz
The sharply outlined cement monsters of Ginny’s universe stand in close
proximity, yet they remain at a distance that invites thoughts of transcending
social status.
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4. Splinters
06:43
2015
Jerker Beckman
FIN
Stockholm University
6. Those Drawn Alive
06:20
2014
Jukka-Pekka Jalovaara
FIN
Academy of Fine Arts,
Helsinki
A poetic visual musing on urban life.
5. Cumulus
11:36
2015
Hector Delgado
PER
Centro de la Imagen Lima
Accumulation of tangible or intangible things, especially when superimposed
on others in space, in time or in oneself. Seeing the day to day through the
eyes of a child. A video gaming enthusiastic child living outside the city with
his family. After a journey into the woods he will witness an unprecedented
event. Will this be a dream or an event taking him into a new direction?
Autumn provokes a stinky mood. This is caused by the loss of light. Last
summer the radio played a tune called “ The House of the Rising Sun “. And
suddenly there was, on a wintery road, in very low light an impossible opponent - Lee Van Cleef.
7. The Voyage
11:03
2015
BJ Formento
US
Academy of Arts
University of California
Displacement, cultural migration and memory are central to the theme of this
poetic short film. As reality weighs heavily on our conscience, stirred up by
the inundation of horrific narratives and footage. Refugees abandoning the
ills of their long loved countries delving into the brutality of the unknown.
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8. Mourning
03:30
2016
Franka Sachse
D
Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar
A little boat sailing across the ocean- lonely and lost. Humans end in smoke,
die and are blown away - and nothing happens: the boat keeps sailing lost on
the ocean. Two people reach the mainland.
9. POP
04:30
2015
Henry Bullen
AU
RMITUniversity Melbourne
‘POP’ is a psychedelic story of an old man’s ghost, who completely ignores
other’s discomfort in order to escape from the physical realm. Through
possessing both his old folks home nurse and a telekinetic spirit bounty
hunter, Gramps’ ghost searches for a device which will transport him into a
new dimension.
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10. Salted delicacy
03:40
2015
Laura Nicolas
B
La Cambre
A delicious defense in favor of the booger. It might even convince the most
disgusted ones.
11. Eddy ist ein
Champion
01:36
2014
Daniel von Bothmer
D
Kunsthochschule Kassel
The animated shortfilm tells the odd story of a night in the life of Eddie aka.
“The big German stone block”. He wins a fight, gets a blowjob of a prostitute
and gets recognition of his buddy.
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12. Comme il faut
02:49
2015
Michelle Molad-Or
ISR
Israel Animation College
Lucy is married to a conservative and patriarchal man who was chosen for
her. She lives a suppressed and unhappy life, consisting solely of fulfilling her
duties as wife. At a turning point she decided to break out of her cage and
pursue a new life.
14. Lalutte
01:43
2015
Hong Gah Yain
SIN
LASALLE
College of the Arts
During a trapeze number, two acrobats get into a fight. Accompanied by the
well known ‘Hungarian Dance No. 5’ by Johannes Brahms, the dispute is
displayed in a humorous way.
13. TripBook
02:22
2014
Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
F
Duperré Art School Paris
A little pirate is catapulted out of a little flip book universe into the real
world. Immediately upon arrival he is chased by a giant hand. When the
pirate reaches the end of a wall he has nowhere to go so he decides to jump.
Can he escape?
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1. Vorort (Suburb)
08:05
2015
Laura Engelhardt
D
Weißensee
Kunsthochschule Berlin
BACKUP.AWARD
GRÜN
In the film ‘Vorort’ (Suburb) the filmmaker portrays her own hometown
which has changed over time from a rural village to an accumulation of new
housing settlements. Open fields have to make way for new standardized
houses. Big billboards advertising new construction projects keep on emerging. It is a film about childhood memories, the increasing urban sprawl and
the disappearance of the real.
2. Kammermusik
07:22
2015
Katharina Blanken
D
Robert Schumann
Hochschule Düsseldorf
‘Kammermusik’ is an audiovisual building sound portrait which creates
an interplay of the parallel worlds of music, architecture and filmmaking.
Musicians practice at night, inside the building of their music school. Seen
from the outside the windows light up every time they play their instruments
creating a visual mosaic of light and shadow.
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3. Nation without ink
09:45
2015
Adam WIradi Arif
INO
Academy of Communication,
Bina Sarana Informatika Cengkareng
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5. Spazio-Tempo:
White Hole
07:50
2014
Roberto D‘Alessandro
F
University of the
Creative Arts Canterbury
A young man is on the search for a job. Hoping to succeed this time he makes
his way to another job interview. But all his hopes are destroyed again. His
destiny does not lose hold of him. In Indonesia work is the only key to survive
- in a nation which does not give securities on paper. A nation without ink.
A journey in which pixels, shapes and colours obey to a quantic order, statistically random, revealing an almost alien landscape. Shadows and lights fight in
order to create visual probabilities.
4. The old man
and the Bird
07:04
2015
Dennis Stein-Schomburg
D
Kunsthochschule Kassel
6. In The Waves
05:30
2015
Ying-Fang Shen
US
Virginia Commonwealth
University
An old man lives alone in a solitary hut in the forest. The winter is so cold
that he can barely move his limbs. He sits calmly beside the window when a
bird flies against it and falls down to the ground. Briefly he pauses for thought
but then he fights his way outside. Out in the deep snow his strength begins
to fail but as he takes the little bird in his hands everything changes. New life
returns to the old man. Or is this just one last memory?
This is an animation film that narrates the beginning of a living organism
through the perspective of a microscope.
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7. Mila Fog
11:00
2015
Marta Prokopová
SLO
Academy of Performing
Arts Bratislava
Inspired by her own life the filmmaker of the animation movie reflects the
view and fears of young people on today’s life. Frustrated of living in a stereotypical society and in search of a place where they belong. The globalized
world opens infinite opportunities, but at the same time it creates a feeling of
loneliness and emptiness.
9. Feuer Wasser Erde Luft und Zeit
03:51
2015
Maria Reinhardt-Szyba
D
Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
In a slightly surreal scenery, two figures move through time, one forward and
the other backward. Nevertheless, they communicate with each other and
swap things. Ash turns to paper, water flows upwards. This all happens in a
way that does not always allow the viewer keep track of time.
8. Circle
11:17
2015
Alexander Heringer
D
Hochschule der
Medien Stuttgart
The film tells the story of a young woman who after experiencing a tragic loss
tries to escape the cruel truth of the present by losing herself in seemingly
perfect memories of the past. A constant inner struggle emerges between past
and present, distorting her perception of reality.
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1.Vehicles
09:40
2015
Matthew Schoen
CDN
Montreal Music
Conservatory
BACKUP.AWARD
‘Vehicles’ is a video and sound work in which an imagined structure is revealed from its smallest components to the larger and more complex entities
they compose. The accompanying music and sound reinforce a narrative
ranging from a place of intimacy to a growing vastness, while echoing the visual content of the video. This work is loosely inspired by the essay ‘Vehicles’
written by the cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg.
BLAU
2. Origine(s)
04:00
2015
Damien Molineaux
F/CH
A man from Quebec walks along a beach of Normandy. In the background
the rhythmic sounds of a cajon combine with the noise of the ocean. A film
about discovering oneself and the question of a man’s origin.
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3. GIRL PLAYING
05:48
2015
Nellberth Córdova
VEN
Universidad de Los Andes,
Mérida-Venezuela
Several sequences lay next to and on top of each other and show a scene on
the beach from diverse angles.
4. BAKHYT
14:35
2015
Ruslan Bekshenov, Aleksandr Amulin
RUS
Ural Federal University Ekaterinburg
In an empty factory building Bakhyt and Samira meet day in, day out since
their job is to keep everything clean. But Bakhyt soon realizes that he wants
a completely different life. When he finally takes up the courage to come in
contact with Samira, she reacts unapproachable. But according to the laws of
micro- and macrocosm the characters move toward each other.
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5. My Queen
08:00
2015
Tim Verhaegen
B
The School Of Arts Ghent
A house has been unoccupied for years. For the director it was a trove of
memories. Change is coming and he captured its last moments on film.
7. copy complete
08:23
2015
Maria Auerbach
D
Hochschule für Graphik
& Buchkunst Leipzig
The experimental film ‘copy complete’ deals with the depiction of the computer in the cinema of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. A collage is made of sequences
of pre-millennial cinema films and takes the viewer along on a journey to the
beginnings of the digital era.
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8. Resolve
to be Ready
07:25
2015
Eugene Sun Park
US
University of Pennsylvania
Based on a public performance by artists Sara Zalek and Ginger Krebs this
film invites the viewer into a bustling public space filled with commuters. The
space becomes subtly charged by the presence of a mysterious person in black
who lurks around and then drops an unmarked black duffle bag on the sidewalk in plain view. What is the appropriate reaction? Alarm? Fear? Humor?
9. PLASTIC
PARADISE
02:27
2015
Lotte Mueller
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The experimental film plays with the inside and outside of the human body.
Certain sounds amplify certain sensations that cannot be seen from the outside.
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10. BLAU
03:08
2015
Natalia Jobe
A
Kunstuniverität Linz
A woman uses a swimming pool without water in the same way as if it was
filled. Through this an absurd situation is created, which puts the desolate
room into a new context.
11. Nadir
05:06
2015
Lorène Yavo
B
La Cambre
A traveller starts a journey into a dark and dangerous underwater world. After all, he manages to escape from the risks by becoming a part of the marine
surrounding.
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12. Fay
02:50
2015
Sabine Volkert
D
Augsburg University of
Applied Sciences
Sound by sound and frame by frame abstract audiovisual worlds are created.
They tell of a journey of self-discovery, acceptance and growth.
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1. Descent
04:55
2015
Antoine Marc, Drew Cox
GB
Université Lumière Lyon
A man crawls to his death. Spilling out the essence of life, he envisions vivid
memories to accompany his decline. The short film was filmed in the iconic
location of the feature film ‘The King’s Speech’.
BACKUP.AWARD
ROT
2. Lucidity
04:23
2016
Michael Janke
CDN
Southern Alberta
Institute of Technology
A young woman lost in her subconscious is searching through her memories
looking for something familiar to wake her up and bring her home.
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3. Fische
15:14
2015
Sarah Schreier
D
Bauhaus - Universität Weimar
The film tells the story of a 16-year-old girl looking for comfort and safety.
4. The Betrayal
05:40
2015
Susan Young
GB
Royal College of Art London
A disturbing film about a doctor-patient relationship that goes catastrophically wrong. Legal texts and medical records interwoven with pulsing pills tell a
story of addictive, emotional enmeshment.
5. Beat in the Forest
05:21
2014
Adi Goral
ISR
Tel-Hai Academic College Israel
6. To the Stranger
who Meets Me
in the Darkness
04:05
2015
Po-Yen Wang
CHN
Taipei National
University of the Arts
The film is composed of a series of settings that reflect the suppressed and
mysterious emotional states of male homosexuals. These dark and private
settings seem to offer a sense of security, providing a feeling of belonging, a
sense of home to those male homosexuals that are rejected by the heteronormative society.
7. Waelder - In
04:43
2015
Johannes Plank
D
Universität der Künste
Berlin
The sound of the duo WÆLDER is ambient, Lo-Fi electronics and post-dubstep. The sound is heavy and gloomy. The video for ‘In’ supports this impression. A little dark, a little bit weird, but also very interesting
An old and dedicated forest ranger, living in a magical heart-beating forest,
fights against dark forces to keep it alive, until his last breath.
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8. TIMIDSUCTION
04:20
2015
Kadesha Drija
GB
University of Westminster
London
10. In Other Words
05:45
2015
Tal Kantor
ISR
Bezalel Academy of Arts
and Design Jerusalem
‘TIMIDSUCTION’ is a 2D, hand-drawn animation short tackling everyday
experiences of unhappy couples. Adopting a darkly comical tone, it depicts a
growing domestic malaise within an ageing relationship.
A man recalls a moment of lost opportunity to communicate with his daughter. Their brief meeting after years undermines his world and renders it
meaningless.
9. I ♥ Jesse Eisenberg
07:00
2015
Felix Leffrank
D
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
The filmmaker tells the actor Jesse Eisenberg, hero of the movie ‘The Social
Network’, about his researches on acting and authenticity.
11. Ruben Leaves
05:00
2015
Frederic Siegel
CH
Hochschule Luzern - Design & Kunst
On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by imaginations caused by his obsessive compulsive disorder.
12. Rosso Papavero
05:15
2015
Martin Smatana
SLO
Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava
Once upon a starry night, a small boy with a head full of fantasies witnesses
dreamlike circus performances.
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CLIP.AWARD
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The groundbreaking character of music videos
and music television on contemporary artwork
and aesthetics even as far as Hollywood cinema
dates back to the 1980`s. However and despite of
all discussions about its end, the backup_festival
still regards the music video format as a vital and
popular field of experimentation for the continuation of film. The clip.award offers a forum with
this idea in mind. We are looking for music videos
which create unique combinations of music and
motion picture through the employment of different media techniques. The aim is to make pictures
audible and sounds visible in a special way.
The winning video will receive the “backup.liquid.
sound.club.award”, offered by the “Liquid Sound
Club”.
“Liquid Sound Club” features talented artists
playing contemporary electronic & ambient music
above & under water. Come to “Liquid Sound
Club” every first saturday of the month, 9pm until
midnight, at the Toskana Therme Spa venues in
Bad Sulza, Bad Schandau and Bad Orb.
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JURY
Daniel Pfeiffer was born in Mainz in 1968. He
studied economics, theater and film studies and
political science. From 1992 to 1995 he additionally completed an apprenticeship in drama and
ballet and graduated from the Fachhochschule
für Gestaltung Mainz as Dipl. Mediendesginer in
2004. Since then he has been working as a director for documentaries and other TV programs.
Daniel Pfeiffer is currently working on a new
short film project as well as on a documentary for
the German and French channel ‘arte’ and on a
portrait of Komet-Bernard. Daniel Pfeiffer lives in
Wiesbaden.
Claudia Köcher was born in Weimar in 1984.
She completed an apprenticeship as graphic design
assistant and then started working for several
theaters such as the Deutsches National Theater.
Claudia Köcher was a fashion stylist at the Musik
Fernsehen until 2008, then she founded her own
label ‘Die Zwillingsnadeln’. She now works for music bands and artists as well as for film, photo and
theater productions. Besides that she occasionally
puts on records for R&B events.
Kai Stänicke was born in 1986 in
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
While studying film and TV production
in Dortmund, he directed his first short
films. After receiving his diploma, Kai
Stänicke worked for X Filme Creative
Pool in Berlin and on set of various
productions as assistant director and set
manager. Since 2011, Kai Stänicke has
been producing and directing films and
music videos in Berlin.
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CLIP.AWARD ORANGE
1. The Great Filter
04:55
2015
Dan Bowhers
US
Clark University Worcester
Various patterns and shapes from nature and the universe combine to form
unique images. A seemingly harmless play of contrasts between colorful,
almost dazzling sequences and dark black-and-white scenes eventually turns
into the apocalypse. In the middle of it all: silhouettes of two men who are
part of this unreal world.
2. Autogenic
03:45
2014
H. Prakash
SIN
Nanyang Technology
University Singapore
3. Sizarr Scooter Accident
05:06
2015
Philipp Käßbohrer
D
Kunsthochschule für
Medien Köln
„Solitude is bad company, it had me mislead“ – One night, one action, one
consequence. The song „Scooter Accident“ and its accompanying video stay
true to the title and demonstrate how solitude, frustration and violence are
not necessarily the best ingredients for a rosy future.
4. Leo Köppen - Low
03:12
2015
Leo Köppen
D
Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar
An experimental video with whitish, blurred images, mainly focusing on the
singer: a tall, half-naked man, whose face and crouched body appear alternately. The fluttering images and the slow, drowsy rhythm of the music gives
the viewer a feeling of numbness.
From the void of space, a cube structure comes to life.
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5. N.I.K
03:43
2015
André Santos
P
Escola de Tecnologias
Inovação e Criaçã
7. Paradox
03:38
2015
Serghei Chiviriga
RUM
Bucharest National
University of Arts
The heart of a love song is found in the embrace of loss, in the masochist
clinging to something we no longer have, in the preciousness of memory
lined with grace and anger. Grief therapy is just the exorcism of the other. Unlike any other, Romeu Runa embodies borderline states of existence, extends
that feeling to a point of winning life back. Blending beauty and discomfort
into a poem that floats in space.
A singer is woken up by the sound of music. He proceeds to follow a trail
which leads him through different places. The trail ends with a DJ who has
previously been shown. An unreal room is presented in black and white.
6. Koniec pribehov
04:50
2015
Andrej Kolencik
SLO
Academy of Performing
Arts Bratislava
8. Imaginary Pilot
04:10
2015
Alexey Tomilov
RUS
Moscow Architectural
Institute
Koniec pribehov - the end of history. Gloomy black-and-white landscapes in
the snow, bare trees, smoke rises. The atmosphere is dismal and mysterious.
Who is hiding in the dark behind the trees? The prisoners get killed on a
clearing. One of them can escape and the viewer immerses in his illusions.
Contact with people is dangerous, but avoiding it, one gets into situations
even more awful: the people around start seeming ugly, and beauty isn’t visible anymore.
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9. Leo Kinsky La Caresse
02:06
2014
Matthias Neumayer
A
SAE Institut Wien
Most people are familiar with the ups and downs of a relationship. Deep
affection and overwhelming happiness often lead to frustration and disappointment. Passion turns into everyday life, love turns into hatred. The music
video ‘La Caresse’ illustrates the contrast of these extremes through the gentle
poetry of a french chanson and the aesthetics of modern day film noir.
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11. Der Springer
03:50
2015
Henning Frederik Malz
D
KHM Köln
Intro. Rhythmic sequence of images. Guided by the music a journey through
a sky of different colors and shapes begins. Some artifical, some natural. Some
still, some animated. Clouds. Water. Rays of light. A pegasus. Eagerly making
his way through the air. An angel appears. The journey continues.
10. BODY&SOUND
04:30
2015
Alberto Nacci
ITA
Academies of Fine Arts
Bergamo and Brescia
12. The World
Welcomes Fame
06:04
2015
Alexis Burlat
B
La Cambre
The music video by Alberto Nacci is not just a demonstration of the italian
musician Sergio Arturo Calonego playing his acoustic guitar, but rather an
intimate and sensual representation of the relationship between the musician
and his instrument.
This film takes the viewer on a trip to a geometric universe made up of primary colors. A kind of virtual reality is established through the images and
music, which is reminiscent of classic computer games. Just like entering
the universe the viewer leave it through a single cube.
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13. Baggage Man
04:30
2016
Matthias Gerding,
Dennis Colquhoun
D
KHM Köln
The viewer flies through a motionless world, whose objects are made of small
white dots. He flies past and through trees, houses and people. The images are
connected with each other and through the immersion into this environment
the viewer gains small insights into dramatic experiences of different people.
15. Kristoffer and the Harbour Heads - When You Say Stay
05:33
2016
David Campesino, Sebastian Linda
SE
Technische Universität Dresden
A young girl living in a forest diving to a city with her zebra. There, she
discovers abandonned streets, walls full of graffitis and lonely, sad-looking
people. Will the girl succeed in waking them up from their lethargic state?
14. Megaloh Regenmacher
03:31
2016
Till Krücken
D
Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar
Megaloh makes it rain for his family, for the people who need him, for the
people who believe in love and in music.
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BACKUP.AT.HOME
am Donnerstag, 19.05.2016
Jakobsplan 1,
99423 Weimar
1. 1 - 0
01:00
2014
Saman Hosseinpuor
IRN
Art University of Tehran
A little boy has to sit in a chair, keep his head still and get a haircut. On the
TV right next to him a soccer game is broadcasted. He quickly forgets that he
is sitting in a barbershop.
Backup.at.home brings a selection of short films
into the living rooms of Weimar. On the festival
days, shared flats in Weimar open their doors to
festival guests starting at 4:00 p.m. It’s not about
having an ordinary DVD night in a living room
atmosphere, but about reflecting on the questions
that are brought up by the challenges of modern
day film reception: Can films that are produced
for the big screen also work outside the cinema?
While they relax on the sofa, the viewers decide
which filmmaker will take home the „backup.
herzblut.award“ offered by Partisan Vodka. In this
program you will discover unusual projection
screens, decorations and culinary delights.
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2. What if?
02:39
2014
Yentl de Werdt
IND
P.A.R.T.S school for
contemporary dance Brussels
This short movie is about innocent communication and body language.
The story focuses on slum kids who are hearing impaired since their birth.
Together, they share a little part filled with aspiration, hope and perseverance
which pierces them from their eyes to their fingertips.
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3. The one who
tamed clouds
04:30
2015
Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
F
École Duperré Paris
At the top of a canyon the old Indian ‘Flying Shadow’ teaches the young
Nayati the ancient art of smoke signals. This is a meeting of two very different
personalities. The boy’s hyperactivity upsets the calm of the old shaman soon
causing disaster.
4. The boy in the
Whale Suit
08:16
2014
Marie Toh
SIN
LASALLE College of
the Arts Singapore
We all see other people from our own perspective. Sometimes we see something in the other person that no one else seems to notice. Daiyu spends her
days playing with her toy Godzilla on a balcony. Soon the boy in the whale
suit who walks past her flat every day catches her attention. One day, she
decides to follow the strange boy to uncover his identity and discovers the
meaning of friendship.
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5. Cradle
04:48
2015
Zanyar Lotfi
IRN
Art University of Tehran
Technically the little girl simply just wants to do her homework. But when
grandpa’s snores keep her little sibling from sleeping and it cries, things get a
bit more complicated. But aren’t we all kind of the same while sleeping? She
has a good idea!
6. Phobia
02:08
2015
Tymur Markunin
CDN
Sheridan College
Ontario
The story is about a little boy with a vivid imagination, which grants him
access to every world he can dream of. It just shouldn’t start raining.
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7. Mon Chéri
11:03
2015
Steve Bache
D
AIK Dresden
On a hot summer‘s day, lonely Franklin is invited to play with other kids for
the first time since moving to a new village. He counts, the others hide - when
he finds them they are observing his mom threw his telescope. Franklin
defends his mother and she is proud of her son, but things take a drastic turn.
Once again Franklin finds himself in situation he shouldn’t be in.
8. Hassan in
Wonderland
08:28
2014
Ali Kareem Obaid
IRQ
Academy of
Fine Arts Baghdad
What do children do if the world around them is corrupted by violence, giving them nothing to hold on to? Hassan and his friends play on a scrap yard.
They shoot each other with weapons they find laying around - like adults in
real life. Suddenly, real shots ring out.
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9. Dyab
20:00
2016
Mazin M. Sherabayani
IRQ
Birkbeck University,
London
Dyab is a 12 year old yazidi boy. Together with his eight siblings and his parents he lives in a refugee camp in Arbat, Iraq. His family fled from the attacks
by the IS in the Sinjar mountains. Dyab makes films and dreams of telling the
whole world his and other refugee’s stories.
10. Copper wire
10:05
2015
Hasan Najmabadi
IRN
Iran University Of
Science & Technology
A boy collects wires to sell them. He urgently needs the money to rent DVDs.
In order to get them he needs to overcome certain obstacles. All for films that
captivate and fascinate him, they take him away to another world.
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11. The Predators
of Transylvania
06:25
2014
Julia Kolenakova
SLO
Academy of
Fine Arts Bratislava
Kids are followed by a werewolf. They try to escape from its large, sharp fangs
by climbing a tree. The first rays of sun reveals that nothing is as it seems. It
is worth to mention the fact that the director Julia Kolenakova is deaf and the
music was composed by visually impaired Ondrej Rosik.
12. Soleils Welt
12:00
2015
Melissa Rothmann
A
FH Salzburg
Soleil lives alone in a city with tall, jumping people until one day she meets a
little green being.
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Friday, 20.05.2016
Karl-Haußknecht-Straße 11,
99423 Weimar
1. White Collar
07:51
2016
Natalia Lampropoulou
GRE
Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki
In a cruel, but not so unlikely version of today’s society, citizens are willing to
do everything for a job.
2. They will all die in space
14:56
2015
Javier Chillon
E
Complutense University
of Madrid
Two men are on a spaceship and awake a technician from his artificial sleep.
He has to solve problems on the machine. It seems as if all passengers are in
great danger. Mistrust spreads: what are the men hiding?
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3. Finger
06:37
2015
Yuri Karabak
UKR
National University
Karpenko-Kary
Kirill, a factory lathe operator, arrives to work suffering from a terrible hangover and looks for the hair of the dog. As he doesn’t succeed in his enterprise,
Kirill uses an industrial accident in his favor.
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5. Sweet, Loving,
Caring
05:42
2015
Emma Healy
IR
Limerick School of
Art and Design
This work is derived from stories of women who have suffered from domestic
violence. Locked in a cupboard for hours, a woman is not allowed to use the
bathroom. She has to pee in cups and dump them into the laundry sink.
4. Bystander Effect
09:32
2015
Matthias Neumayer
A
SAE Institut Wien
6. B.
15:00
2015
Kai Stänicke
D
FH Dortmund
A man is on the look-out for a victim. Within a couple of minutes, he chooses
a young woman. He hunts, stabs and rapes her. Nobody helps and he does it
only for the applause.
Between a cold relationship with K. and her feelings for another woman, shy
and insecure B. is heading for a disaster. For too long she has suppressed her
desire and lived a lie. But is it really too late for B. to follow her heart?
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7. Muschi Chroniken
04:21
2015
Justyna Grzybowska
D
Berlin Technical
Academy of Arts
9. Till jail do us apart
13:24
2015
Joserro and
Mariana Emmanuelli
PRI
University of Puerto Rico
Two girls meet each other in a restaurant. When the two sit together one girl
receives the image of a penis from one of her chat admirer on her smartphone. This and the clumsy gesture of the waiter, who shamelessly grabs his
crotch in front of both girls, makes them wonder, what they would do if they
had a penis and how it would be like.
Their love and deep religious belief, drive Joseph and Liza to kidnap a priest
to marry them before they are found and taken in by the police.
8. Kosherland
16:07
2013
Pyotr Magnus
LETT
KHM Köln
10. Guantanamo Baby
03:00
2015
Dieter Priming
D
University of Applied
Sciences Salzburg, Austria
Somewhere in Latvia. On his release from prison debt collector Yaroslav Baturov meets a cop with clairvoyant abilities and gets involved in an extortion
operation that takes an unexpected turn in Shlomo Rubinstein’s Jewish deli
grocery store „Kosherland“.
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This is the great story of a hero baby. Trapped and imprisoned it is trying to
avoid another portion of green spinach in the arms of its over-caressing mom,
only hoping for the big escape!
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11. Bubbles don’t lie
04:58
2015
Stephan Etrych
CS
Prague Charles University
Engineer Cmiral wakes up, washes his face and teeth in the bathroom and
suddenly, a strange thing happens. A bubble like from a comic book appeares
above his head. Number 6 is inside the bubble. Suddenly everybody in the
world has a bubble, but no one knows the meaning of those different numbers.
Saturday, 21.05.2016
Jahnstraße 13,
99423 Weimar
1. Höhenrausch
02:00
2015
Christian Ruschitzka
A
HfG Linz
A voiceover to various minimalistic animations on a postcard consisting of
excerpts of a poem.
2. Herbst
03:00
2015
Meinhard
Rauchensteiner
A
Universität Wien
The director tries to teach Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘Herbst’ to a stuffed
animal.
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3. Die Badewanne /
The bathtub
13:12
2015
Tim Ellrich
D/A
Wien / Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg
Three brothers want to surprise their mother for her 60th birthday by recreating an old photo. But they face a few challenges as they have grown up - more
importantly: grown apart. A dispute aroses between them and their project
risks to fail.
4. Schwestern /
Sisters
06:00
2016
Oliver Haug
D
Hochschule der
Medien Stuttgart
5. Wiedersehen
07:41
2014
Petr Eremin
D
Hochschule Mainz
Two old friend meet again for a hike. Will they be able to settle their differences and find their way back to each other?
6. NUBUKE “A New Dawn”
08:00
2015
Bismark Aryee
GH
National Film and Television Institute – NAFTI in Accra Ghana
John Ampao had built a life and and a business as an artist for himself, until
one day he was diagnosed with leprosy. A film reminding the viewer that
disability does not equal inability.
Two sisters have a tense conversation in a car. Maria wants revenge. She
thinks that the only way to find closure is to either kill the man in the trunk
or kill herself.
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7. A Place to fight
14:17
2015
Matthias Lawetzky
D, INO
Hochschule für
Gestaltung Offenbach
A look into Indonesia’s underground. For centuries the cockfight has been
part of the culture, existing between tradition and illegality. This documentary shows the struggles and emotional challenges the owners have to face.
8. Kratzbaum
03:16
2015
Simon Glass
D
KHM Köln
The documentary musicvideo observes the everyday life at different cat shows
around Germany.
9. Pawel The Polish
Mouse Goes
to The Moon
03:37
2015
Pawel Stec
POL
University of Silesia Katowice
Pawel The Polish Mouse has a dream: to go to the moon. The only person able
to help him build a rocket is John, his human friend. John agrees to help him
and thus Pawel sets off on his journey to the moon. There is just one slight
problem.
10. Landscape
03:00
2015
Germán Machí,
Roman Aixendri
E
Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya
The black-and-white film portrays a man vocalising his deep thoughts and
thus sharing them with his dog. It is about the meaning of life considering its
limits and absurdity.
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11. I AM HERE
Figub Brazlevic
04:20
2015
Maik Schuster
D
FH Dortmund
13. Ausstieg Rechts
06:22
2015
Rupert Höller,
Bernhard Wenger
A
Filmakademie Wien
Figub Brazlevic is eternally searching for the right sound, the right groove. He
doesn’t need much, his living room turned into a studio. The short movie portrays the life of the Berliner-by-choice, for whom music is central.
Look away or intervene? When a black man is victim of unfounded, racial
abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who won’t ignore the situation like everyone else.
12. The Pit
03:59
2015
Damian Vondrasek
CS
FAMU Prague
14. Only John Welles
Wears Leather
10:40
2014
Jarno Harju
FIN
Lahti University of
Applied Science
A young man finds a man laying dead in a pit. After his colleagues refuse to
help him he decides to continue work and forget about the incident.
When a mysterious lady enters the office of detective Dick Hardy with a
mission. Quickly things get intimate. After leaving the room the lady is shot
right in front of the door. It turns out that John Welles, who was actually
presumed dead is still alive. He kidnaps the investigator to hold him captive
in his basement.
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15. The Convicted
10:00
2015
Josh Mitchell
US
17. Help
01:05
2013
Mahnaz Yazdani
IRN
University of Tehran
Dictorial addresses, great arms, expensive accessories and killing glances: the
mafia boss scares people surrounding him. His accomplices enter the bar where
beautiful southern women sing, they drink a double Whiskey and they are
strained because they face a major task.
Do the demand for happenings and the pressure to documentate everything
erase natural instincts and humanity? The animated short movie shows that it
is time to think once more before pulling out ones camera.
16. Die Randgruppe
05:50
2015
Julius Grimm
D
Hochschule für Fernsehen
und Film München
18. ON/OFF
00:51
2015
Kuesti Fraun
D
A group of suicidal people meet on a rooftop with the intention to jump. All
end up their lives - more or less voluntarily. But one of the men only plays one
game.
A man finds out how to control the sunlight by using the light switch in his
apartment. But after repeated switching on and off, the world outside just
stays dark.
backup.at.home
Sunday, 22.05.2015
Hababusch,
(Geleitstraße 4, 99423 Weimar)
Open Screening
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BACKUP.ART.SCREEN
E-WERK
(Am Kirschberg 4)
Together with our partner LEMONAID we will
be showing the project „My Utopia. Ideas for a
better world.“ on screen at the festival’s main venue
Lichthaus Kino in the E-Werk.
For over two years LEMONAID and the FilmFabrique Kollektiv have been talking to a diversity of
people about their ideas for a better future as part
of the project: painters & musicians, scientists &
activists, thinkers & doers- they all describe their
personal utopia. These films can now be seen at
backup as well.
Backup.art.screen is an exhibition of artistic
works whose presentation forms and methods
leave the digital behind. The connection between
people, nature and technology constitute the
exhibition. Narratives, and digital works beyond
the projection screen are combined in a spiritual
net. Backup.art.screen invites you to experience
the seemingly chaotic digital path in the light of
monitors and projection screens together with the
filmmakers. Through the hypnotizing technical
and aesthetic trip one experiences elusive transcendental moments, and within them finds the
unseen.
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GASWERK
(Schwanseestr. 92)
TH
19.05.2016 20.00 - 24.00 H
And you can join us, too: enter the LEMONAID
photo booth and share your idea of a better world.
Post your Utopia GIF using the hashtags #meineutopie and #lemonaid on your facebook, twitter and
instagram and get a chance to win tickets to exciting Future Conferences. We are looking forward to
YOUR Utopia!
FR
20.05.2016 12.00 - 20.00 H
www.lemon-aid.de/meineutopie
SA 21.05.2016 12.00 - 20.00 H
SU 22.05.2016 14.00 - 18.00 H
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GASWERK
1. Three Dimension of Time
13:30, 2016, Pim Zwier, NL/R
2. Woman without Mandolin
04:40, 2015, Fabiano Mixo, D
3. Aufgelöst
04.03, 2015, Stefanie Weberhofer A
4. Freedom and
Independence
15:00, 2015, Bjørn Melhus, D
5. Natural Attraction
05:18, 2015, Marc Zimmermann, D
6. Eau Vive - Conversation
with a cinematographer
08:50, 2015, Khristine Gillard, B
7. Chaos in Cosmos
04.21, 2014, Duygu Nazli, TRK
8. alacritas
12:09, 2015, Joscha Bongard, D
9. Kin Kontempo
10:08, 2015, Renate Wembo Réré,
KON
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10. Online
29:16, 2015, Arijana Lekić- Fridrih
KRO
11. Cities Potential Space
30:00, 2014, Gusztáv Hámos, Katja
Pratschke, F/D/H/US
12. A Moment at Grandma‘s
07:27, 2015, Jannis Alexander Kiefer,
D
13. Launch Pad for
Consciousness
05:40, 2015, Ezry Keydar, ISL
14. Ars Natura Part III
08:07, 2015, Hans Leysieffer, I
19. Ant
15:09, 2014, Nacho Recio, E
20. Nazimova’s Dream
02:49, 2014, Lindsay Greer, US
21. Ichographs MdelP
04:23, 2015, Yiannis Kranidiotis, GR
22. The Words hear the Light
17:42, 2015, Diego Fiori, Olga Pohankova, A
23. ELLA
15:00, 2015, Alexey Taran, Carla
Forte, US
15. Prehistorized
06:44, 2015, Eugene Sun Park, US
24. Novaciéries
16:43, 2015, Marine Brutti, Jonathan
Debrouwer, Arthur Harel, Celine
Ginoret, F
16. Pallasseum - Invisible City
25:10, 2015, Manuel Inacker, D
25. Metria
03:30, 2014, Melisa Aller, ARG
17. Cute as a Button
04:48, 2015, Marta Finkelstein, US
26. The Choir
10:00, 2015, Maciej Jarczyński, PL
27. Notes on the Trilogy of
the Interspatiality of Love
10:45, 2015, Davide Crivelli, D
28. Arisen
10:04, 2014, Ben Dolphin, US
29. Arising
10:04, 2014, Ben Dolphin, US
30. On Arising
10:04, 2014, Ben Dolphin ,US
31. K.E.R.O.S.E.N.E poems
from the planet
07:07, 2015, Jukka- Pekka Jalovaara,
FIN
32. Peep
04:48, 2010, Wesley Leon Aroozoo,
SIN
18. Cosmorama
07:55, 2015, Eren Aksu, TRK
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SCENOGRAPHY
Every year backup gives itself a theme, that is both
an inspiration and limitation for the interdisciplinary artistic and creative investigation of the backup.
team and connects all doings sensually and sensuously. In the year 2016 the theme is as current as it is
timeless- “Fearless”:
Fear has many faces. It can suddenly grab, paralyze
and steal your breath away. It can creep up on you,
silent and unnoticed- like a haze closing in on your
soul. Fear is your companion, a constant shadow
lurking in the background, sometimes affecting you
more, sometimes less.
As a child the feeling of fear could easily be conquered by the comforting words of our parents-today it takes a bit more effort to overcome.
Existing without fear seems so much easier. No
subconscious doubt, no mental strain. But: Can we
even experience fearlessness, without having ever
been afraid?
What are we scared of? How do we overcome our
fears and what is courage? Questions, that are not
just directed towards every single one of us, but also
build the thematic foundation of this year’s 18th
annual backup_festival 2016.
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Being fearless means to be aware of your fears
and live with them, to not let them influence or
limit you. We want to explore the phenomenon of
standing up to your fear and as a result creating
something great. We are going on an international
search for innovative short films by students and
graduates of Art, Media and Design Schools. Curious, excited, fearless.
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WEIMARER
POETRYFILMPREIS
In recent years the poetry film has gained considerable importance. For the first time the backup_festival and the Literarische Gesellschaft Thüringen e.V.
are following this development with a corporate,
internationally advertised poetry film contest. Filmmakers were invited to submit contributions dealing
with lyrical texts in a new and innovative way,
mainly focusing on the creative dialogue between
the two art forms, rather than the simple filming of
the poems themselves.
The goal of the contest is the long-term support of
the poetry film in Thuringia and Central Germany.
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JURY
Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel lives in Berlin and studied German,
Romance and Media- and Communications in Mannheim. He works as independant research assistant at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology) in Karlsruhe and has been the artistic head of the ZEBRA Poetry Film
Festival and film curator for interfilm Berlin since 2006. He has, furthermore,
been working as media educator and has been involved in several film festivals as a jury member.
Nancy Hünger was born in 1981 and studied liberal arts at the Bauhaus
University Weimar. Afterwards she dedicated herself entirely to literature. She
has received several scholarships like the Hermann-Lenz-Scholarship and
Caroline-Schlegel-Scholarship, etc.
She now lives in Erfurt as independent writer and author.
Hubert Sielecki, born in 1946, studied at the Academy of Applied Arts
in Vienna and at the Film Academy in Lodz, Poland. From 1982 to 2012 he
taught at his alma mater in Vienna where he also founded the “studio for
experimental animation film”. Foundations of “Asifa Austria” (1984) and film
production company “Animotion Film Vienna” (1988) followed. Sielecki
worked with many artists, musicians and filmmakers like Maria Lassnig,
Ernst Schmidt jun., Zbig Rybczynski, Kurt Kren, Tone Fink, Valentin Oman,
Gerhard Rühm, Antonio Fian, Wolfgang Mitterer, Maria Temnitschka and
Jochen Kuhn. Since 2007 he has sponsored several film awards for artistic and
experimental animation and short films in favor of young austrian filmmakers.
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1.Continental Drift
Bangladesh/Belgium
2014
6:16
Nayeem Mahbub
Text: Nayeem Mahbub
A man is haunted by his memories of war, border crossings, violence and asylum. He struggled to find his place in a foreign country and now rages at the
cosmic cruelty of having gone through all this for his loved ones, who died
crossing the sea before they could join him.
2. The Stone of the Olive
Egypt
2016
4:00
Nissmah Roshdy
Text: Saurav Dutt
A young man struggles to stay attached to his homeland after war takes over
his country. As he faces destruction and violence, the only thing that ties his
spirit to the land is the olive tree.
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3. Junges Blut
Germany
2015
03:56
Sonja Rohleder
Text: Norbert Leisegang
5. Sottoripa
Italy
2013
07:00
Guglielmo Trupia
Text: Julian Stannard
When a storm hits the world, it might be the best to just let go and drift along.
The film is inspired by the Poem,
“Sottoripa” (1984), found amongst
the stalls of the little streets of
Genova. A casual descovery which
has brought the director Guglielmo Trupia and the author of the
poem Julian Stannard, to confront
and remember the city to which
both are linked.
4. Waves
Norway
2013
02:06
Kristian Pedersen
Text: Tor Ulven
Everything disappears. Recordings of our voices will become archeological
remains, and a spinning record yields fossil waves. “Waves” is based on three
poems by Tor Ulven.
6. The Minute
Colombia/US
2015
01:10
Adrián Suárez Text: Charles Bukowski
This short film is based on the interpretation of the poem “The Minute” by
Charles Bukowski. Adrián Suárez translates the poem from the paper to the
audiovisual genre with original aesthetics.
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7. Matter of Fact
Serbia
2015
03:00
Svetlana Maras
“Matter of Fact” is a multimedia work. In essence, it is a musical project that
has strong roots in the genres of cut-up composition and sound poetry. The
lyrics are snippets taken from interviews made with artists for the purpose of
the Seismographic Sounds Exhibition.
8. Apple – Enter – Escape
Germany
2014
0:30
Claire Dorweiler
Enamoured of an entity.
Man? Machine? Digital? Real?
To the point of crash?
A short play with exPRESSions and opiniONs.
9. Zeitlicht
Germany
2014
4:32
Betina Kuntsch
Text: Kathrin Schmidt
10. Imaging Time
Australia
2015
01:56
Jelena Sinik
Text: T. S. Elliot
Adapted from the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot,
Imagining Time is designed in a split-screen format. The animation combines
notions of the disruption of the everyday; magical realism and surrealism
with the themes of isolation, introversion and passivity from the poem.
11. What about the Law
South Africa
2014
03:14
Charles Badenhorst Gedicht: Adam Small
This film is part of a series of short films of classical Afrikaans poems. This
poem is an iconic work condemning segregation laws under Apartheid South
Africa. It tells a story of a white woman who falls in love with a coloured man.
It is a conversation between the woman, the man and the community about
how the law is killing their love and ultimately takes their lives.
A mother, a father a child... a diva, a soldier, a dance... history, step by step.
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12. An ordinary blue Monday
South Africa
2014
03:21
Naomi van Niekerk
Text: Ronelda Kamfer
The Abyss is a self-portrait. Diasporic, and future-now; it explores the theme
of the identity as a Congolese-British Queer woman. The piece is based on a
poem that I wrote shortly after having faced trauma as a result of homophobia from close family members. The Abyss, in short, is about embracing the
darkness to survive.
This film is part of a series of short films about classical and contemporary
Afrikaans poems. In the morning, a girl gets ready to go to school. In the
neighborhood of the ghetto she lives in, violence is part of everyday life.
15. Srfaem
Austria
2015
3:28
Jörg Piringer
13. LEERSTELLE
Germany
2016
4:30
Urte Zintler
Text: Hilde Domin
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“Srfaem” ist eine visuelle Geräusch-Gedicht Improvisation. Jeder einzelne
Buchstabe repräsentiert, kontrolliert und manipuliert einen live aufgenommenen Geräuscheschnipsel einer Stimme.
The film ‘LEERSTELLE’ is a poetic controversion with the topic of home
and the experience of the outland as new home. Composed fragments of the
poem of Hilde Domin and the consolidation and overlap of sketchy drawings,
never completed, always the possibility of dispersing, describe the permanent
search for an inner place of silent- a place of deceleration.
16. Steel and Air
US
2015
03:34
Chris and Nick Libbey
Text: John Ashbery
14. The Abyss
Great Britain
2015
02:05
RezaKio
Text: Christina Fonthes
Der Film “Steel and Air” zielt darauf ab, Ashbery’s Gedicht zu erfassen und
zu steigern, mit der Aufzeichnung von einer Reise eines Mannes durch das
Leben. Es geht um seine wundervollen, aber auch langweiligen Erfahrungen,
die die Reise mit sich bringt. Und dann wird es sehr kühl.
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BACKUP.CONNECT
Filmkollektiv
Clemens Beier | Duc Ngo Ngoc | Christoph Eder |
Till Krücken | Patrick Richter
Wir machen Filme.
Clemens Beier was born in the German-Polish border town Görlitz/Zgorzelec in 1989. After
graduating in Media Arts at the Bauhaus-University Weimar he started his studies in directing at the
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Backup.connect offers a platform for entrepreneurs
form the media community and young, aspiring artists from the Bauhaus University Weimar.
Invited media producers present their projects in
a series of lectures. Backup.connect focuses on
the economy and ways to support young artists.
Therefore, it has a very special role within the
program of the backup_festival. The students will
be able to get an insight into working methods and
successful strategies of professional companies.
In addition to that, it offers a chance to establish
contacts between students and the film industry.
The aim is to facilitate the students’ entry into professional life. For the attending media producers,
backup.connect enables them to recognize new
innovations and trends. In a following discussion
the audience can ask questions to the experts.
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Christoph Eder, was born on the island Rügen in 1987 and grew up in Göhren. In 2010 he
graduated as Audiovisual Media Designer and
has been working as a freelancer since then. He
has been studying Media Art and Design at the
Bauhaus-University Weimar since 2011. Together
with four other filmmakers he founded the KAMMER11 Filmkolletiv in 2013. Besides working
in the field of documentary films he directs and
produces music videos and commercial film productions.
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Duc Ngo Ngoc Duc Ngo Ngoc was born in
1988 in Hanoi before moving to Berlin at the age
of 5. From 2010 until 2014 he studied Media Art
and Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
Since 2015 he is enrolled in the Directing Masters
program at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Till Krücken grew up in Berlin and is currently
studying Media Art (B.F.A.) at the Bauhaus-University. He recently directed and edited music
videos for artists like Teesy and Megaloh and is
also known as the rapper “Dissythekid”.
Patrick Richter is a filmmaker from Erfurt.
His documentary works are often very personal.
He received an award for “Best Contribution” in a
German competition for short films in Oberhausen
for his film “Neunundreißig” which was created in
2012 as part of his graduation work at the Bauhaus
University Weimar. At the moment he is studying
to get a Master’s degree and works as a freelancer
for film- and video productions.
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1. IMBISS
13:11
2016
Christoph Eder,
Jonas Eisenschmidt
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The documentary “Imbiss” tells the story about a greek family which runs a
flourishing kiosk on the greek island of Lesvos. Their best customers: refugees
from the war torn areas of the middle east.
2. Gesandte Ihrer Art
11:00
2012
Patrick Richter,
Jessy Asmus
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The documentary G follows a scientific taxidermist. Marco Fischer talks
about our society’s lack of interest in the quiet disappearance of species. In his
workshop he prepares each animal as an ambassador that can hopefully bring
back the spirit of nature to the visitors of the museums of natural history.
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3. Für dich bei mir /
Margret and Helmut
30:00
2016
Clemens Beier
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
5. Martin Kohlstedt - EXA (Douglas Dare Rework)
06:48
2015
Patrick Richter
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Surrounded by the cheap housing estates in a German small town, Margret
dreams of finally traveling the world, but her husband’s dementia makes
this practically impossible. All life seems to have escaped his passive gaze,
but Margret won’t give up. She is in search of her old, familliar Helmut, but
during the fight for the future and the past, she is in danger of losing herself
and increasingly gets lost in her own delusion. As the line between reality and
illusion disappears entirely, Margret realizes that it is time to make a decision.
For the rework of his album ‘Nacht’ the pianist Martin Kohlstedt met different
musicians to record his old tunes in a new way. Therefore, he came together
with the english vocal artist Douglas Dare and both performed the song ‘Exa’
live at UT Connewitz Leipzig.
4. Ronny
03:20
2016
Duc Ngo Ngoc
D
Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar
6. Megaloh - Was ihr seht
4:35
2016
Till Krücken, Christoph Eder
Deutschland
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
The documetary photo film joins the alcoholic Ronny on his journey.
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BAUHAUS.FILMS
Bauhaus.films shows a small selection of outstanding work made by students of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Traditionally, new and high quality
films made in Weimar are displayed at the backup_festival. The program reflects the full range
of artistic creation due to the education at the
Bauhaus University in Weimar and gives the visitor a small insight into the variety of the student
conception.
Re:MIX
Bauhaus-University students of the field of study
multimedia-based telling recorded three short
tracks of the musician and DJ Marlow within the
framework of the project “Re:MIX”. They explored
the relationship between Sound and moving image.
The tracks are part of the album “In the Backroom”,
which is going to be released in summer 2016 from
the Berliner recordlabel Sonar Kollektiv. Marlow
uses the technic for sampling and remixing. At the
visual level the students tied in with the usage of
Found Footage and technics of the moving collage
as well as in the LEGETECHNIK?. Short videoclips
were the results and also an interactive work. Aline
Helmecke took care of the project.
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1. Der Albenbaum
16:13
2015
Maximilian Zwiener
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The film tells the fantastic story of August, a mute boy who feels very lonely.
One day, he encounters a bird who tells him the story of the Albenbaum, an
old, magical tree. The tree is in great danger and the bird has come to ask August to help him save it. August sets off on a journey that will change his life.
2. Kontakt
08:51
2015
Jana Magdalena Keuchel,
Holger Reissig
D
Professional Media
Master Class Werkleitz
In its apparent simplicity, an experience shared by strangers awakens a deep
longing.
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3. Farewell Scenes
21:34
2014
Alina Cyranek
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
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5. Günter’s Getaway
04:10
2015
Scarlett Nimz
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Martha, Anneliese and Esther are almost 90 years old. Their passion lies
in the theatre, where they act, exercise and laugh. Even though death and
farewell, grief and perishability are part of their daily lives, taking on different
roles and having fun motivates them to take an active part in society.
Günther is a 75 year old retiree who breaks free from his strict and stern
father’s influence.
4. To the Sea
18:03
2015
Daniel Schulz
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
6. Palliative
03:01
2014
Anja Bauer
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The future is bleak, the world has been devastated by war. Tristan thought he
was the only survivor of this apocalypse. But then he meets Miriam, a young
woman whose loneliness made her lose the will to live. Tristan decides to join
her on a journey to the world’s end.
Dark clouds threaten to cover the blue sky. The film tells a story about loss
and pain, comfort and personal restart. There are some experiences none of
us would like to undergo. Yet, the final message of the film is clear: a cold,
dark winter is always followed by spring.
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7. Ortiz
02:50
2015
Erik Hölperl
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
9. Hidden Place
05:00
2016
Juliane Fischer
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Ruben Alcantara is forty years old. He tells us about his passion for a dangerous sport that he has been practicing his whole life. Adrenalin and freedom
are part of the numerous feelings he describes.
To break free, to start over again. To take time, to figure things out properly,
to rest and to enjoy rare moments. That’s what ‘Hidden Place’ is about. The
film follows the Berlin based artist Christian H. over several months and
shows how this project was made.
8. Walking & Falling
02:24
2016
Lida Ebrahimi
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
10. Elevator Kitsch
15:20
2014
Mirko Muhshoff
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
To fall down and to rise again, that’s how the filmmaker defines life. Making
mistakes, missing opportunities and trusting the wrong people, these things
happen constantly. But what makes us rise again every time we fall? The question remains unanswered.
Charlie is a young, unsuccessful screenwriter who vehemently resists using
any clichés in his new script. After an unconvincing meeting with his producer Charlie decides to look for a source of inspiration in real life. When he suddenly finds himself blocked in an elevator with three other people, the young
man experiences dialogues, emotions and stereotypes that could fit perfectly
for his new screenplay.
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11. Unwound
03:00
2015
Johannes Kürschner,
Paul Stephani
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
A long time after the fall of the Berlin Wall two former East Germans, Ralle
and Günther, meet again in Günther’s workshop. They drink beer, smoke
cigarettes and talk about past times. Unfortunately, they realize that their new
life is not as satisfying as they thought it would be. A story about fear, hope
and loss of prospect.
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13. I DO WE DO
02:15
2016
Olivia Sieranski
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
This music video shows that not just the music by Marlow is made out of
small pieces that actually don‘t belong together. The video is inspired by this
concept, it shows a crazy, small world pieced together by snippets of video
and photo.
12. PERHAPS
02:05
2016
Maximilian Zwiener
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
14. PERHAPS
02:10
2016
Stefanie Wolf
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Each system has its rebels. Set in a relentless microcosm the film examines the
fine line between misfit and insurgent.
The film is about a collision between two different worlds. One of them is
rather natural while the other one is more artificial and mechanical. The main
character is a robot that changes by the influences of both worlds until he has
to give in to one of them.
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15. I DO WE DO
02:22
2016
Scarlett Nimz
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
17. MIND
01:32
2016
Adam Streicher
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
In the middle of an endless desert, under the influence of unbearable heat, the
viewer gets overwhelmed and eventually consumed by a hallucination.
Sometimes music can blow your mind.
16. I DO WE DO
02:23
2016
Jessica Hüttig
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
18. AND HIS MIND
BLOWN
01:42
2016
Rico Sperl
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The video shows a tribal dance depicting the natural circle of life. The movements of the dancer to the beat of the drums get interchanged by feral images
of the hunt. The hunt ends in the death of the prey and the looming death of
the hunter portraying the lingering call of nature itself.
‘And His Mind Blown’ is a music video which was created during the project module RE:Mix at the Bauhaus University Weimar. The video combines
found footage material and geometrical figures that move, change and disappear with the rhythm of the music.
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19. AND HIS MIND
BLOWN
01:32
2016
Benjamin Voßler
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Slowly the viewer is introduced to a microscopically tiny world. He flies over
mountains and through valleys, step by step he gets to know the area better
with a torch. Somehow everything seems flexible and elastic. Entire worlds
are moving and growing to the rhythm of the music.
20. I DO WE DO
02:20
2016
Jonathan-David Wedler
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The track ‘I Do We Do’ (Marlow, Sonar Kollektiv, 2016) is built out of bizarre
and strange loops, however, somehow sounding oddly familiar. The music
video depicts the tension between everyday life, routine and estrangement.
21. I DO WE DO
02:23
2016
Mahsa Nejad
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
A ropedancer starts drinking and amuses with her movements. But drinking
in this film is a symbol of the problems in life. Moreover, she should keep her
hopes and balance in this situation.
22. MY THIRD EYE
02:42
2016
Thi Hong Linh Nguyen
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Demons covered the landscape with a black layer. The third eye appears.
23. AND HIS MIND BLOWN
01:35
2016
Ellen Neugebauer
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
This music video deals with the human being who wants to understand and
form his environment. However, the limit of his imagination is defined by
nature. Music: Marlow - And His Mind Blown.
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24. I DO WE DO
02:15
2016
Juliane Schwabenbauer
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
A group of hikers stands on a hill waving to other people who love, care and
look out for each other.
25. AND HIS MIND
BLOWN
01:34
2016
Gianluca Pandolfo
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Scientists try to unscramble the secrets of the human brain. They measure
brain waves to gain insights. The shown sequences in the film were generated
with a neuronal network.
26. Where Have All
The Flowers Gone
02:11
2016
Rob Schwarz
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
‘Where have all the flowers gone?’ is a music animation video about the rise
and fall of the Kyara-Civilisation. The Kyaras are anthropomorphic beings
living in a prehistorical environment. Their evolution is founded by the development of weapons and conquering the nature. Like a non stoppable train of
war they are crossing the point of no return while running faster and faster to
their downfall. All what is left are crosses and plants growing over the graves.
27. Installation Projekt
„Re:Mix“
2016
Stepan Boldt
D
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
The installation is about the interaction of the viewer with the music video.
The visitors have the opportunity to guide the camera in order to change the
viewing perspective. This way they can observe an initial 2D music video in
an abstract 3D space.
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BACKUP.AT.SCHOOL
Special Program for students
“Young Talents”
The workshop event for young
filmmakers is part of the festival,
such as watching movies themselves.
No wonder, since backup@school
has already been awarded in 2013
as “Best Student Project” Thuringia
by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
(Association of German Engineers).
For students of the 9th grade of the
Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Weimar worked for the backup_festival
to extensive media projects.
36 students were brought from
14 to 18 March 2016 from their
classrooms in the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Bauhaus Film
Institute premises. The professional
management took over the teachers
Mr. Mario Koch and Mr. Rüdiger
Heerdegen and backup tutors for TV
studio equipment and lighting design (Martin Saalfrank), stop motion
and animation (Maximilian Zwiener, Catalina Giraldo Velez), radio
/ audio design (Arian Wichmann &
Tina Wagner), 3D animation (Amr
Kamel), computer science (Stefan
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Hürdler), Photo (Michael Matthey)
and documentation / Making-of
(Wieland Mikolajczyk). The students
worked in eight groups both in the
studio as in television and animation
studio, video interface, in the recording studio as well as in a team that
documented the entire workshop.
The groups rotated and learned every
day in a different area.
The project was carried out jointly with the Landeszentrale für
politische Bildung Thüringen
(Political Education Authority of
Thuringia).
1. Adventures of Malia
11:37, 2015, Shubhavi Arya, IND
2. Freitag der 13.
08:00, 2016, Rike Lehmann, Tim
Jezirowski, Frederik Windhauer,
Natalie Zimmermann, D
3. A little Daydream
05:31, 2016, Jessica Müller, Cedric
Eckstein, Paul Hesse, Dana Ward, D
4. Smash
02:08, 2015, Sophie Weber, Leon
Obendorf, D
5. Making of backup.at.
school
08:00
6. Conejo and Henry
01:56, 2016, Charlotte Siegesmund,
Gina Ritter, Florian Ehrhardt, Catalina Giraldo, Ludwig Wehling, D
7. Behind the Rocks
05:00, 2015, Maia Costea, CDN
8. Upss
01:30, 2015, Group of authors, KRO
9. Run Run Away
04:00, 2016, Grete Elise Dauer,
Jessica Müller, Sophie Schmiedel,
Rike Lehmann, Moritz Taubmann,
Cedric Eckstein, Victoria Härdrich,
Paul Hesse, Tim Jezirowski, Paula
Schäller, Simon Scherkus, Franz
Schiecke, Dana Ward, David Wilz,
Frederik Windhauer, Natalie Zimmermann, Franziska Lamers, Tom
Lattermann, Sophia Schmitz-Riol,
Martin Verbias, Philipp Wolf, Tim
Zöllner, Roxana Bán, Julius Beier,
Luise Friederike Bleul, Hannes Hausmann, Richard Herzog, Leo Kilian,
Jio Lee, Ludwig Lorenz, Jannik
Marthe, Daniel Aaron Müller, Sarah
Pietsch, Johanna Schonert, Agnes
Weidenbach, D
10. The Sun Whisperer
01:00, 2015, Julia Polkowska, POL
11. Ich träume, Ich strebe, Ich
werde.
07:08, 2016, Grete Elise Dauer, Sophie Schmiedel, Moritz Taubmann,
Paul Hesse, D
12. Der Kongress
11:16, 2016, Ludwig Lorenz, Daniel
Aaron Müller, Sarah Pietsch, Agnes
Weidenbach, Mark Freyer, Jullien
Holland, Martin Verbias, Roxana
Bán, Hannes Hausmann, Leonard
Mortag, D
13. Memories
10:05, 2015, Lukas Mohl, D
14. INSIGNIFICANCE /dRAW
not WAR
05:40, 2015, Matteo Valenti, BIH, I
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backup Opening Program NTU Singapur
Nanyang Technological University School Of Art, Design And Media Singapore
The School of Art, Design & Media, briefly ADM,
is part of the Nanyang Technological University
in Singapore and exists since eleven years. The
students spend four years in the fields of film, animation, Visual Communication, Product Design,
Photography and Interactive Media, and close
with a Bachelor of Art. Recently, ADM also offers
a Master.
The most of the following films are emerged as
so-called “Final Year Project”. They are bachelor
theses, which were produced in the fourth year in
a team or individual work.
1. Horizon
05:25, 2015, Benjamin Low Chern
Long, Kamelia Umirah Binte Kamsani, Rola Lo Hsin Lin
2. The Beach Boy
07:48, 2015, Hannes Rall
3. Bubble
05:40, 2014, Lam Yee Shing, Quek Yu
Lin, Poh Ya Ching
4. The Animals
06.18, 2014, Mark Wee
5. The Angel and the Swallow
02:49, 2015, Ang Si Hui Vellerie
6. The Girl and her Tail
02:19, 2014, Yong Jie Yu
7. The Octopus Lady
03.34, 2015, Amanda Wang Ziyan
9. Trolled
04:26, 2015, Tao Kai Yuan, Clara Lim
10. Downtown
01:32, 2014, Tran Nguyen Tuan Anh
11. MiMo
01:43, 2014, Chang Pei Yee, Oon
Qian Yi Shannon
12. Autogenic
03:45, 2014, Prakash
13. Coldstream
01:57, 2014, Nicholas Chia, Yang
Sishuo, Yeo Shiyun, Goh Peng Fong
14. Alucinari
03:06, 2015, Loh Li Wei, Chen Huitian
15. Pale blue Dot
03:59, 2015, Chin Li Zhi
8. Route 52
05:55, 2014, Jacinth Tan Yi Ting, Tok
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“Fearless”
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1. Hits like a Girl
11:11
2014
Harry Sherriff
GB
University of Central Lancashire,
Manchester Metropolitan University
4. Golden
03:00
2015
Kai Stänicke
D
FH Dortmund.
7. Cinnamon skin
04:52
2014
Alejandro de Vega
E
Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos Madrid
2. KIRA
12:00
2015
Dilgesh Rojbeyani
B
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone
Kunsten Antwerpen
5. Drop
09:15
2015
Yotam Knispel
ISR
Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit
Berl College
8. COLLEAGUES
10:16
2016
Damian Weber
D
Kunsthochschule
für Medien Köln
3.RAZOR
09:02
2014
Rajko Ristanović
SRB
Academy of Arts Belgrade
6. Suitcases
02:40
2015
Leslie Pulsifer
CDN
Sheridan College
9. An Angel’s Tale
02:43
2015
Sara Boix Grau
CDN
9Zeros. Escola
d’animació de Catalunya
10. Agoraphobia
03:20
2015
Robert Gordon,
Ryan Smith
US
El Toro High School
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Special Program
“Horror and Trash Night”
1. Once Upon a Time in the
USSR
06:00
2015
Mikhail Zheleznikov
RUS
Saint Petersburg State University of
Cinema and Television
2. Camera Iperbarica
11:00
2014
Maurizio Loi
ITA
Rome University of Fine Arts
3. ApeShit Bananarang
05:10
2015
Benjamin Allen,
Ricardo Quinones
US
New-York University
Tisch School of the Arts
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4. Nobody Will Know
04:01
2015
GB
University of Essex, Colchester
5. Exposure
03:30
2015
Ignacio F. Rodó
E
Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya
6. Sweet Hollow
10:27
2015
Sean Lee
US
New-York University
Tisch School of the Arts
7. Director’s Cut
15:00
2015
Pol Diggler
E
Escola de Mitjans
Audiovisuals Barcelona
10. THE CLOUD
06:00
2015
Alfonso García López
E
Educated by Youtube
8. Helium-Baby
05:55
2015
Niko Kühnel
D
Johannes GutenbergUniversität Mainz
9. A Call in the Night
04:05
2015
Trifun Sitnikovski
MAZ
European Film, T
heater and Dance Academy, Skopje
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TAIWAN.AT.BACKUP
In this exchange program, we present six short
films, including music videos, animations and
feature films from Taiwan. Students from National
Chengchi University and Fujen Catholic University produced these films. Collected and organized
by Prof. Dr. Yae-Wei Wang and Hain-Ruey Chan.
National Chengchi University (NCCU) is a
national co-educational research university located
in Taipei, Taiwan. The university specializes in
arts and humanities, social sciences, management,
politics and international affairs programs.
Fu-Jen Catholic University (FJU) is a
private, co-educational university founded by the
Holy See. It is located in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
It is especially known for its academic excellence
in philosophy, communication, graphic design
and applied sciences.
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1. Still Water Chocolate Tiger
05:24
2015
Pei-Hsuan Guo
CHN
Fu-Jen University
2. 49 days
20:00
2014
Di-Nuo Huang
CHN
National Cheng-Chi
University
3. Sound beyond
Silence
09:00
2013
Chi-Liang Chiu
CHN
Fu-Jen University
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4. Yu and Rachel
12:00
2014
Zi-En Wu
CHN
National Cheng-Chi
University
5. Not There - Easy
04:17
2014
Pei-Hsuan Guo
CHN
Fu-Jen University
6. Dear John
33:16
2011
Jui-En Chang
CHN
Fu-Jen University
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LATIN AMERICA.
AT.BACKUP
1. Disgrace
02:00
2015
Carolina Queiroz
BRA
Universidade Federal
de Juiz de Fora
2. Keep dreaming
06:00
2015
Juan Pablo Guadarrama
MEX
Vancouver Institute of Media Arts
3. GALAPAGOS,
beyond the islands
07:00
2015
Manuel Mateo Lajarín
ECU
Universidad Politécnica
de Valéncia
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4. Catatumbarí
06:57
2015
Oriana Contreras
VEN
Universidad de Los Andes Mérida
7. Bullets of Peace
05:23
2014
Rodrigo Michelangeli
CND
York University Toronto
5. Death Forest
08:33
2015
Lorena Colmenares
VEN
Universidad de
Los Andes Mérida
8. #YA
15:00
Ygor Gama,
Florencia Rovlich
2015
ARG / CHI / D
University of Buenos Aires
6. METRIA
03:30
2014
Melisa Aller
ARG
CIEVYC Cine y Artes
Audiovisuales Buenos Aires
9. Outside
07:20
2015
José Permar
MEX
Universidad de
Guadalajara
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10. Marcus Crash
12:47
2015
Roberto Benedetti
ARG
La Metro Escuela de
Comunicación
Audiovisual Córdoba
11. The House Job
17:00
2015
Filippo Capuzzi Lapietra
BRA
Fundação Armando
Alvares Penteado
RUSSLAND.AT.BACKUP
1. Dancing in Saint Petersburg
(St. Petersburg Travel Guide)
02:27
2015
Leonid Kalyadin
RUS
Russian Academy of Sciences
2. It’s ok
01:00
2015
Marat Narimanov
RUS
IPK TV i RV Russland
3. About the birds
07:00
2014
Marina Tolstobrova
RUS
Moscow State Conservatoire
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4. G
13:40
2016
Roman Safin
RUS
Moscow State Aviation
Technological University
5. Serenade
03:44
2015
Pasha Egorov
RUS
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts
6. The same blood
15:00
2015
Mitry Semenov-Aleynikov
RUS
Belarusian State Academy of Arts
7. Mokoi-Eden
02:32
2015
Anton Osipov, Olga Osipova
J, RUS
Russian Academy of Science
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8. LESSON
UNLEARNED 14\41
23:40
2016
Nina Vedmitskaya
RUS
Krasnoyarsk Academy
of Music and Theatre Art
9. Ein Mann tut, was ein Mann tun muss/
A man‘s gotta do what a man‘s gotta do
07:30
2015
Benjamin Rost
D
Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg
10. Moving in circles
14:26
2015
Maxim Dashkin
RUS
NYU Tisch School Of the Arts
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Special Program
RFC Madagaskar
presented by
Franka Sachse
In Madagascar - an island as big as
France and Luxembourg put together
- there exists only one film festival. The RFC (Rencontres du Film
Court de Madagascar) is not only
a platform for encounters between
filmmakers, it’s also an opportunity for young people to learn about
film. Once a year over 9 days a great
variety of films from Madagascar
and all over the world were screened
alongside a broad program of workshops and lectures by international
experts. Thus, the RFC provides
significant resources to an emerging
film community in an area of the
world which does not currently have
any film schools. The program is a
compilation of 5 films that have been
shown and awarded prizes in various
categories at RFC 2015 or 2016.
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1. Escale à Pajol /
Stopover in Pajol
13:32
2015
Mahamoud Ibrahim
MAD
2. Rog Zegwi Dan Pikan
04:06
2015
Azim Moollan
MAD
3. Nirin
15:45
2015
Josua Hotz
MAD
4. Anjara Paradisa
19:57
2015
Ketaka Razafimisa
MAD
5. Rough Life
05:03
2015
Sitraka Randriamahaly
MAD
BACKUP.MEETS
HUBERT SIELECKI
Hubert Sielecki studied at the school of applied art in Vienna and at the filmschool in Lodz.
Since 1982 he teaches at the University of applied
art in the masteclass of painting, animationfilm
and tapestry with Christian Ludwig Attersee.
Hubert Silecki is screenwriter, director, cinematographer, musician, audio engineer, actor,illustrator and painter in one person. He produces
authorfims and uses mainly the technic of the animationfilm. For his work he received many awards
at home and abroad. 1985 he got the funding price
for cinema, 1988 the Viennale-Price and 1996
the first price for the shortfilm “Air Fright” at the
Diagonale in Salzburg. With his film “Air Fright”
he was invented to 37 international festivals so far.
He produced eleven cinema commercials for the
magazine “Falter” and many other productions for
different institutions with his production company
“Animation Films Vienna”.
19991 Hubert Sielecki has founded the filmgroup
A.S.K. in which he’s working on no budget projects
together with the artists Paul Braunsteiner and
Luise Buisman.
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SHORT & CRISP - Part 1
The program includes a selection of
Hubert Sielecki’s oeuvre. An additional selection from the year 1969
to 1971, as well as some films by
his film group A.S.K. can be found
in Part 2 and yet another selection
including short spots and documentaries of his collaboration with Maria
Lassnig and Kurt Kren can be found
in Part 3.
Part 1 starts with animation films
from the years 1983 to 1997, followed
by a series of films from the year 2007,
after texts by Gerhard Rühm and his
voice, the co-founder of the Wiener
Gruppe in the 60s.
The film „Maria Lassnig Kantate“
(1992) is a portrait of the late painter
which is entirely drawn, sung, written
and displayed by the artist herself.
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After that, short films that are the
results of collaborations with musicians and writers are shown. After
the series „glaubwürdige Texte“
(„believable texts“), in which authentic writings from media, vernissages
and interviews are displayed by the
artist himself, we will wrap up/close
with two films, again after a poem
and a media text by Gerhard Rühm
from the years 2014 and 2015.
Almost all films are based on a piece
of writing or poem, which shows the
correlation of language and single
motion picture film in an experimental way.
In less than 80 minutes this program
offers a diverse and entertaining
showcase accompanied by explanations and personal stories of the
filmmaker himself.
1. Nachrichten
02:30
1983
9. Levitation
03:00
2007
17. Der Kurator
03:50
2011
2. Air Fright
08:10
1995
10. Maria Lassnig
Kantate
08:05
1992
18. Der Minister
02:30
2011
3. Buchfabrik
03:30
1996
11. Nitweitaget
01:10
1994
4. RaumaustatterStagl
04:00
2002
12. Radetzkyplatz
04:00
2010
5. Liebe TV
02:00
1997
13. Die Helden
04:30
1992
6. Ungleiche
Brueder
02:00
2007
14. Österreich !
04:00
2001
7. Lautgedicht
02:15
2007
8. Zahlengedicht
02:50
2007
15. Spur
03:52
2006
19. Der Prediger
02:20
2011
20. Trashy
rausgepustet
02:15
2012
21. Dialog über
Österreich
03:23
2014
22. Der längste
Kuss
04:30
2014
16. Der Reporter
02:15
2013
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ZATA BANKS
POETRYFILM PARALLAX
A curated selection of short film artworks chosen
for their alignment with poetic structures and
experiences, and with the visual, verbal and aural
languages of poetry in various forms.
Parallax is the apparent displacement, or difference in the apparent position, of a visual object,
when viewed along different lines of sight. In his
book Transcritique, the Japanese philosopher
Kojin Karatani uses the word ‘parallax’ to describe
Kant’s shifting between contradictory perspectives.
Kant’s “Antinomies of Reason” are contradictory
propositions, which seem valid from their own
perspectives, but which cannot be simultaneously
true. Kant argues alternately from one perspective,
then from the other, and Karatani describes Kant’s
approach as establishing a parallax between philosophical positions. Karatani asserts that parallax
does not equate with negativity, but it does not
negate negativity either. The basis of parallax is the
positivity of both positions.
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1. Spirit of Place
10:00
Oliver Harrison
8. Breathing
03:00
Guy Sherwin
2. Twelve Hours of Daylight
07:00
Bridget Sutherland
9. Eye
03:00
Guy Sherwin
3. Constellations
08:00
Julian Scordato
10. Our Bodies
02:00
Matt Mullins
4. It Started With a Murder
03:00
Susan Young
11. Talking Skull
03:00
David Asher Brook
5. Liberté
02:00
Maciej Piatek
12. Barattolo di Sale
10:00
PNEUMA
6. The Lost Reels
05:00
Matthew Humphreys
13. Growing Up
02:30
Eugeny Tsymbalyuk,
Ksana Kovalenko
7. Everything Makes Love
with the Silence
02:00
Hernan Talavera
14. Faster than Birds
03:00
Liliane Lijn
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Genius Loci Weimar
bckp
bckp concert
Videomapping & facade
projection festival
Backup will be hosting bckp_events
which include concerts, lounges and
a central party. Bands, live acts, DJ’s
and VJ artists will be performing
Wednesday till Saturday in various
locations around town. The events
will begin with Kids of Agelaide.
The opening concert will be held
at the traditional backup location Lichthaus Kino in the E-Werk.
The highlight of these events will
be bckp.2015 on Friday the 20th of
May at the Gaswerk, which for many
years has been known as a popular
location for artists and party people.
The backup.team will be also looking
forward to further musical performances from Kids of Adelaide, Dead
Disco, Miss Twinneedle, Dennis
Calmer, Zine, DJ Wretch, Thomas
Stieler und Einfach Hoeren.
Kids of Adelaide
Severin Specht and Benjamin Nolle
are the Kids of Adelaide. Their music
is english folk, a mix of mandolin,
harmonica, guitar and bass drum.
Specht and Nolle began their career as
street musicians; they finally released
their first CD in 2011. Since then,
Kids of Adelaide have been on tour
across Germany several times, even
making a night club tour in 2013.
Genius Loci Weimar is a festival for
site-specific audio-visual art and
interactive facade projections. The
concept of the festival is to embrace
the spirit of the location. This means
the reinterpretation of the architecture, history and other visible
and invisible layers of meaning of
buildings, and the urban situation
and the subsequent visualization of
these ideas using the techniques of
video mapping.
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Dead Disco
has been active in the german
indietronical scene since nine years.
Their music is a mix of indie dance,
electro and pop. DEAD DISCO
already played during the aftershows
of Kakkmaddafakka, Frittenbudde
and Egotronic.
As part of the tour “God Save the
Queen” & “Indie Heroes”, DEAD
DISCO played in various german
clubs such as Berghain Kantine in
Berlin, Übel und Gefährlich in Hamburg and Atomic Cafe in Munich. Dennis Calmer
Dennis Calmer was born in 1990 in
Flensburg. He began to take guitar lessons as a teenager and then
played in several school bands. In
2006, Calmer discovered his passion
for electronic music. Seeing artists
interacting and playing in a Berlin
club was the reason of his interest for
vinyl and DJ culture.
At the End of 2013, Dennis met
Luigi Rossi, founder of “Together in
the Dark”. Together, they began to
promote this concept around Europe,
creating several events.
Thomas Stieler
Born and raised in rural Saalfeld,
Thomas Stieler has been making a nationwide name for himself as DJ since
2005. In 2014 he signed a contract
with the Jena music label ‘Freude am
Tanzen’. Today he plays his House and
Electrobeats regularly all over Germany and also releases his tunes as a part
of the label’s podcast.
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Zine
The best way to completely and unbiasedly capture Zine’s sound without
being partial to any possibe description is a morphological analysis of
his journey through different DeepHouse and Techno sounds. This
analysis uses the morphological box,
a vivid picture of a multidimensional
matrix. While one moment the frequencies are dark and boost the bass
through the box easily, but with an
adamant groove, the next the lighter
House sound gives the Zwicky-Box a
lighter shade . “How deep can Deep
House be and how housy can Techno
be ?” The creative method of the
morphological box and Zine himself
give us the answer: Deepno.
bckp lounge
Einfach Hoeren
Einfach Hören is a Frankfurt music
label which was created in 2014. It
releases techno, house and experimental beats music on vinyls, tapes
and CDs. The label is also known
for organizing open air concerts
and club raves in Frankfurt. Philipp
Boss is the founder of that label,
and also a DJ and a producer. His
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music is a mix of funk, disco and
house. Philipps gets inspired by old
US house discs, but most of all, he’s
known for his groove.
Miss Twinneedle
Miss Twinneedle got the Blues - the
Rythm & Blues! Nothing enchants
your heart more than the music of
the 30ties and 60ties! This music
makes you dance the whole night.
Swing, Rythm & Blues, Popcorn,
Exotica, Soul and Rock n’ Roll from
Big Maybelle till Muddy Waters everything processed on black gold.
Night Club music from New-York to
New Orleans.
Wretch
Wretch grew up with rap and hiphop
of the nineties, crossed borders to
funk and soul music and completed his sound with old beats of the
nineties and modern beats à la trap.
Hiphop producers like Suff Daddy
or Dexter characterized his sets over
the last years - some broken beats are
even found in his playlist.
Three 2. Prizes of 200 Euro each, go to:
- “Der Flugelefant” from Erik Sachse
- “Fearless” from Jazmine McLay
- “You don‘t get me” from Judith Hirsch
The 1. Prize of 400 Euro goes to:
- “Kopfsprung” from Vincent Cramer
About the competition:
This competition was set up for students and
alumni of the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
The winners received collectively prizes surmounting to EUR 1,000.00.
The prize money could have also been divided on
more submissions by the jury. Furthermore, the
winning poster will be printed. This year‘s festival
theme is Fearless.
Nominated were:
Andreas Bortolamedi
Julian Castillo
Vincent Cramer
Erik Lippold
Vadim Makarucha
Jazmine McLay
Marco Mehringer
Irena Milenkovic
Fiona Mortimer
Happy Little Accidents
Judith Hirsch
Erik Sachse
Lisa Seibt
Benedikt Sobel
Christoph Stötzer
Michael Ozerov &
Philipp Wartenberg
Richard Welz
The Jury:
Aline Helmcke, animation film artist and instructor
Wolfram Höhne, artist, filmmaker and instructor
Dr. Simon Frisch, Film- and Mediascientist and instructor
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Ramona Ahlemann, Carlotta
Aubenque, Carolin Bähr, Ophélie
Barri, Anja Bauer, Justine Bitam,
Lisa Böhm, Hendrik Böhme, Jad
Boureslan, Julian Bucksmaier, Julian
Castillo, Hain-Ruey Chan, YungChing Chiu, Max Conrad, Leonardo
Costa, Juliette Crouzoulon, Maria
Degand, Franziska Dagnet, Lena
Daun, Inma Descalzo, Johanna
Dietrich, Bigyan Dixit, Dominique
Dubin, Sarah Eichert, Kevin Fechner,
Normen Fritz, Mar Gay Rodríguez,
Fabienne Gerards, Mathilde Gest,
Elise Giroud, Ina Gössel, Alexander
Graeff, Marie Grobler, Jonas Grund,
Léa Nathalie Guérin, Alena Gulau,
Lisa Gulden, Johannes Hagemann,
Lisa Hager, Fabian Hapich, Elise
Hentzschel, Alena Hepp, Malin
Heppner, Paul Hermann, Sebastian Herrmann, Neele Hille, Svenja
Hoderlein, Johanna Hofer, Annika
Hollstein, Zhenjia Hu, Stefan Hürdler, Maja Itner, Mohammad Jaradat,
Martina Maldaner Jacobi, Ibrahim
Karayagmurlu, Ines Kasner, Sophie
Kechkin, Thomas Kern, Julia Kettenberger, Florine Kirby, Philipp Klose,
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Ronja Koch, Adrian Koeve, Marie
Kohlschreiber, Clarissa Krämer,
Stanislava Krasuyuk, Lisa Krause,
Thekla Kriltz, Viktoria Langenhuisen, Anna Leinweber, Rosalie Lochmann, Daniela Manes, Lilly Martin,
Eike Mensching, Max Merkel, Irena
Milenkovic, Britta Mödl, Philipp
Montenegro, Camille Moreau, Julia
Müller, Mieke Müllerschön, Florence
Naly, Jakob Neundorfer, Michaela
Oettinger, Michael Ozerov, Katrina
Perkone, Salma Virag Pethö-Zayed,
Dieu Minh Pham, Thuy Duong
Pham, Li Qianqian, Jiani Qu, Leonie
Claire Recksiek, Yvonne Renger, Laura Rinne, Paulina Rübenstahl, Rafael
Sabino, Michael Sahl, Carolin Sander,
Sophia Schäfer, Tobias Scheibner,
Luca Schepers, Leon Schiebenes,
Frederik Schilling, Merle Schmitt,
Luisa Schülke, Tino Schult, Vanessa
Schulze, Sophie Segert, Celine Segert,
Jennifer Siebert, Johanna Siegemund,
David Spangenberger, Sophie Spory,
Jonas Steffl, Christoph Stötzer, Veronika Straub, Annika Stuckenhoff,
Corinna Thamm, Anastasia Turcu,
Trina Ukmata, Darko Velazquez,
Thomas Vogl, Maike Vranken, Tina
Wagner, Dirk Wäsch, Tim Weinmann, Linn Wendt, Jasmine Wenzel,
Stefanie Wettmann, Sarah Weiner,
Arian Wichmann, Tim Wiezorek,
Andreas Winterling, Alexa Wittkugel, Christian Wolf, Ickert Wunderlich, Fan Xiangzhen, Haifan Yang,
Liu Yun, Di Yang, Ni Michelle Ying
Acknowledgements:
Sandra Adam, Payam Adineh, Christiane Aßmann, Marcus Baierl, Prof.
Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, André
Bernhard, Dr. Christa Billing, Ehsan
Fatehifar, Dr. Simon Frisch, Dr.
Dietlinde Fuchs, Thomas Gallitzdörfer, Fabian Gießler, Anselm Graubner, Doris Gohla, Sybille Grau, HP
Grossmann, Sascha Hagemann, Rüdiger Heerdegen, Dirk Heinje, Jörg
Heiss, Christian Hellmann, Aline
Helmcke, Wolfram Höhne, Sigrun
Höllrigl, Marco Hoffmann, Marco
von Holwede, Rainer Hoppe, Stefan
Hürdler, Torsten Jantz, Annette de
Jong, Amr Kamel, Prof. Wolfgang
Kissel, Mario Koch, Wieland Koch,
Marten Köppen, Eva Körnig, Ma-
rinus Kooistra, Irene Kopp, Stefan
Kraus, Robert Küllmer, Konrad
Lauten, Christoph Löschau, John
Michael McKenzie, Elinor Lüdde,
Sigrun Lüdde, Bodo Meister, Martin
Melcher, Wieland Mikolajczyk, Guido Naschert, Sven Opel, Nicole Ossig, Benedikt Otto, Michaela Peisker,
Jana Pfeiffer, René Platzdasch, René
Renschin, Paul Rieth, Silvia Riedel,
Susanne Rößler, Jaime Quintero
Rosales, Martin Saalfrank, Gunther
Seidel, Kai Schmitt, Jean-Claude
Schwab, Sebastian Schröder, Anja
Shaw, Hubert Sielecki, Annett Stiebritz-Stepputat, Frank Thomas, Katja
Töpel, Benjamin Trommler, Eliana
Ulrich, Catalina Giraldo Vélez, Prof.
Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, Katrin
Wanke-Hess, Philipp Wartenberg,
Hans Wastlhuber, Christiane Weber,
Stefan Weiße, Cornelia Wolf, Canan
Yilmaz, Maximilian Zwiener, the
residents of the flats in Jahnstr. 13,
Geleitstraße 4, Jakobsplan 1 and
Karl-Haußknecht-Straße 11,
and everyone else who
helped!
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Organization:
We would like to thank our public supporters:
We would like to thank our sponsors and partners:
RIP
Dietmar Bratke
Helmut Lange
Norbert Reif
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PHOTO
Sarah Eichert, Catherine Colas,
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contributions of the participants
RESPONSIBLE
Juliane Fuchs & Anne Körnig
LAYOUT
Mar G. Rodríguez
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EDITOR
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Zata Banks, Justine Bitam, HainRuey Chang, Johanna Dietrich,
Normen Fritz, Juliane Fuchs, Aline
Helmcke, Ronja Koch, Anne Körnig,
Marie Kohlschreiber, Guido Naschert, Paulina Rübenstahl, Sophie
Segert, Hubert Sielecki, Sophie Spory
TRANSLATION
Ronja Koch, Justine Bitam, Sophie
Spory, Sophie Segert, Marie Kohlschreiber, Johanna Dietrich, Paulina
Rübenstahl
COVER PICTURE
Michael Ozerov
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