Life and its abysses

09.12.2020 | Funding decision Kurz + Innovativ

In its last funding session of the year, the "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded around 150,000 euros to six projects. The funding round includes the new stop-motion work by the Lauenstein brothers and hard film material by Hille Norden from Kiel.

Stop-motion "Made in Hamburg": In the short film77 Life (37,000 euros, Lauenstein & Lauenstein Produktion, Hamburg), the two animation gurus Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein take a cross-sectional look into a high-rise building that is full of bustling activity. A panopticon of human shortcomings, presented with bitter humour. The film will have 135 animation days in the Hanseatic city.

Directors and Script Writer Hille Norden from Kiel, Germany, deals withFire play (35,000 euros, Hanfgarn & Ufer Nord, Hamburg) with the theme of paedophilia: Oskar knows that he is a paedophile. Under no circumstances does he want to become a perpetrator and stays away from children. This works well until his best friend Maik brings his seven-year-old daughter Lilli round to see him. In order not to harm her or himself, he finds an unusual solution. The short film was shot in Schleswig-Holstein. Hille Norden recently won the Schleswig-Holstein Screenplay Award 2020.

This essayistic portrait is about the Hamburg deserter Ludwig Baumann, who died three years agoLife (30,000 euros) by filmmaker Annette Ortlieb. Baumann did not want to kill for the Wehrmacht, he was supposed to die for it - and fought against the judgement in court for the rest of his life. There is an experimental short film about gravitational waves, music and sound by Annika Kahrs from Hamburg withGravity's tune (21,000 euros). HFBK graduate and Deichkind music video producer Timo Schierhorn is planning a somewhat different film about animals withAn animal film (20,000 euros), in which the Hamburg artist combines night shots of animals with sound recordings made by his grandfather.

In the innovative projectInside the SpiceVR team from Hamburg allows users to immerse themselves interactively in the human body. SpiceVR is cooperating with the DESY Institute in Hamburg for this VR experience. The concept is being funded with 10,000 euros.

A detailed overview of the funding decisions made by the "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee can be found here.

The "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee of the FFHSH promotes both short films and innovative audiovisual formats from XR experiences to 360-degree films and immersive story worlds.

The funding decisions were made on 25 November by Birgit Glombitza, Ralph Heinsohn, Ingo Mertins, Britta Schewe, Insa Wiese and Arne Sommer.

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