04.03.2021 | Kurz + Innovativ" funding round
From a naval remand prison to an underwater puppet theatre: the latest meeting of the "Kurz + Innovativ" committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein was quite maritime and creative. Three short films and two innovative projects are being supported with a total of 110,000 euros.
A dance film in the Kiel naval remand prison: InSilent Routines (40,000 euros, Manusart, Hamburg) by Hamburg-based Director Petja Pulkrabek, seven factory workers try to find each other in a monotonous vision of the future through music and dance. The film will be shot between machine elements and prison cells. Both the dancers and the choreographer are from Kiel. Four days of filming are planned for the short film in Kiel and two in Hamburg.
Things get intense inReports from the Void (28,000 euros, Prinoth & Mahlknecht, Hamburg). The photo film by Hamburg-based Director Martin Prinoth asks whether it is worth risking your life as a war photographer for a photo - and to what extent these images depict reality. To this end, he follows two young war photographers on an inner journey through their photographs. A cross-media short film that works with photographs, film images, original sounds and voice-overs. Prinoth wrote the script together with Martina Mahlknecht.
In the documentary hybrid filmMy father explains our nature to me every Sunday (16,500 euros, Kirberg Motors, Berlin) by Marlene Denningmann is about a somewhat different kind of sex education workshop - because a walking bush really messes up the children's gender norms. Several days of filming are planned in a fictitious school class in Hamburg.
One title that makes you sit up and take notice comes from Wolf Malten from Lübeck.Loch Ness Immersive he wants to bring the play "Loch Ness" by the Lübeck Water Marionette Theatre to life as a 360-degree fulldome version and as a VR experience. Fundings totalling 15,500 euros are available for this innovative concept. The Committee has also approved further concept funding forElectricity (10,000 euros) by Christian Striboll from Hamburg. A comedic thriller-mockumentary that uses smartphone messengers and social media to address viewers directly and connect with them. The characters are part of a production of Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
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.
A detailed overview of all funded projects can be found here.
The funding decisions were made on 25 February by Birgit Glombitza, Ingo Mertins, Britta Schewe, Insa Wiese, Ulrich Schrauth and Arne Sommer.
Photo: Ahmad Odeh/Unsplash
