(Deutsch) »Der Film ist das ideale Medium, meiner Vorstellungskraft freien Lauf zu lassen«
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»As an artist I have a voice …«
An interview with the Dutch animation artist Anna Eijsbouts. Last year, her film »Hate For Sale« won the Audience Award at the Weimar Poetry Film Festival and the ZEBRA Award for Tolerance. Anna tells us about how she became an animation director and gives us an insight into the making of her poetry film. Aline Helmcke: Your animated short film »Hate For Sale« investigates what makes hate so tempting to the human kind. This film seems very relevant in a time where we have to deal with the fact that hatred is growing to a frightening extent in our society. Was there a specific incident or personal event that made you choose this topic for your film? Anna Eijsbouts: Well, it just felt like the world as a whole was going down a spiral: Trump, the refugee crisis, women’s rights being questioned and taken away worldwide, democracy being tainted by extremely subjective news sources. As an artist I have a voice and in the words of Nina Simone a duty, so I knew that the …
(Deutsch) Jandl ist wie LEGO
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Mut zur Leere
Ein Interview mit der Leipziger Animationskünstlerin Urte Zintler. Ihr Poesiefilm »Leerstelle« (2016) basiert auf Gedichten der Lyrikerin Hilde Domin.
Zur Zukunft des ZEBRA
Am Donnerstag beginnt das ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster/Berlin. Wir befragten Thomas Wohlfahrt, den Initiator des ZEBRA und Leiter des Berliner Hauses für Poesie, zur Entwicklung des Poetryfilms und zur Zukunft des Festivals, das ab 2019 jährlich in Berlin stattfinden soll.
Zeitlicht
Ein Werkstattgespräch mit der Berliner Künstlerin und Filmemacherin Betina Kuntzsch
»ich vergleiche das programmieren oft mit dem schreiben«
Ein Interview mit Jörg Piringer
»How else would we describe all those in-between things?«
An interview with Nayeem Mahbub. Last year, his film »Continental Drift« opened the 1st Weimar Poetry Film Award. In the interview, Nayeem talks about studying filmmaking and how the film was made.
Jakob Kirchheim im Interview
»Genau darin liegt die Spannung. Man darf sich nie wirklich sicher sein, dass man ganz und gar versteht, was man wahrnimmt.«
»He’d created something special.«
An interview with Dave Tynan, director of HEARTBREAK and which got a special mention at the Weimar Poetryfilm Competiton 2017.