CSM studio work
While I’m working in my first year with the Vietnam pop maps on something non-digital I was kind of missing motion design a bit. The research on information design and map making led me to these two short animations. The above one is a representation of a structure of cohesive mountains in the Swiss Alps [...]
Ichisichisichisich
‘Ichisichisichisich’ is a music video that was produced by Sir ja sir in cooperation with comic artist Christopher “Piwi” Tauber for a competition of the German rap formation Die Fantastischen Vier. Their song of the same name was the second single of their 2007 album ‘Fornika’. Our submission reached the last 20 contestants.
The production took [...]
Immergut Festival 2007
The Immergut Festival, named after its early main sponsor, a dairy company, in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, is like the family meeting of the German speaking independent scene and the first festival of the year at the same time. Once a year about 5,000 fans meet at the little town close the picturesque lake district of Mecklenburg. [...]
26/20 (SOL Where Is It?)
In a reproductive world men and machines own a native faultiness. These immanent faulty designs separate the particular partner in the overall system, the human-machine universe. ‘26/20 (SOL Where is it?)’ visualises the isolation and the loss of power in an unlocatable space of faultiness. Thereby the consequence of an error, the accident, is excluded, [...]
It covers the hillside
‘It covers the hillside’ was meant to be a live visualisation for the Texan folk rockers Midlake. Unfortunately they never used it on stage. The basis of the kaleidoscopic film are about a dozen Creative Commons movies of the Prelinger Archive.
‘It covers the hillside’ 11/2006; 03:15 mins; PAL 16/9
Break the hood & Freedom fighter
Both micro movies ‘Freedom Fighter’ and ‘Break the hood’ are a Sir ja sir production. ‘Freedom Fighter’ is about a hero who saves the world in an unconventional way. In the second clip, ‘Break the Hood’, break dancers are taking over the city. ‘Break the hood’ won the first price at the 2007 O2 Mobile [...]
Imprisoned rappers
‘Imprisoned Rappers’ is the working title of a documentary about a group of five rapping young men, their everyday life behind bars and an alluring career in the music business. We escorted them for one day to their second concert at all. Tensions were high as this concert of all places should be in the [...]
Go up in smoke
‘Go up in smoke’ is a music video for the Frankfurt group Good Heart Boutique. Another joint project with the comic artist Christopher “Piwi” Tauber. For the shooting we used 20 years old vintage pro-VHS-cameras to get this unique lo-fi 80s music show look. It successfully fitted together with the rough garage sound of the [...]
Panzer
‘Panzer’ was the practical part of my BA dissertation in European Media Studies. It is a music video for a song of the same name of the Mediengruppe Telekommander. The theoretical component was an inventory control of music videos entitled “Machine guns in the picture stream – music videos and the war”. ‘Panzer’ montages hundreds [...]