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Die Vielfalt des Animationsfilms bildet sich in drei Frau-Mann-Paarungen exemplarisch ab. Es beginnt experimentell mit der KI-unterstützten Arbeit THE END zur Technologiegeschichte des Kinos, die mit Paper Trail auf eine ungewöhnlich visualisierte Lebensgeschichte trifft. Der Blick ist auf Osteuropa gerichtet, wenn Paradaïz Kriegstraumata aufarbeitet und sich in How eine verwandte Stimmungslage auf metaphysischer Ebene entfaltet. Vom Umgang mit Krebs erzählt Im Auto Tapes und Butterbrot realitätsnah, während der Oscar-gekrönte La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles im märchenhaft Metaphorischen angesiedelt ist. (tr)

The diversity of animated film regarding different parameters is exemplified by three male-female pairings.It begins experimentally with the AI-supported work THE END, which explores the technological history of cinema. PAPER TRAIL then presents an unusually visualized life story. The focus shifts to Eastern Europe when PARADAÏS grapples with war trauma, while HOW unfolds a related mood on a metaphysical level. WITH TAPES AND TOAST IN THE CAR realistically portrays the experience of cancer, while the Oscar-winning THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS is rooted in fairytale metaphor.

Cinema itself becomes a haunted machine: projectors whir, cameras click, curtains glide open onto a restless, shifting space where silhouettes morph between shadow play and lifelike figures. An audience finally appears—only to sit entranced in VR headsets, as the theater becomes a relic from a speculative AI future. Between cinematic nostalgia and dystopian hallucination, The End explores the speculative future of cinema in an era shaped by artificial intelligence.

In Paper Trail, Don Hertzfeldt compresses an entire life into a high-speed stream of drawings, notes and documents—a life seen only through pieces of paper. Across 14 minutes, newly developed animation techniques shape the film’s look and pace, turning everyday scraps into an urgent portrait of a human existence.

Welcome to a place where the houses have holes, tomatoes are ticking time bombs and snails wander the streets in search of a safe space. In Paradaïz, Sarajevo-born artist Matea Radic uses absurdist animation, archival images and her own slippery childhood memories to explore the real meaning of home.

Through the opening between reality and subtle poetic forms, surreal scenes and thrilling paradoxes reveal endless loops of existence.

In With Tapes and Toasts in the Car, Shari learns after a long illness that she has only a few months left to live and feels unable to face her family. In an attempt to escape reality, the sky collapses above her and she finds herself drifting through space, guided by cosmonaut dog Laika through stages of denial, fear and letting go. As her body seems to dissolve into stardust, Shari understands how …

A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.