Franz Winzentsen

Handbrushes, collected from the rubble in the ruins of a former ship's propeller factory, have grown beaks. In a conference they connect the built-in obsolescence and the belief in economic progress with the moon.

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A diary-like collection of short film clips lasting two to three minutes, created using single-frame recording techniques at the animation table using various techniques, some of which involve phase animation.

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Escape attempt - An error of nature.

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A narrator meets a broom maker, a photographer dreams of pictures, a cook loses himself in a fantasy world.

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A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma which arose when the frontier between East and West Germany was erased. "The Border" delivers an intelligent study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head.

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Fabian is a disaster researcher. He wants to investigate the demise of the Golden Loom, a once-flourishing culture centered around the weaving of the sacred carpet. In its late phase, a carpet industry dominated the country until it was liberated from the all-consuming Carpet Authority and its huge factory by a catastrophe. Fabian travels to the sites of the past culture. There he meets descendants and survivors of the catastrophe. With their help, he writes his research report. An unspecified incident in his homeland prevents him from returning. By marrying a young weaver, he eventually becomes related to all the people he met during his research and becomes an employee of the local carpet museum.

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The son of a photographer chasing his dream of life in a deserted harbor area is reminded by a chance acquaintance that he loves the same type of woman as his father. When the New Yorker discovers her father's work, she begins to tell new stories with the old pictures, while the man is reminded of the past reality.

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The queen of the black market is my grandmother, as I imagined her in the post-war period, but also her favorite coffee pot, which escaped from my grandmother and mysteriously survived violent attacks.

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A Cinetrakt, created shortly after the reactor disaster in Chornobyl. A quote from a nuclear manager is dissected. The result is 'Abschalten' (Shut Down), created shortly after Chornobyl, which uses photos by Günther Zint to show how the state and the electricity industry are conducting discussions with opponents of nuclear power about the Brockdorf nuclear power plant. The film uses photos, titles, landscapes distorted in the camera, and music.

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Inspired by a visit to the mines of Falun, the film depicts dreamlike movements through a fictional mine, composed of images from several ore mines in Sweden and Germany.

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Three times before my conception, I should have been allowed to take a look at the world. Twice I was allowed to refuse to be born and wait for another time. The third time, I had to let myself be carried out. I can remember fragments of the trial trip that resulted in my birth. I wanted to travel to Germany on a steamboat. Using authentic visual material—mainly photos—the film describes this trip to Germany in 1938.

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A German Film Award winning short animation about endangered hedgehogs.

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Figures in a side-scrolling landscape.

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A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

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Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

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A short film by Franz Winzentsen

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A film drawn and dubbed by children in a 6th grade class, animated by Franz Winzentsen.

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A journey through the history of German animated film from 1920 to 1960, spanning the avant-garde beginnings, the emigrants, the time in the Third Reich and cinema in both German states after 1945.

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A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma which arose when the frontier between East and West Germany was erased. "The Border" delivers an intelligent study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head.

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The son of a photographer chasing his dream of life in a deserted harbor area is reminded by a chance acquaintance that he loves the same type of woman as his father. When the New Yorker discovers her father's work, she begins to tell new stories with the old pictures, while the man is reminded of the past reality.

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An expedition report (a winter sailing trip down the Elbe), and a document about filmmakers who leave a city because it's more hospitable elsewhere, reflections, reflexes.

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Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it. What Nekes manages there with landscape, as a cunning and quote many fine artist in a medium that runs in time, as he defeated the time changed, by themselves for change of scenery uses, as it interferes with the laws of chronology through the rewind ability of the camera or destroyed, which is a compelling and highly aesthetic experimental company.

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A female figure wanders inside a warehouse interior and through various motifs, including a fan and a birdcage, set to a medieval chant.

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Handbrushes, collected from the rubble in the ruins of a former ship's propeller factory, have grown beaks. In a conference they connect the built-in obsolescence and the belief in economic progress with the moon.

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A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma which arose when the frontier between East and West Germany was erased. "The Border" delivers an intelligent study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head.

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The son of a photographer chasing his dream of life in a deserted harbor area is reminded by a chance acquaintance that he loves the same type of woman as his father. When the New Yorker discovers her father's work, she begins to tell new stories with the old pictures, while the man is reminded of the past reality.

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A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

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Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.

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A film drawn and dubbed by children in a 6th grade class, animated by Franz Winzentsen.

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