AUGUST: A harbinger of heatstroke and heartache, this animated film, interwoven with excerpts from Olivia Lehnert's poetry, follows a young adult through snapshots of summer liminality

RELAX! follows Noah's attempted journey to relaxation. During his day at a futuristic spa he is lead through different therapies by the AI robot Ai.leen. However, her priority is speed and efficiency.

Based on Franz Kafka's story MR. KORBES, the objects in the protagonist's apartment suddenly seize power. The reason they turn against their owner remains an unresolved mystery, creating an atmosphere of alienation and unease.

Typography and text are the source material. Words are broken down into their parts, animated, reassembled, and dissolved into ornamental textures. In this dark dream the written word travels through, absorbs, and opens up to the visual and textual representations of digital spaces.

The typographic animation portrays war as the enemy of humanity, using fragments from Ernst Jandl's onomatopoeic poem schtzngrmm. The motifs symbolize the body and psyche, with heart and brain destroyed by hissing sounds reminiscent of grenades and gunfire, shattered by the sounds of war.

Tina Frank asked GPT-4 about the basic functions of slime to translate these into conceptual foundations for instructions. The principle of "Self-Healing / Robust Algorithms" was chosen. A circle is split into two, moves apart, and then returns, symbolizing an abstract form of healing.

A hand-painted animation exploring the boundary between dream and reality. A shadowy figure travels through surreal landscapes, transforming into animals and states, encountering dark and hopeful moments.

Public graffiti walls carry decades of hidden cultural and political history within their layers of paint. Whether seen from an aesthetic or philosophical perspective, unraveling the past seems essential to avoid repeating mistakes.

One of Schwitters' poems from the album DOPPELMOPPEL - Poems by Kurt Schwitters is transformed into stunning experimental sound-poetry eruptions, combined with a remarkable visual composition using individual images, stop-motion, and various forms of collage.

Using digital archives of real data, the project focuses on plants that have disappeared from Austria, as listed in the Red List. AI transforms photographs of these extinct species into 3D models, creating a virtual garden that reflects the shifting biodiversity in an age of environmental crisis.

Quinn has a magical fridge that is constantly filled with new exotic delicacies. Her life revolves around luxury, pleasure and ecstasy. Only when the fridge seems to be broken she is forced to take a closer look at it. Quinn begins to take it apart and discovers the source of the apparent magic.