A 2012 ° 16:9 ° colour ° DCP, Dolby SRD / HDcam, Stereo ° 8 min 40 sec ° animated experimental documentary°

Film by Eni Brandner  ° Music by Christof Dienz °
supported by Innovative Film Austria°

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Impressions like flashbacks to the romantic imagination of city dwellers that their recreation areas would offer them untouched nature. Dream-like fragments, lined up with reality - a landscape which is used to supply the city.


Cars flash across the road, passing oil pumps and wind turbines, periphery and suburbs move by in accelerated speed. Through streets, along facades right into the maze of the city. The view to the horizon changes continuously in a sublime accumulation of things that are seemingly supplied in abundance. Ever changing fragments of a city, that has been growing over the centuries, dance along the streets in their varied stylistic interpretations.


'Exhaustibility' shows the dependence, as well as influences of the constant give and take of these two contrasting habitats, in order to secure their mutual benefit. Analogous forms are found in the two environments, based on their differential interpretations creating an ideological space. Idealized nature is reproduced through animated pictures.


Fast pace, change, mass consumption - they all escalate into an artificially designed landscape which constantly generates new and recycled naturalistic-like forms which ultimately are weighing in an urban wind by their freshness and colourfulness. The myth of an embossed terrestrial landscape concept is deconstructed, illusions and ingrained ideologies are rearranged and thus intensied questioned subversiviely.


- Text by Sofie Mathoi -




Festival Screenings


One Day Animation Festival - Best Austrian Animation 2012 (Audience Award 'Cutting Edge')


Animateka Ljubljana 2012 - Central European Panorama


Tricky Women 2013 - Austrian Panorama


Regensburg Short Film Week 2013 - Plattenfilme


ecoZine International Film Festival 2013 - Official Selection


CinemAmbiente Torino 2013 - Short Film Panorama


Pärnu Film Festival 2013 - International Documentary Competition


Dokufest Prizren Kosovo 2013 - International Shorts Competition


LINOLEUM Festival 2013 - Re-animation Competition


OFF Cologne 2013 - Short List


DOKUBAZAAR Ljubljana - Focus Austria


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Under the Radar / quarter 21 MQ Vienna / ASIFA - curated by Holger Lang



 

exhaustibility

© eni brandner 2017

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A 2009 ° 16:9 ° colour ° DigiBeta & BetaSP, Stereo ° 6 min ° animated experimental documentary°

Film by Eni Brandner  ° Music by Christof Dienz °
supported by Innovative Film Austria°


Granica, Grenze, Border - dividing line between two religions, two cultures - between majoritarian Serbian respectively Croatian areas. Twelve years after the end of the conflict about the 'Republic of Serbian Krajina' in the Yugoslavian/Croatian war (1991-1995),

the traces of altercation are still present.


Delapidated, destroyed houses - partly sitting right next to minefields, or in the middle of townscapes, waiting for their owners - act as unintentional memorials, warding off oblivion. The former inhabitants or their descendants/heirs return only slowly to the area rendered improvident by the Yugoslavian war. What persists are half abandoned villages and scarcely inhabited cities in the hinterland, off the beaten track, which still haven't recovered from the times of war.


Filmed in Zitnic, Drnis, Sibenik and Tepljuh (Croatia) in 2008, in locations around the area of the temporary border of the 'Republic of Serbian Krajina'. After the 'Log Revolution' in August 1990 this area became one of the focal points in the Yugoslavian/Croatian war 1991-1995.



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Stop Motion Animation

Animatic

Digital Art Direction & Title Design