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Diopter Zero

new film type animated film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2026 runtime 4'40 colour Color, animation technique 3D computer animation
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo

DIOPTER ZERO is inspired by a recurring childhood memory, recontextualized through the popularity of contemporary digital aesthetics, such as liminal space and dreamcore. As a child undergoing vision tests from time to time, I experienced and was somehow obsessed with how my way of seeing and how my focus were directed by medical technological systems, as well as by the structure of the target image itself: a shared visual memory among many vision-impaired people looking into an autorefractor.

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director canvaswan Sound Design xueqing yu Production canvaswan / Script canvaswan / Editing canvaswan / DOP canvaswan / Cast canvaswan / Szenenbild / Production Design canvaswan / Original Score canvaswan / Animation canvaswan / film school Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
School
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Heumarkt 14
  • 50667 Köln
  • Germany
  • +49 221 201890
  • http://www.khm.de
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canvaswan

Canvaswan is a Cologne-based researcher and multimedia practitioner with a lineage of inquiry into digital media, digital representation, and technological and artificial visuality.

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2026 Diopter Zero