screening format
35mm
aspect ratio
1.85:1
sound format
Dolby Digital
original-language
English
subtitles
German
screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
1.85:1
sound format
Dolby Digital
original-language
English
subtitles
German
Since the 1970s, scientists are conducting experiments with bizarre amusement rides to study their effects on the human brain. By using the aesthetics of a television documentary the short film takes a winking look at mankind's search for happiness and freedom.
director
Till Nowak
Animation
Till Nowak
Editing
Till Nowak
Production
Till Nowak
Script
Till Nowak
Cast
Leslie Barany, Nick Benjamin
Original Score
Francesco Rivero, Moritz Friedrich, Sergio Garcia
DOP
Ivan Robles Mendoza
Sound Design
Andreas Radzuweit, Lukas Bonewitz
Festivals
Slamdance Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany
interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
(Publikumspreis 2. Platz)
Filmfestival Münster, Germany
(Publikumspreis)
San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, San Sebastian, Spain
(Audience & Jury Award)
24fps International Short Film Festival, Abilene, USA
(Kurosawa Award for creative excellence)
Production
- Till Nowak
- http://www.framebox.de
Distribution
- Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
- Anne Jagemann
- Bodenstedtstr. 16
- 22765 Hamburg
- +49 40 39106318
- http://verleih.shortfilm.com
Sales
- Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
- Stine Wangler
- Bodenstedtstr. 16
- 22765 Hamburg
- +49 40 39106328
- http://sales.shortfilm.com
Till Nowak
Born 1980 in Bonn;
is a filmmaker and artist;
2005 graduated in media design from the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and runs his own animation studio frameboX;
is now based in Los Angeles and works on his own art projects besides big studio productions
Filmography
2005 Delivery
2011 The Centrifuge Brain Project
2015 Dissonance