A Goat's Spell

film type animated film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2022 runtime 9'00 colour animation technique 3D computer animation
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Surround
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo

A child and their day. A conquest before breakfast, a clueless goat outside the house, a couple of promising aeroplanes up high in the sky. Then everything starts falling to pieces. The goat seems to be the link, if anything is linked at all.

director Gerhard Funk Produktion / Production Karsten Matern Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Tobias Schneider Tongestaltung / Sound Design Thomas Süßmair Animation Gerhard Funk Drehbuch / Script Gerhard Funk Schnitt / Editing Gerhard Funk Bildgestaltung / DOP Gerhard Funk
Festivals
2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
2022 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2022 ATHENS ANIMFEST, Athens, Greece
2022 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2022 Kraków Film Festival, Poland
2022 Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
2022 Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Films, Croatia
Production
  • Karsten Matern Filmproduktion
  • Karsten Matern
  • Wrangelstr. 86
  • 10997 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • +49 163 7017016
Distribution
  • Gerhard Funk Animation & Media Art
  • Gerhard Funk
  • http://www.vimeo.com/gerhardfunk
Sales
  • Karsten Matern Filmproduktion
  • Karsten Matern
  • Wrangelstr. 86
  • 10997 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • +49 163 7017016

Gerhard Funk

Gerhard Funk, born 1981 in Russia, has lived in Germany since 1995. After graduating in media arts and design from the Academy of Fine Arts Saar in 2011, he took various jobs, such as 3D artist and motion grapher. Since 2020 he has worked as an artistic associate at the Burg Giebichenstein Fine Art Academy Halle.

Filmography
2008 Streak
2009 2,5mgo
2009 Ptak
2010 Bardzo
2016 Fruit