shortfilm, 2020
“How to ride a mechanical bull, and not care that everyone is imagining you naked”
An 8 minute short, commissioned by “Deutsche Filmakademie” in cooperation with
the German Federal Foreign Office celebrating the European Parliament Presidency 2020.
It will premier in January 2021 and will be released online shortly after. You can see a trailer above.
Director: Alma Buddecke
2D Animation: Christoph Sarow
3D Animation: Ferdinand Ehrhardt
Producer: Felix Schreiber, Stella Markert
Cinematography: Sebastian Ganschow
Editor: Vreni Sarnes
Production Designer: Hannah Siegfried
Hair and Makeup: Charlotte Fleck
Sound: Kevin Sliwinski, Johann Meis
Cast:
Aggy K. Adams
Pieter Tredoux
Jan Wollenschläger
Michael Gaedt
Unit Manager: Leopold Pape
1st AD: Lea Lembke
Steadicam Operator: Johannes Ziegler
1st AC: Flu Popow
Gaffer: Wesley Salamone
Grip: Alexander Birzele
Car Rigging: Jörn Kloos
Camcar Driver: Jonathan Heidrich
Electrician: Jakob Guntermann
Color Grading: Delfina Mayer
VFX Artist: Sebastian Ganschow
Motion Design: Dennis Hölscher
Illustration: Julia Scala
A lot of things changed afterward after the outbreak corona pandemic, forced us to get back to the central ideas of the topic. I used the first lockdown to draw out a animatic of the pre-corona script version to keep myself busy and to find out how the whole essayistic concept would work. Also I enjoyed getting back to drawing.