Michaela Müller
Busan International Short Film Festival
Friday April 27 2018, Busan, South Korea, 15:30h
Podium Discussion at Fumetto
Dealing with the Present Day
April 15, 2018 at 3:30pm
Maskenliebhabersaal
Süesswinkel 7
6004 Luzern, Switzerland
Wars, crises, flight and migration are all issues defining our present-day. Populism and polemics have become the core of political decisions worldwide. We are confronted with fragments of these issues on a daily basis, and this mostly from afar. How do artists tackle these themes? How do they bring us closer to violence, despair or rebellion? What techniques are used in comics, animation or photo reportage to communicate these brutal realities?
Guy Delisle (CA), comic artist, Hamid Sulaiman (SYR), comic artist, Carlos Spottorno (ES), photographer, Patrick Chappatte (CH), comic artist, Michaela Müller (CH), animated filmmaker
Moderator: Lars von Törne (journalist)
Exhibition: SHELTER, DRAWN INTO CRISIS April 15 – 22
Zivilschutzanlage Sonnenberg, Berglistrasse, 6005 Luzern
https://www.fumetto.ch/en/festival/exhibitions/
Maximerat Animerat
Göteborg Film Festival (Jan 26 – Feb 5 2018)
Swedish Premiere
A fascinating exhibition of rhythmic animation in which Michaela Müller demonstrates a superb sense of color and form. She creates a strong visual composition in which light is cropped in multicolored stripes that are set into motion. The airport serves as a metaphor for the modern world where people are portrayed as the material particles they are made of. Doubtlessly one of this year’s most powerful artistic experiences within animated film.
Midhat Ajanovic
Screening Times
Jan 27 10:00h at Haga 1
Jan 29 16:30h at Haga 2
Jan 30 22:00h at Haga 2
Feb 4 20:15h at Haga 1
Special Mention for Narrative Short Film
Cut Out Festival of Animation and Digital Art, Mexico
Special Mention in Belgrade
Balkanima European Animated Film Festival
AIRPORT was awarded with a special mention “for its visual impression, innovative usage of color and animation, and its socially engaged theme” at Balkanima in October 2017.
AWARD AT FANTOCHE
Airport wins BEST SWISS at Fantoche
Annecy Animation Festival
Official Selection
Airport is part of the short film competition program
at Annecy Animation Festival, June 12 – 17 2017
