Trespass

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2012 Duration: 11 mins.

Synopsis: In English, “trespass” means to intrude, but it could also be an unauthorized entry, or in legal jargon, a “domestic disturbance.” ‘Trespass’ (2012), Paul Wenninger’s ten-minute real-animation film plays with all of these meanings in a technically impressive, varied, and precise tour de force.

Credits:

Direction: Paul Wenninger

Writers: Paul Wenninger

Production: Kabinett ad Co., KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production

Animation: Paul Wenninger e Nik Hummer

Sound: Nik Hummer

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Uncanny Valley

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2015 Duration: 13 mins.

Synopsis: In ‘Uncanny Valley’ (2015) we experience the intense psychological and physical battle fought between desperate soldiers during World War I. This film develops a dramaturgy of the image, a stuttering picture that interrupts the narrative structure of the scenic sequence. Each frame of this animated live-action piece reveals its own painful yet detailed moment, resistant to the synthetic image of history. The culminating effect of the narrative performance reveals the numbing futility of war, the agony of conflict and survival, the discovery of brotherhood, and madness of it all.

Credits:

Direction: Paul Wenninger

Writers: Paul Wenninger

Production: Kabinett ad Co, Films de Force Majeure, KGP Filmproduktion

Animation: Nik Hummer

Sound: Nik Hummer e Michael Moser

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Dead Reckoning

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2016 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: A meditation on bad luck. Two animated manifestations of one character interact as he abides by the rule: “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die”. Represented in corporeal form by pixelated live-action, our character journeys through a city. After falling on hard times, a drawn emergence of his mortality guides him to his final destination.

Credits:

Direction: Paul Wenninger, Susan Young

Writers: Paul Wenninger e Susan Young

Animation: Paul Wenninger e Susan Young

Music: Elektro Guzzi

Sound: Amann Studios Wien

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

O

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2021 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: A dancer-turned-filmmaker avoids unnecessary movement in a villa in Brittany, embodying a state described by Paul Virilio as “Polar Inertia”. Frame by frame by frame, Paul Wenninger makes the rounds, standing still, in an initially completely empty salon, with his back perpetually turned to the walls – and above all, to the windows. A stormy time seems to fly by while the relationship between outside and inside gets shaken up, even if the exterior views granted to the observer largely consist of projections: trees, beaches, parks shot in high-speed, time-lapse mode.

Credits:

Direction: Paul Wenninger

Writers: Paul Wenninger

Production: Paul Wenninger, Kabinett ad Co

Animation: Paul Wenninger

Music: Peter Jakober

Sound: Michael Derrossett

Distribution: Sixpack

Age Classification: M/12

Slow as Light

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2022 Duration: 9 mins.

Synopsis: In interaction with ‘Engelsam, en jeu’, a choreographic piece conceived by Katja Fleig in 2018, the film explores the sharp and uneven facets of a crossing of bodies – captured in the real world and simultaneously seen through the prism of a transcendental imaginary construction.

Credits:

Direction: Paul Wenninger

Writers: Paul Wenninger

Animation: Paul Wenninger

Age Classification: M/12