A conversation with camerawoman and Studio Tatyana co-founder Tatyana Loginova from September 2024 in preparation for a Forum & Friends event, adapted for film by Christiane Büchner. For technical reasons, the organisers were only able to capture an audio recording of the conversation – this recording has been supplemented by animated sequences from Christiane Büchner as well as video footage, photographs and documents from the following sources: the Hildegard Westbeld Collection in the archive of Kinothek Asta Nielsen and the private archives of Alla Tkatchenko and Tatyana Loginova.
An explosive love story is an animated short film about two hunters who fall in love. Despite their passion, they cannot bring themselves to accept their feelings.
Amidst mountains of scrap metal, two small robots, 12 and 08, undertake a crazy challenge: to build a tower towards the light to escape the darkness of the “Square Hole”.
Two ant brothers, who have always been at the bottom of their kingdom's hierarchy, discover a taste for blood and power. Driven by hunger and a thirst for destruction, nothing seems able to stop their chaotic rise to power.
A boy in love with a girl goes to her house but things don't go well. Upon returning home, the boy meets a talaia, one of the beings that live in the forest. Eager for company, he takes the talaia home, but the unusual creature will only have one thing on his mind, returning to his friends.
For over a decade, Jason (25) has secretly been in love with his best friend Niels (25). He knows his feelings will never be reciprocated, but struggles to let go. Jason is forced to confront his unrequited love when Niels reveals something to him he doesn't want to hear.
a short animation conceived through the collaboration of three visual artists — Diane Christiansen, Jessie Mott, and Alejandra Trigoso — that stages a volatile theater of bodies in flux. Within a shifting frame, cut-out fragments of animals and humans slip in and out of view, forming and unforming as creatures that vomit, expel, and rearrange their own parts. The work resists stable form, instead embracing mutation, rupture, and play as its guiding principles. The soundtrack is composed by artist-musician duo Diane Christiansen and Steve Dawson with an exuberantly eclectic, “everything but the kitchen sink” sensibility, that mirrors this unruly choreography—layering clamor, rhythm, and unexpected sonic textures. Together, image and sound conjure a surreal pageant of grotesque humor and unsettling vitality, where the boundaries between species, bodies, and objects dissolve into a restless state of becoming.
The film puts the viewer in a state of mind that reflects what it might be like to receive a terrible diagnosis. Who am I if an important part of me can no longer be lived?
Stuck in a sticky flytrap. Frozen in a block of ice. Doomcrolling trough his past. This surreal mixed media short film follows its pitiful protagonist as he finds his way out.