THE CHIMERA OF M.
2014 Films
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25m
Entering the already unfamiliar virtual space of a stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and distinctly unreliable protagonist, so evasive that he and his motives can hardly be identified. Arriving by train at a town where he had once lived, he moves through the old haunts seemingly attempting to re-engage with two abandoned relationships, one with a man, one with a woman, yet frequently appearing simply to become more engaged with quotidian objects made hallucinatory by close scrutiny. The very fractured and expressive manifestation of the three-dimensional space in this stereoscopic film, combined with the protagonist’s point of view, puts the viewers inside these contorted relationships. The pounding and intimate interactions of the characters have to be endured, by being pushed through each situation locked into the identity of someone who refuses to participate or maybe even to be.
Direction: Sebastian Buerkner
Script: Sebastian Buerkner, John Mosely
Animation: Sebastian Buerkner, Peter Caires, Timothy Divall, Natalie Rose Young
Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann
Cast: Micheal Grime, James French, Martina Schmücker
Original Title: THE CHIMERA OF M.
Original Language: English
Film Production Country: United Kingdom
Biography of the Director/s
Sebastian Buerkner (born 1975 in Berlin, Germany) lives and works in London. He completed an MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2002 and was awarded their Fellowship Residency 2003.
From 2004 his art practice has shifted exclusively to animation.
Recent solo shows include Kunsthaus im KunstkulturQuartier Nuremberg, Germany;
Tramway, Glasgow; Sketch, London; The Showroon Gallery, London; Whitechapel Project Space; London and LUX at Lounge Gallery, London; Art on the Underground, Screen at Canary Wharf, London.
He has also participated in group shows and screenings at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, London; Tate Liverpool; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, London and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. His film Purple Grey (2006) was broadcast as part of AnimateTV on Channel 4. This year he won the Tiger Award for his latest film ‘The Chimera of M.” the at the Intenational Film Festival Rotterdam.
Awards Won
Tiger Award Shorts IFFR Rotterdam 2014
Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2014
World Sales:
LUX
Benjamin Cook
18 Shacklewell Lane
London, E8 2EZ, United Kingdom
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0)20 7503 3980
Website: http://www.lux.org.uk/
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