A genius musician lives a lonely life in a surreal, floating world. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert hall, but there is nobody to listen. One day his animated world collapses and he must face reality. He only has one wish: to share his music with his daughter, but her mother doesn‘t allow it.

Direction: Till Nowak

Script: Till Nowak

Production: Till Nowak, Till Nowak

Cinematography: Ivan Robles Mendoza

Editing: Philipp Hahn, Till Nowak

Production Design: Till Nowak

Animation: Till Nowak, Malte Lauinger

Costume Design: Heidrun Schwantge

Sound: Andreas Radzuweit

Original Score: Olaf Taranczewski, Frank Zerban

Cast: Roland Schupp, Nina Petri, Hannah Heine, Klaus Zehrfeld, Leslie Barany, Mirko Thiele

Original Title: DISSONANCE

Original Languages: English, German

Subtitles: English

Film Production Country: Germany

Website: www.framebox.com

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/tillnowaksdissonance

Statement of the Director/s
Who owns reality? Who defines where fantasy begins? DISSONANCE seamlessly transforms from an animation into a live action drama, reflecting the mental journey of a psychotic poor street musician. DISSONANCE was made to radically challenge the known borders of film genres and unite different cinematic worlds through storytelling.

Biography of the Director/s
Till Nowak is a digital artist, designer and filmmaker, born in 1980. Since 1999 he works as a professional computer graphics artist on his own independent projects and for high profile clients. Till graduated 2005 in media design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. He recently moved from Hamburg to Los Angeles. Tills work has been exhibited in hundreds of international film festivals, featured in books and at SIGGRAPH 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011 and was awarded with more than 70 awards, for example in Annecy, Moscow, Aspen and at the AFI Fest Hollywood. Besides his studio work Till has given lectures about his workflows in international events, such as universities in Korea, Germany and Australia, at the 361° conference in Mumbai and the NIFFF in Neuchatel and worked as jury member in various film festivals.

Awards Won
"Grand Prix" Anima Mundi, "Best Animation" Aspen Shortsfest, "Don Quixote Award" Krakow IFF, "Best Original Music" Annecy Int'l Animation FF, "Canal+ Award" Cinema Jove Valencia

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