33/66 Shortfilm Animation [Stills]

Festival Submission Ongoing

2025

This four-chapter animation approaches the digital age as a terrain of algorithmic control, in which the status quo itself becomes subject to critique. Moving between drone perspectives, digital map boundaries, and hallucinatory image spaces, the work constructs a condensed, fragmentary narrative on exclusion, data labor, and structural bias, merging theoretical reflection with an interface-inspired visual language.
The self-produced sound design unfolds as an additional narrative layer, mirroring the mechanics of algorithmic systems while oscillating between tension and relief, allowing the work to move from critical density toward a quietly affirmative note.

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Ya Playin Yaself – Musikvideo for Dogpatrol [Stills]

Festival Submission Ongoing

2025

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Conceptually, we aimed to preserve a technically playful yet experimental approach. As in our previous collaborative projects, the work was intended to be realized in the form of an animation.
For the sequence of scenes, we selected three distinct locations, each featuring loop-like sequences. These three locations are connected by a character who appears to move endlessly in circles. Through the motif of drinking, we sought to illustrate a negatively impactful pattern of repetition, symbolizing the recurring cycle of habits and behavioral patterns. Step by step, stone upon stone, within the endless cycle of life.

DONKEY 1111 Shortfilm Animation [Stills]

Unfinished

2024

This animation represents an advanced experimental phase in which various workflows were combined and realized using AI-based systems. It explores the cycle and the unstoppable progression of technology, accepting any potential consequences that may arise along the way.
The project is structured into four chapters, conceived as narratively fragmentary yet visually cohesive segments. Together, they outline the forward momentum of technological development and reflect on its possible implications.

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Kleines Solo – Musikvideo for Brucie B

2022

Commissioned work for the musician Brucie B. As part of a scholarship program, he composed a musical setting of the poem “Kleines Solo” by Erich Kästner. I was commissioned to create an animated music video as an interpretation of his adaptation. In this sense, the film functions as a visual interpretation of the poem.
Recurring fragments of time, trapped within one’s own thoughts, caught in loops. A variation of the self with itself, yet still confined within a cycle. Sometimes, all it takes is a small distance to begin recognizing the patterns that continuously reappear.

© 2026 [Takato Wankmüller]