Private Project

HYPER ZONE

The film deals, among other things, with the process of transformation and new beginnings. Life means change. Nothing remains as it once was. On display is a zone that is an arena of constant mental and material border crossings.
The film is metamorphic on several levels: The story, the characters, the images, the music, and the landscape.
In some scenes, ritual dance and battle improvisations are presented. Among other things, the ecstasy of the performance gives rise to the awareness of newly coded identities, which also unfold in the search for a more sustainable, different way of life. The relationships between humans, mycelia, animals, non-living beings and bots interweave in a social, abstract, ecstatic experiment.
The change also takes place in the characters. They wake up from a preserved, mummified state and change genders or grow together with tree roots. The only constant in the Hyper Zone is transformation, which is associated with pain.

  • Ana Hofmann
    Director
  • Ana Hofmann
    Producer
  • Ana Hofmann
    Writer
  • Martina Momo Kunz
    Key Cast
    "Two-Face"
  • Benjamin Spinnler
    Key Cast
    "Two-Face"
  • Tim Bettermann
    Key Cast
    "Mycelia"
  • Aline Petro
    Key Cast
    "Mycelia"
  • Benjamin Burger
    Key Cast
    "Bot "
  • Songhay Toldon
    Key Cast
    "Bot "
  • Fabienne Watzke
    Key Cast
    "Replika"
  • Rebeka Mondovics
    Key Cast
    "Replika"
  • Ana Hofmann
    Editing
  • Felix Hergert
    Editing
  • Pascal Lund-Jensen
    Music and sound design
  • Jürgen Kupka
    Color-grading
  • Henriette Frederike Herm
    Costumes
  • Simon Bitterli
    Camera
  • Michael Schwendinger
    Camera
  • Silvana Büsch
    Make-up
  • Nina Zogg
    Make-up
  • Dimitri Stapfer
    Dramaturgical advice and coaching performers
  • Rebeka Mondovics
    Choreography group 2
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Completion Date:
    October 20, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Switzerland
  • Country of Filming:
    Switzerland
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, URSA mini, Sony alpha
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Ana Hofmann

Ana Hofmann is a visual artist based in Zurich. After a bachelor's degree in social and film sciences, Ana Hofmann (1987) studied art at the Zurich University of the Arts in the master's program. With her cinematic art works she creates fictional characters and explores the relationships between humans, animals, plants, mushrooms etc. and also the non-living in form of experimental narratives. She works as an artist and photographer at the intersection of film, photography, sound and sculpture. Since 2018 she has been lecturing at the F+F School of Art and Design. In 2019 she spent half a year in New York during a studio grant of the city of Zurich. Various exhibitions at home and abroad, including: Art Basel Hong Kong, Rare Art Festival NYC, Kunsthalle Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich.

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Director Statement

In my art I cultivate a planetary approach, I try to show perspectives, away from the human-centered view of the world to more sensitivity for other living beings and non-living beings. Current discourses such as posthumanism, technologization and identity politics, flow into my art.

I work conceptually with terms from philosophy, physics and psychology and am interested in different forms and relationship patterns in organic, artificial and digital living environments, as well as their narrative potential. I create fictional characters and narratives, which I show often as multimedia installations. My work is not tied to a specific medium, usually the content determines the medium, but one main strand is the cinematic narrative.

Art has always reacted to its time. It acts as a mirror of social and political conditions and makes some things visible that cannot yet be named. Also, in the multitude of artistic positions there are always tendencies that close to larger contexts.