Private Project

LEERSTELLE

a woman, a road, the outland

The non-narrative animated film is a poetic debate with the issue of "HOME" and the experience of the outland as a new home. A collage of fragments of Hilde Domin´s poems and a concentration and overlay of sketchy drawings and sound elements - always incomplete, always close to disappearance. It describes the search for an inner place of calm - a timeless space of deceleration.

“One must be able to part
and still be like a tree:
the roots remaining in the ground,
landscape passing and we are fixed."
(Hilde Domin)

  • Urte Zintler
    Director
  • Urte Zintler
    Producer
  • Anna Hopperdietz
    Key Cast
  • Urte Zintler
    Writer
  • Tobias Böhm
    Sound
  • Christian Wittmoser
    Sound
  • Karlheinz Essl
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    LEERSTELLE
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 1, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Kurzsuechtig (short film festival Leipzig)
    Leipzig / Germany
    April 6, 2016
    Festival Premiere / world
    jury award - animation
Director Biography - Urte Zintler

1975 born in Rostock / Germany
1994 High school graduation in Rostock
Trained as animation cartoonist at LTAM in Luxembourg
Studied in animation class at SIAD in Farnham /GB und Kunsthochschule Kassel,
Studied Graphic Arts/Illustration at HGB in Leipzig/Germany
2009 Graduated from Kassel School of Art and Design “with honors”
Freelance practice as Character Animator throughout Germany
2015 Founded Animation Studio "Federfisch Animation" in Leipzig

Animator/Film auteur and character animator for motion picture, short film and TV animation productions in hand-drawn, 2D digital and 3D, Senior Lecturer at the Animation Institute of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Visiting Lecturer for Character Animation and Character Design at Kassel School of Art and Design and HOWL, tutor at TP2.

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"One must be able to part
and still be like a tree:
the roots remaining in the ground,
landscape passing and we are fixed."
(Hilde Domin)