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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Mindplotter
Jan Bitzer,
Ilija Brunck,
Tom Weber,
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
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“Mindplotter” is one of six trailers that we made for the 14th International Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart in 2007. When we first began developing it, our idea—since it was to be a trailer for this kind of festival—was to create a visualization of the actual process of making the film. Though it wasn’t long until we realized we’d like to do this in an emotional and rather abstract way. To begin with we defined two basic states that are inte- gral to our work. The one is the inspirational phase in which we let our minds drift, filter and digest things from a torrent of information; the other is the work phase, in which everything we have absorbed is reproduced after being combined, altered and developed. Smooth transitions between the two states are possible and necessary, as they allow the contrast arising between the more organic process of envisioning things and the rather mechanical one of producing them to blur a bit.
Screenplay: Jan Bitzer, llija Brunck, Tom Weber; Directed by: Jan Bitzer, llija Brunck, Tom Weber; Camera: Jan Bitzer; Music: Putte; Producer: Sinje Gebauer; Animation: llija Brunck; Design: Tom Weber
ln 2004 Jan Bitzer, llija Brunck & Tom Weber (DE) began studying animation at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. In 2006 they produced "458nm" within the scope of a class called Film Design 2. In early 2007, they launched “polynoid”, a platform for presenting their portfolio and establishing contacts all under one name.