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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.
Love & Theft
The film “Love & Theft” was created out of the sheer joy of animation. The permanent change in the characters is intended to create continuous bafflement, yet leaving ample room for the audience’s imagination.
The movie was realized without script nor concept, just through the process of realization. It seemed important to keep my own personality completely outside the work by just expressing myself through my ancestors in art.
Technically, everything was realized in classical cartoon animation, because only in that medium is permanent transformation possible by relatively simple means. In other words: there is nowhere where cheating is so easy as in animated cartoons.
The movie was realized without script nor concept, just through the process of realization. It seemed important to keep my own personality completely outside the work by just expressing myself through my ancestors in art.
Technically, everything was realized in classical cartoon animation, because only in that medium is permanent transformation possible by relatively simple means. In other words: there is nowhere where cheating is so easy as in animated cartoons.
Andreas Hykade (DE), born in 1968. From 1988-1990 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, followed by studies at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from 1992 to 1995. Since 1992 he has been working as a freelance film maker and since 2000 as a professor of animation at the Kassel School of Arts and Design. His films include: “The King is Dead” (1990), “We Lived in Grass” (1995), “Ring of Fire” (2000), “Tom & the Slice of Bread with Strawberry Jam & Honey” (series, since 2003), “The Runt” (2006), “The Bunjes” (2007), and “Love & Theft” (2010).