Programme
If one thinks back for example to the Kinetoscope, it becomes clear that animated film is older than cinema itself, and yet it embodies the essence of the art form in the way it creates movement from stasis and brings things to life via projection onto a surface. Although sceptics have often accused it of not representing “reality”, and therefore being somehow less than “true cinema”, it is precisely this abstraction that enables animated film to address the fundamental dilemmas of our existence. The freedom to compose illustrations at will means there are no limits to the form the former can take. Thus, animated film devotes itself to questions concerning the nature of our surroundings, our collective existence, to investigations into movement in general, while depicting that which the film camera can never capture.
