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Rope Dance | Seiltänzer | La danza della corda

Raimund Krumme
Germania | 1986 | 9’43’’

Two figures, one old one young, tied with a rope, move in a space defined by a square. Every new position of the characters changes the perspective and at the same time our special perception. It is a game of power and dependence, where the special position of the two men depicts the state of their relationship. During the film power is shifted from the old to the young.

Direction: Raimund Krumme
Animation: Herdis Albrecht, Corinna Nickel
Camera: Heinz Busert
Editing: Günter Klaucke
Producer: Raimund Krumme
Production: Filmkedittreuhand

Raimund Krumme

Independent animation filmmaker who also directed commercials for the American and Japanese market. His animated shorts Rope Dance (1986), Spectators (1989), Crossroads (1991), Passage (1994) and The Message (2000) have won many international awards including the Prix du Jury in Annecy, two times the Bundesfilmpreis, Filmband in Gold (Bonn), Silver Dragon (Cracow) and Grand Prix for animation (Montreal). His films and drawings were exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide. Recently he exhibited drawings and animation in Lisbon at the Sociedade Nationalde Belas Artes at Monstra-Animation-Festival. Before he had exhibitions at UPV-Valencia, Fuzhong F15-museum for animation and documentary in New Taipei City, in Meknes Morocco at the Institut Français, in Gori Georgia and several times in Berlin. He has a huge experience in teaching Media Arts at universities all over the world.