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The Message | Il messaggio

Raimund Krumme
Germania | 2000 | 6’14’’

“He is back again” is the simple message circulating through the town. We see the reaction of people towards this news. Their fears, their denial. Some try to hide it and everyone has their own interpretation.

Direction: Raimund Krumme
Animation: Herdis Albrecht, Kris van Alphen, John Foulk
Ink and Paint: Eva Behse, Isabel Herguera, Ulf Staeger, Maria Vailkovski
Camera: Heinz Busert
Editing: Günter Klaucke
Music: Rainald Hahn
Producer: Raimund Krumme
Production: Filmförderungsanstalt, Acme Filmworks

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 have been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide. Recently he exhibited drawings and animation in Lisbon at the Sociedade Nationalde Belas ArtesatMonstra-Animation-Festival. Before he exhibited his works at UPV-Valencia, Fuzhong F15- museum for animation and documentary in New Taipei City, at the Institut Français in Meknes (Morocco), in Gori (Georgia) and several times in Berlin. He has a huge experience in teaching Media Arts at universities all over the world.