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Gwenola Heck

Director

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Our bodies are functioning machines in a restless society. But how free are we to decide over them ourselves when we are constantly influenced by everything around us?

Country: France

T-Port Partner: Filmfest Dresden, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, German Short Films: NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER

Gwenola Heck is an experimental animation director working primarily with 2D animation and stop motion. Drawn to tactile and haptic crafts, she also works in the field of production design. In 2025, she graduated from the Animationsinstitut at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She is currently based in Leipzig, where she works as a production designer on stop-motion films produced by the Hidden Institute while developing her debut film, Melatonin in cooperation with the Blaue Pampelmuse.

Filmography on T-Port

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