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When Alexander Lahl and Max Mönch had sent me their exclusive interview with Karen Lips, her commitment impressed me right from the start. But then came Covid19. After months I realized, that these frogs and their dying were like a »writing on the wall«. So I decided to connect and confront these different worlds with each other. I’ve also tried to show the process of a hand drawn animation by using the afterglow of the movement as a picture in it’s own right, paying tribute to »Pas de deux« by Norman McLaren from 1968, the year I was born.
Country: Germany
T-Port Partner: AG Kurzfilm
Volker Schlecht works as an illustrator, artist and filmmaker in Berlin. He studied communication design at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and worked for several years as a graphic designer at moniteurs, Berlin. After that he became an assistent teacher at the animation department of the Film University Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg, before he changed to the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK, now part of the University of Europe network) as lecturer, later as a professor of sequential illustration. Since March 2022 he is professor of drawing and design foundations at the architecture department of the Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau. Together with Alexandra Kardinar he founded their collaborative label Drushba Pankow in 2002. Schlecht is born in 1968 in Radeberg, close to Dresden.
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a shack in Costa Rica...
