A brief nightmarish visit to an invisible factory of the inner mind. (Stop-Motion and Light Painting)
Director Biography – Philipp Ramspeck
Philipp Ramspeck was born in Austria in 1977 and grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. He began making films at an early age and during high school he shot his first Super-8 opus and a system critical actionist video film called “I and the dinosaur”. He was accepted to the Filmakademie Vienna in 1999 and left disappointed after one year of film school. During film school he visited the year round public lectures on film by Peter Kubelka at the Filmmuseum Vienna which had a grave influence on his further path. He returned to Zurich and began working odd jobs for over a decade. In this time he experimented with 16mm film and a Bolex camera and in 2007 he shot his first feature film “Kleiner Sonntag”. 2015 he finished his 16mm animation film “Metal Laser City” which took him 5 years to shoot. Since 2014 he is a full-time independent filmmaker.
Filmography (Selection):
1992 “Herr Wächter” shortfilm, (5 min.) 1995 “Au Du Gody” shortfilm, (33 min.) 1996 “I And The Dinosaur”, shortfilm (22 min.) 1998 “Ein kurzer Film mit Lilly”, shortfilm (10 min.) 2004 “Blut aus Hollywood”, experimental film (4 min.) 2008 “Kleiner Sonntag”, feature film (69 min.), Filmstock International Film Festival 2008; honoured with the Max-Ophüls-Award: Award of the studentjury 2009 2014 “243-Ein stiller Mann”, experimental film (20 min.), Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2015; Film Festival Münster 2015 2015 “Metal Laser City (A Cinepoem)”, animation film (13 min.), Videoex International Experimental Film & Video Festival 2016; Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2016; Euro Film Festival 2016 (Preis: Best Experimental Animation Film); Moscow International Experimental Film Festival 2016; Jornadas de Reapropriación 2016, Mexico City; CineAutopsia/Bogotá Experimental Film Festival 2017 (Lobende Erwähnung der Jury); Haverhill Experimental Film Festival 2017; Sacalacalaca International Filmfestival of Horror & Sci-Fi (Winner 1st Place Experimental Category) 2018: “Frankenstein”, feature film (85 min.) mit Noemi Amadori 2019 “Loosin’ It”, short film (33 min.) (In Postproduktion)
