Rumours

Shortfilm 9 min Animation, Timelapse, Life Action 2017

There is something in the air.
It spreads.
Everywhere

Rumours is a slow but forceful change of power status, as inevitable as life itself. Humans are the mere silhouettes here; their shots are mostly shot against a static camera, and their fleeting impressions are accompanied by shots of domestic decay. Overturning the tables, the film shows decay as a human condition (and not as a natural condition), nature itself is represented as a carefully lit, almost glowing force at night, with brief but still strong movements. Experimental here borrows from the suspenseful, and the film noir tradition; entering and breaking a house is what all those plants will gradually do, step-by-step. Aebersold builds her case for Rumours (with the help of the tremendously evocative sound design by Christoph Undisz) as a transition that needs to be accepted in its own terms. The film stirs your visual senses and olfactory palate; it is suitably lightweight in its execution, suspenseful, and admirable in its frankness.

Film Review from Vassilis Kroustallis, Zippy Frames, Januar 2021

Interview with Vassilis Kroustallis on Zippy Frames- read here

Awards

Nomination for the Student Academy Award 2019

International Film Festival "Euro Fest" St. Petersburg, Russia
Best Video Art

Rencontres Cinéma-Nature, France
Best Sound Creation Award

Festivals (Selection)

Premiers Plans Angers, France
Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
Achtung Berlin / New Berlin Film Award, Germany
Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paolo, Brazil
Animatou, International Animation Festival Geneva, Swizerland
Chicago International Children`s Filmfestival, USA
Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden, Germany
Little Big Shorts, Melburne, Australia
Manchester International Short Film & Animation Festival , UK
Festival Les Enfants terribles HUY, Belgium

Crew

Director: Nicole Aebersold
Editior: Doreen Töppel
DOP: Clemens Barth
Sounddesign: Christoph Undisz
Producer: Sonja Menzel- Gnizia
Production company: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF