Maxi Schramm

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Memories escaping

Animated short film, collage installation, text
Work in progress, year started: 2022

About

Memory is a tricky thing, each time we recall a memory we simultaneously change it depending on our mood and the details we focus on. At the beginning of the grieving process my mind was blank, it felt like unpacking a box full of carefully wrapped belongings but once the wrapping paper was gone there was nothing there. Somehow physical objects seemed more reliable so I held on to the handful of possessions I had from her: five photographs, her wedding band, a vase and a tea set. These objects are the fabric of the work where memories escape in ways unforseen.
In the last years of her life, our communication became increasingly non-verbal. I am grateful that we were able to hold on to our strong emotional bond until the end.

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Out(of)line (2024)

Experimental animation

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Tall Grass (2020)

Official music video for Porcelain Raft's song "Tall Grass"

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Experimental animation with cut outs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and browser magic.

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Her World (2019)

Experimental animation, digital collages

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Animation variations based on one image of dancer Martha Graham. The image depicts her choreography „Letter to the world“ which was based on poetry by Emily Dickinson. All digital collages and animations are entirely created from that single image.

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These Sleepless Nights (2019)

Experimental animation recorded with smart phone

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There I was trying to sleep in an unfamiliar place. The street lights were too bright and the fan too loud. After some time I got up and turned a sleepless night into an animation experiment. While recording the reflections I moved my phone up and down on the surface of the window and the lights started spinning, creating mesmerizing spectacles to the sound of the fan all of which kept me from sleeping yet again.

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Endless-less

Digital collages, experimental animation and web art project
Ongoing series, year started: 2019

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The user can endlessly scroll through the image on a website. In some works the act of scrolling through the image creates the motion for the animation.

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Taking steps (2020)

Patterns are based on collages I created in 2010. How many steps have you taken? Are you going up or down?

Endless (2019)

Patterns are based on collages from the perpetual line series.

PERPETUAL LINE

Hand made paper collages, digital collages, experimental animation
Ongoing project, year started: 2016

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View documentation of the project here.

The gif below was selected for the Fantoche 16th International Animation Film Festival 2018 "GIF not JIF" programme.

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Window Patterns (2019)

Digital collages, experimental animation, loops

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Gleich Schritt Halten(2019)

Animated cut outs, loop

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Whilst cutting out lines for a different project a lot of scraps accumulated and I decided to animate them. A first attempt at examining Gleichschritt patterns. Feeling out of breath yet?

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Übergriffig (2017)

Animated cut outs, loop

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The gif was selected for the Fantoche 16th International Animation Film Festival 2018 "GIF not JIF" programme.

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Scraps Fly (2018)

Animated cut outs, loop

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A deconstruction of an object from the animated objects series. An attempt at flying.

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ANIMATED OBJECTS (2015)

Collage & experimental animation, negatives of cutouts of an animation cycle placed in photo cubes

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Objects can be animated with a flash light. .

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Fleischwolf - Loop (2013)

Hand drawn animation on 35mm film

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The loop was created in a workshop led by animator Elizabeth Hobbs.

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