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Trickster

Trickster

2008Short⏱️ 15mTV-PG
AnimationShort
5.7
IMDB Rating
18 votes

The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a pitoresque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience, undergoes an existential development, dreaming of his counterpart, the whiteface clown and ...

Director
Alexander Pohl
Writers
N/A
Stars
Florian Hertweck
Release Date
June 5, 2009
Language
None
Country
Germany
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

👤
Florian Hertweck
as August

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Production
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf'

🏷️ Keywords

clown

🎯 Categories

AnimationShort

⭐ Featured Review

Outstanding German animation.
by Mozjoukine2009-09-05

"This German short is state of the art digital animation, it's imagery is arresting, unfamiliar and in places convincingly lifelike to the point of it being impossible to tell how much of the picture is photographic. The dream-like mood holds attention. The clown discovers that his performance is being recorded on a giant camera and thrusts his face through the lens, terrifying his digital audience - except one. The climax (yes it actually develops) is quite startling. It is not free of the pretensions of the art (gallery art) film and one is uneasy about the notion that this craft skill ..."

📖 Synopsis

The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a pitoresque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience, undergoes an existential development, dreaming of his counterpart, the whiteface clown and ...