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Student Showcase Archive

Aline Helmcke

MA work

MA work

My films explore the relationship between still and moving image, which can be drawn or photographed. The drawn animation films investigate the behaviour of the line when shifting between abstract and representative imagery, whereas my photograph-based work examines the various ways of creating the illusion of movement and continuous space within the film frame.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Animation, 2008

  • My films explore the relationship between still and moving image, which can be drawn or photographed. The drawn animation films investigate the behaviour of the line when shifting between abstract and representative imagery, whereas my photograph-based work examines the various ways of creating the illusion of movement and continuous space within the film frame.

  • Degrees

  • Meisterschüler Fine Art, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, 2002
  • Experience

  • Animation and Editing for Digitale Handarbeit (Documentary), WEED, Berlin, 2007; Assistant Tutor, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany, 2005-6; Animator for Fun Glasses (Animated Film), Matthias Daenschel (producer), Berlin, Germany, 2005; Illustrator for Björn Kuhligk's Book Kino im Kopf, Berlin Verlag (publisher), Germany, 2005
  • Exhibitions

  • Foreign Students Exhibition, Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, Japan, 2007; Rencontres Internationales, Cinema du Monde, Paris/Madrid, 2006; Filmkanal IX, Asperger Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2006; Transmediale, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2006
  • Awards

  • Prize, Drawing, Desmond Preston Prize, 2008; Grant, Fine Art, DAAD scholarship, 2007; Grant, Fine Art, NaFöG scholarship, 2005