East German animator Katrin Rothe’s new function movie, Johnny & Me – A Journey Via Time with John Heartfield, has been chosen to compete within the “Coutrechamp” function movie class at Annecy 2023. Mixing documentary and fictional parts by cut-out animation and live-action, her animated movie particulars how the daddy of political photomontage, protesting in opposition to German warmongering, grew to become an enemy of the Nazi state. A German theatrical launch is deliberate for the tip of 2023 / spring 2024.
The forty seventh version of the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant runs June 11-17.
Within the film, graphic designer Stefanie is in a inventive disaster. Boring promoting assignments and a boss who doesn’t worth her work. On a go to to a museum, she is magically attracted by the satirical photomontages of the world-famous colleague and Nazi opponent John Heartfield. Then the miracle occurs. She leads to his studio, the place she lastly picks up scissors and paper once more.
An adventurous journey by Heartfield’s extraordinary life 100 years in the past begins. Bertold Brecht known as him some of the necessary European artists. Rosa Luxemburg personally handed over the occasion e book to the communist of the primary hour in 1918. George Grosz and Kurt Tucholsky are amongst his closest associates and inventive companions. He gave himself an English identify in protest in opposition to German warmongering. For the Nazis, nonetheless, the daddy of political photomontage rapidly grew to become some of the harmful enemies of the state. He spent years as a fugitive in Europe, and later discovered no secure house even within the socialist GDR.
Watch clips from Johnny & Me – A Journey Via Time with John Heartfield:
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
