導演 / Director : Thomas Stellmach, Maja Oschmann

抽象的水墨畫痕，似乎從哪兒冒出來。在神祕的編舞後，它們隨著音樂的特性及情緒，講述著音樂主導的故事。羞澀相逢與主動追求、敏捷輕盈與緊湊對峙的交互作用，喚醒眾多的相互協調。例如鳥、植物或水底世界，而這又刺激了許多不同的情感印象。

Abstract ink drawings seem to come out of nowhere. Following a secret choreography, they take on characteristics and moods of the music and narrate a story that appears to be laid out in the music. The interplay of timid encounters and dynamic pursuits, the agile lightness and confrontation, awakens a multitude of associations e.g. of birds, plants or the under-water world, which in turn stimulates many different emotional impressions.

Thomas Stellmach is animation director, producer, author and animator. Amongst international awards for his independent productions, he received in 1997 the Academy award (Oscar) for the stop-motion film QUEST. He studied animation at the Kassel Academy of Arts. After that he founded the animation studio "Lichthof – Film & Animation" in Kassel and produced for TV and advertising. In 2009 Stellmach left the company to focus his work on artistic animation projects. VIRTUOS VIRTUELL (2013) is his first independent film after the study. Click here to view the director's website.

Maja Oschmann is an artist and drawer. She studied at the Kassel Academy of Arts, was awarded the Otto-Braun scholarship, and sold her works at the Artothek Art Collection Kassel. She has focused her analysis on the relationship between drawing and music. This is reflected in her multidisciplinary projects: at the opening event of the Kassel Music Festival, and with the contemporary composers D. Jascalevich and P. Swinnen. She founded a private school of drawing and gives lessons at the Academy. Maja Oschmann has co-directed VIRTUOS VIRTUELL with Thomas Stellmach from April 2010 to February 2013. This is her first film. Click here to view the director's website.