Sebastian Buerkner

Sebastian BUERKNER (1975, Germany) was educated in Fine Art in Salle, Germany, and gained his master's degree at Chelsea College in London. Since 1997 he has participated in several international group and solo shows. The filmmaker is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster. In 2014, his film The Chimera of M. was awarded a Tiger Award for Short Films.

Filmography

(selection, all short) Glance Project (2005), Peak Project (2005), Walker (2006), Purple Grey (2006), The Conversation (2006), Turf Waltz (2007), Time Tear (2007), Sound Focus (2007), Identity Slice (2007), Frame Erasure (2007), Blur Belt (2008), Realms Pin (2008), Tide (2009), Glove (2009), Triband (2009), Album Matter (2010), Susy and Destiny (2010), Them! (2010), Door Beard Bacon Pinch (2011), That Was Your Dog (2012), The Chimera of M. (2013), Weresheglanspearthere (2014), Eaves Apart (2015), Tosse not my Soule (2015), Rhinoceros (2016), Aykan (2018)

Sebastian Buerkner at IFFR

Purple Grey

Animation about a vivid imagination that can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life.

Sebastian Buerkner

7'
United Kingdom

IFFR 2007

Realms Pin

Flash animated objects as witnesses and players in parallel universes, impacted and agitated by their unexpected roles. Buerkner spectacularly allows us to visualise this virtual graffiti, revealing the full story.

Sebastian Buerkner

5'
United Kingdom

IFFR 2009

Triband

Opening with the promise that 'The following film contains stroboscopic/flashing imagery from the start!', Triband puts the flash into flash animation.

Sebastian Buerkner

4'
United Kingdom

IFFR 2011

The Chimera of M.

Idiosyncratic, stereoscopic 3D animation. Film as a moving sculpture, a web of spatial deceit, with snippets of arguments, desires and lust.

Sebastian Buerkner

25'
United Kingdom

IFFR 2014

Weresheglanspertheere

A riveting play on illustration, online found footage is densely reimagined to ask us whether how we hear is determined by what we see.

Sebastian Buerkner

6'
United Kingdom

IFFR 2015

Tosse not my soule

Familiar sights of everyday life are abstracted by Sebastian Buerkner’s lush digital animation that contemplates the place of spiritual transcendence today.

Sebastian Buerkner

5'
United Kingdom

IFFR 2016

Eaves Apart

Patterns of night travel and night travel in patterns. Eaves Apart is a brilliantly coloured collage of overheard conversations, transitory sights, crowds, rain-lashed windows.

Sebastian Buerkner