During Rundgang 2026 the Animationsstudio presents a selection of inmersive short films and one installation for dome. The program is organized into three sections:
1. Firstdome.2026 SoSe Workshop + Anant Workshop / total program duration 25 minutes
2. eXtatic dreaming 360° – Kunsthochschule Kassel / total program duration 33 minutes
3. @aliceabeille – installation by Derek Karcirek / duration 9 minutes
Firstdome is presented in the inner courtyard in Heumarkt 14, visit us and sign up for a time slot. Capacity is limited and the schedule may be modified due to extreme heat or other weather conditions. July 15 to 19th, 2026. Timetable.
Firstdome. SoSe 2026 Workshop + Anant Workshop
Firstdome. Sose 2026 Workshop + Anant Workshop is conformed by works created by students from the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) and the Anant University, many of which are being presented in our Dome for the first time.
When a Lot of Spit Is Falling from the Sky, It’s Better to Walk Than to Run
Jinyoung Yoo
Sound: Jinyoung Yoo
Duration: 02:00
The sun keeps spitting from the sky. Without an umbrella, what am I supposed to do to avoid it?
Lost in Flames
Maryam Soltani Amidabadi
Sound: Maryam Soltani
Duration: 00:41
Sometimes, while watching the flames, you realize you’ve been burning all along.
Flattened Afternoon
Xi Yeling
Sound: Xiaoyu Jia
Duration: 01:00
Through the warped curve of a peephole, I squeeze once again into that flattened afternoon, as if I were sitting on the back seat of my grandfather’s electric scooter.
A rabbit clock rotating in reverse takes me back to that summer, endlessly crashing into sunlight, until in the rearview mirror the fragments collect into an entire season of broken glass; until that wind, impossible to grasp, suddenly passes through the distorted keyhole, gently pressing against my forehead.
Sensory Education for the Future Generation
Suheun Kim
Sound: Audio from DJ Nao’s Rural 2024 Techno Set (used with permission)
Duration: 12:38
This video interprets a DJ set with found footage images. This idea is possible only because we effortlessly integrate sensory perception. But for the future generation who are raised with generated images and synthetic sounds– will they be able to do this? This video is a training material for them to recover this human ability.
Ensayo (Rehearsal) no. 28: Coucou Cocoon (2026)
Siomon Paul Baptist
Sound: Bella Comsom
Duration: 02:22
HD video (colour, sound), loop.
In his ongoing series Ensayos (Rehearsals), Simon Baptist explores phenomena of perception, space and the body through short video experiments. These experiments usually then find their way into his filmic work.
Ikarus
Tim Große
Sound: Xiaoyu Jia
Duration: 01:00
Ikarus is an excerpt from the loop that arises from the pursuit of power…
Untitled
Eunseo Kwak
Sound: Xiaoyu Jia
Duration: 01:00
Round Teeth
Anna Mahendra (born Heinzig)
Animation: Ayla Mahendra
Animation & Sound: Matthias Stoll
Duration: 01:00
Will you ever take off your grinning toothy smile? A journey exploring 360° dome.
Water
Juho Lee, Vaibhav Raj
Sound: Jannika Loeshe
Duration: 01:40
Microscopia
Lisa James, Swati Mangrulkar
Sound: Chanmin Kim
HELY SHAH
NIVEDITA SANTOSH
Snowflake
Pavel Méndez Hernández, Kriti SV, Yajurdev
Sound: Dennis Aycicek
Duration: 02:00
eXtatic Dreaming 360°
Kunsthochschule Kassel
We are happy to host a selection of immersive animations by students from Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Solitaire at the Collision
Aran Oberdörfer
Sound: Aran Oberdörfer
Duration: 01:30
What do you see, when you close your eyes?
I don’t… think I’m seeing anything?
But can you conjure something? In front of your mind’s eye?
…I feel like I only believe I’m seeing something, because you expect me to.
“Solitaire at the Collision” is a short film about the stirred consciousness, materializing at the border where the mental and the sensory meet. Inspired by the immersive canvas of a 360° dome and influenced by the autistic experience of the mundane, the artist contains us within the currents of the super-conscious.
Senses Alight
Gülberk Elif Bosgelmez
Sound: Gülberk Elif Bosgelmez
Duration: 02:00
“Senses Alight” is a short poetry animation about the shifting weight of existence.
Face’s Journey
Minkyung Kim
Sound: Minkyung Kim
Duration: 02:25
Born to face a journey! “Face’s Journey” is an animation in retro gaming style. A face travels through a pixel world in search of its dream. Where will it arrive at the end of its journey?
Infinite Nowhere
Lucine Moschref
Sound: Morris Joffe
Duration: 04:06
An endless train circles, while the landscapes around it are in constant flux: from vibrant urbanity to rural idylls to surreal fragments. The further the journey progresses, the more reality disintegrates—familiar structures dissolve, details tip into the dreamlike. An ominous presence imperceptibly accompanies the journey, hidden at the edge of vision, a silent witness to the transition into the unreal.
A Dream of Connection
Malin Gutschank
Sound: Ben Sassen
Duration: 06:00
Everything is possible in a universe filled with stars. When two stars collide a new love is crystallised from the darkness of space. “A Dream of Connection” is a film about queer joy and the beauty of discovering yourself and your community. Let yourself be taken on a cosmic journey full of colours and dreams. Because at the end you are also stardust just looking for connection.
Irgendwo Nirgendwo / Somewhere Nowhere
Smilla Siebenschock
Sound: Fabian Gimpel
Duration: 04:50
“Somewhere Nowhere” is a 3D animated dream journey that begins on the dark roof of a high-rise building. In the distance, a mysterious light flickers, appearing again and again in different places—like a fleeting call from the depths of the city. A flight begins—driven by the longing to reach the light that keeps eluding us.
Of Sorrow and Silence
Seymoure Konnemann
Compositing: Seymoure Konnemann
Duration: 05:00
“Of Sorrow and Silence” is a 3D poetry animation about the Moon, who cannot find rest despite being far away. Haunted by traumatic memories of the Beast, he lies awake—pursued by an echo of the past that refuses to fade. Image, word and sound interweave into a journey through memory, fear and the fragile search for inner peace.
Light BraIN-rOtT
Hannah Deger
Duration: 04:27
Just switch off your brain and let yourself get carried away.
Let your brain cells rot in the nonsense.
Dive into a new world. A new landscape.
But don’t let it freak you out—it’s supposed to help you turn off your mind.
For a moment, don’t try to make sense of anything, don’t think, don’t know.
Maybe feel a bit confused—or not.
Things are just happening.
Just a bit of senseless rotting… we’re doing it anyway.
Narthesis
Marvin U. Müller
Sound: Marvin U. Müller
Duration: 03:00
Narthesis is not a place but a passage that opens when no one is watching. A nameless rite, hidden at the core, where the world falls silent and the gaze turns inward. No prayer begins there, only silence—at the edge of one’s own abyss. One does not see who one wishes to be, but who one is when everything else falls away. Narthesis is not an answer but an echo sinking into the heart like a stone into deep water.
@aliceabeille
Installation
Derek Kacirek
Drehbuch: Ella
Sound Design: Derek Kacirek
Mit: Diane Odile
Tanz und Choreografie: Laura Mirjana
Kostümbild: Marven Rabe
360 Grad Kamera: Etienne Duplan
Studio-Kamera: Yuanxu Wang
Studio-Licht: Montika Kham-On
Musik: Gerd Hennecke
Dramaturgie und Recherche: Joe Hennecke
Assistenz: Johanna Grabert
Duration: 0:09:00
Endzeitstimmung im Bienenforum: Zwischen Klimawandelfolgen, Killerhornissen und Nachbarschaftsstreits, tut eine junge Imkerin, bekannt als aliceabeille alles, um sich und ihre Bienen durch die Dystopie zu navigieren. Vor der Umsetzung eines waghalsigen Plans, erwartet sie den Besuch einer alten Bekannten.
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