Photographers tend to showcase their best work. This film is an attempt to do the opposite - to create something out of those images I usually skip when browsing through my photo library: bland, boring images with no discernible subject or meaning.

Twenty years after the Great Depression, Tom continues to spend his life trying to recall the moment his father forced him to bury his favorite pet. In his current state of fatal depression, Tom must finally uncover the truth to the secret that tore his family apart before he loses the only thing he has left...life.

An animated short inspired by a performance of Bernadette Boos in 2007. Directed and animated by Michael Fragstein at Buro Achter April.

A music video for Forget, by Vania & the Master created by Michael Fragstein and Moritz Reichartz.

Homecoming is a short animated film exploring the work of Franz Kafka through his homonymous story. The story follows the homecoming of a wayward son back to his fathers' farm where he spent the first years of his life.  The piece focuses on his inability to connect to the environment, and on his hesitation to make any step of approach...

The Windows is my attempt to visualize C.P.Cavafy's poem of the same name. The animation was created in 2003, and was a personal project reflecting certain aspects of my own psychology at the time. A translation of the poem can be found below...

ime is complex, mysterious and convoluted. Viewing common scenes through a simple distorted frame of time causes patterns and dynamics to emerge that would otherwise go unnoticed. In Palindrome, I use time-lapse photography and digital techniques to show the dynamism of natural and human processes...