Jost Althoff
Born 1975 in West-Berlin, Germany. 2005-2010 Study of animation, University for Film and Television (HFF Potsdam). Lives in Berlin as a free lance animator, joining forces with the animation studio “House of Creatures” since 2011.
Films
- Deadweight / Balast
A lonely wanderer struggles to carry his burden – a massive tree trunk, ball and chain, something being born. When his only company – a small bird – suffers abuse from a creature who came out of the burden he carries, our protagonist needs to decide whose company he prefers on his future path. (The reference to the “province” is present in describing a sense of existence, which is pictured through both the internal and the external emigration.)
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