Surreality
2011 · 6m · Germany
Directed by Falko Tilgner, Patrick Paulin
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Buildings construct themselves from nothing and human faces reshape with a single tug — VFX-driven short treating modern life's absurdities as literal mutations.
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Student filmmakers in 2011 making faces peel and buildings self-assemble as a straight-faced metaphor for modern life — formal ambition before anyone tells you it's not allowed.
VFX-driven student short from 2011 whose surface treatments hold up impressively, treating modern-life absurdities as literal mutations — Rubber Johnny and Gondry are generous comparisons for a 10-week project but the technical commitment is real.
Student work from 2011 with VFX that the page summary itself doesn't oversell — buildings constructing themselves, faces reshaping with a tug. Modest but committed; the brevity protects it from outstaying.