My Inner Square

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(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

The 3D-animated short film follows a man in his late twenties, who wakes up one morning to a quiet horror: overnight, he has become a bourgeois. He slowly manages to embrace his inner square. Set within the aesthetic matrix of German petit-bourgeois culture the film unfolds through a hybrid structure of five animated music video sequences and three interview fragments. Deliberately elliptical in its narration it leads the audience through a hyper-stylized world. Saturated with bourgeois kitsch, it traces the thoughts of the filmmaker, who wrote, composed and performed all five songs.

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  • Duration: 14 Min.
  • Countries: Germany
  • Languages: German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2026

  • Director: Jan Reuter
  • Camera: Jan Reuter
  • Editing: Jan Reuter
  • Sound: Jan Reuter, Konstantin Frey
  • Production: Jan Reuter
  • Nominated: Goldener Hercules