Shortlist Riftline Personal Work: Craft: VFX/Animation

CLIENT/BRAND-

PRODUCTION COMPANYHAZE FILM GMBH

DIRECTOR(S)SEBASTIAN BRUNE

PRODUCER(S)NICKLAS JUNTKE-KRÜGER

AGENCY-

DOPSEBASTIAN BRUNE

INSTAGRAM TAG @SEBASTIANTHEBRUNE @NICK_JAYKAY @_HAZE.FILM

SHORT SYNOPSIS IN A WORLD FRACTURED BY INVISIBLE BORDERS - CULTURAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PERSONAL - THREE VISIONARIES MOVE THROUGH SURREAL LANDSCAPES AND DECAYING CITYSCAPES, CHALLENGING THE CONSTRUCTS THAT CONFINE THEM. RIFTLINE IS A VISUALLY ARRESTING SHORT FILM THAT MERGES FASHION, FUTURISM, AND INNER TRANSFORMATION INTO A POETIC NARRATIVE ABOUT IDENTITY, RESISTANCE, AND REBIRTH.

CRAFTED INDEPENDENTLY FROM THE GROUND UP, THE FILM FOLLOWS THE JOURNEY OF THREE ICONIC FIGURES: FUTURIST, MARVIN MARIOO, AND CHRIS KALBITZ, WHOSE BOLD PRESENCE AND AESTHETICS BECOME THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF A GENERATION REFUSING TO CONFORM. WITH NO DIALOGUE, YET RESONANT EMOTION, RIFTLINE BLURS THE LINE BETWEEN REALITY AND METAPHOR, DOCUMENTARY AND MYTH.

AT ITS CORE, THIS IS A FILM ABOUT TRUSTING VISION OVER REASON AND CREATING SPACE FOR RADICAL EXPRESSION IN A WORLD THAT SEEKS TO DEFINE AND LIMIT US.