Gerd Gockell

Películas

Kill Your Darlings
Producer
If there’s one thing farmer Olga loves more than her pet pigs, it’s a pork chop. When the pigs she butchers find that they can still influence events on the farm after their deaths, a vicious circle begins.
Pipes
Producer
Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and lands to his surprise in a gay fetish club.
Not the Same and Yet
Director
Black & White
Director
The proverbial "black sheep" will be bullied out of the herd and only the brave outsider can protect them from harm.
Megamall
Executive Producer
Figures that inhabit a world of escalators pursue their desire to consume at a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room where it joins a playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a dog crazy about chips. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.
Schweinerei
Producer
Anita has been suffering under the tyranny of the scientists at an animal research clinic for years. When she meets the pig Sirius, she realizes that she has to take her fate into her own hands.
Life Is One of the Simplest
Executive Producer
A collage of five people from different cultures living in Switzerland. They reflect on life by looking at their origins. The liveliness and diversity of life can be divined.
Elegy
Producer
Stone and light, just stone and light. ‘Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future.’ (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Perfect Town
Executive Producer
Everybody aspires to be a citizen of Perfect Town – but display a deficiency or a flaw and you will be stripped of your superior status and forced to the rear of the interminable line of those clamouring to get in.
The Little Bird and the Caterpillar
Producer
"The little bird has plenty of peace and quiet high up in its tree, at least until an unexpected guest shows up. The brash caterpillar's keen on devouring the green leaves that the little bird has cared for so tenderly. During the ensuing showdown, the two fail to notice that someone else is hard on their heels, and this character's craving a more savoury snack."
Gatos y perros
Writer
Un cortometraje animado para niños sobre la amistad. Uno no puede forzar una amistad, pero una emergencia puede construir una amistad.
Gatos y perros
Director
Un cortometraje animado para niños sobre la amistad. Uno no puede forzar una amistad, pero una emergencia puede construir una amistad.
The Five Minute Museum
Producer
An experimental animation in which thousands of artifacts from the collections of small museums are brought to life in an animated history of human endeavor.
Patch
Writer
An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognizability.
Patch
Director
An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognizability.
Sooner or Later
Producer
Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground govern night and day – and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures.
Restored Weekend
Director
Restored Weekend is fictitious discovery based on Walter Ruttmann's audio play 'Weekend' from 1930 - the first-ever abstract sound collage.
Just in Time
Director of Photography
The trauma of a car accident 16 years earlier is revisited on a road journey. This absorbing piece combines various media to evoke deeply personal feelings.
Clocks
Cinematography
Clocks offers the impression of the working life of the 37-year old composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin.