Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Directing
Biography
Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1985, he has been studying animation at the School of Art and Design Kassel since 2008. His work as a director includes the short animated films SCHATTENGEWÄCHS (2010), ANDERSARTIG (2011) and A KIND OF SAD STORY (2012). THE OLD MAN AND THE BIRD (2015) is his graduation film.
Known For

Two wanderers come across a hypnotic water pit in a dry desert. The water pit is now the trigger for an all-encompassing conflict: should they settle down or keep on wandering?
In/finite
Snowflakes drift through the forest. An old man, as old as the hills, lives alone in a remote hut. The winter is so cold that he can barely move his limbs. When a robin flies against his window and falls to the ground the old man first has to pause for thought. Then he pushes open the heavy front door and stomps outside to help the bird. Out in the deep snow his strength begins to fail him. But no sooner does he take the tender creature in his hands than a change comes over him. Life radiates in luminous colours and returns to the old man's hut. As it used to. Or is this just one last memory? An inventively animated rumination on love, on bidding farewell and the cycle of life.
The Old Man and the Bird

A man talks about his everyday life while his head is developing a life of it's own.
Facelift
In the city of Evia, residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it and houses it. The other residents are not delighted. A persecution begins.