01 – Gravity
14 Awards for: best animation /// best music /// best short film /// best music clip /// huminitarian award
Duration: 07:00
Start: March 2016 /// End: November 2017
Released: 20.06.19
Director: Julian Treemaker & Katharina Potratz
Story: Julian Treemaker
Animation: Katharina Potratz
About: “01” is a lovingly drawn animation film by Katharina Potratz. Without pointing at anyone, she shows the emotional and moving story of a small refugee boy on his way into a new homeland. A homeland that is divided.
The film has received numerous awards and is the first out of the silent & short film series “Second Truth” from Julian Treemaker, who wrote the awarded song “Gravity” for it. In the lyrics he talks about the thoughts and desires of a generation that is older than it should be, lost between Globalization and war.
Synopsis: Sergam is a little boy. A refugee. His boat’s stranded on the coast. His mother didn’t survive. Instead, a young woman takes care of him and they both set off on their way through a nightmare.
Katharina Potratz
Born in Hamburg in October 1988, Katharina Potratz studied illustration in her home city at the University of Applied Sciences as well as the Academia di Belle Arti di Bologna. She began her work as a freelance illustrator four years ago parallel to her Master studies, which she graduated in 2017 with the film 01.
02 – So far so near
Duration: i.P.
Start: March 2018 /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: Julian Treemaker
Story: Julian Treemaker
Camera: Aliaksandr Valasevich
Protargonist: Konstantin Belkov
About: “02” is the second film out of the Second Truth series and a Documentary of extra ordinary film maker Aliaksandr Valasevich and Julian Treemaker. We’re following Constantin. A Homeless. He works again. He lives again in an apartment and takes part in a “normal” life. For only one day. Julian Treemaker, founder of Second Truth, wrote the score “So Near So Far” for this silent movie in which he’s talking about a place in our minds no one will ever reach.
03 – Rom
Duration: i.P.
Start: February 2018 /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: Julian Treemaker
Story: Julian Treemaker
Camera: Aliaksandr Valasevich
Chereographer: Yara Eid
Dancer: Yara Eid, Amr Karkout, Medhat Aldaabal, Mouafak Aldoabl
Idea: They’re dancing through the streets. Throw coins in the well. They kiss and wish each other luck. Syrian dancers fly through Rome like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers once upon a time.
04 – Kiko
Duration: i.P.
Start: March 2018 /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: Julian Treemaker
In Cooperation with Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre
Story: Julian Treemaker
Synopsis: A boy is born in a country far far away. His parents are farmers. The hat-bearers force him to follow their example. When he refuses, they destroy his world and he calls for revenge.
05 – WAR
Duration: i.P.
Start: November 2016 /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: Alexey Divisenko
Story: Alexey Divisenko
Animation: Alexey Divisenko
Idea: Networking becomes a part of our personality. A wide variety of opinion leaders approach us directly. They’re forcing us to have an attitude. The conflicts of this world are turning into opinion wars.
06 – Bullet
Duration: i.P.
Start: i.P. /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: i.P.
Story: Julian Treemaker
Idea: It’s flying through the air. Turns slightly. We watch it for a long time. A calm scenery. Caught in strange beauty. Then it cuts through a boy’s photo. Like a monster, it continues to fly towards its target.
07 – Sahar
Duration: i.P.
Start: Januar 2017 /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: Sahar Fetrat
Story: Julian Treemaker
Idea: The women are stoned to death. They get groped on the bus. The taxi driver masturbates. They are alone on the streets of Kabul. And they stopped being silent.
08 – Master
Duration: i.P.
Start: i.P. /// End: i.P. /// Released: i.P.
Director: i.P.
Story: i.P.
Idea: When she fell in love with him, she thought he was just an ordinary guy. She raved about his sensitivity. But he has a secret that one day he must reveal to her.