Thomas Gassmann

Voiceless (2024)

Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. T ...

On Hold (2024)

A young woman is stuck in the waiting line of a telephone hotline. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the feeling of paralysing stagnation. ...

The Car That Came Back from the Sea (2023)

Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, dented car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on. Their journey is interfused with memories and snapsho ...

GLOW (2023)

She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her ...

Sit Down, Don't Touch Anything (2022)

A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with a lot of things. But thank god, it's trying. ...

A Piñata's Life (2021)

A piñata experiences the same fateful day over and over again, on which it is bought by a girl and finds death at her garden party. Shocked, the piñata tries to break out of this eternal cycle. ...

Huis Clos (2021)

The bourgeoisie is having a celebration in a round room where eating, sipping, and dancing is followed by dancing, sipping and eating. This could go round and round forever. ...

Only a Child (2020)

Only a Child is an omnibus animation short that gives shape and colour to Severn Suzuki's original speech at the UN Summit in Rio (1992): a child's desperate call to action for our planet's future. ...

Salmon Men (2020)

The salmon want to reproduce. While the salmon men swim upstream in a testosterone-driven race, the women indulge in a fertility dance at the source of the river. But the roles aren't as clearly defined as the men expect. ...

Signs (2020)

An electrician follows his nightly routine setting up signs in the city. He goes through life unnoticed and out of touch with the world, until he realises which signs he should be paying attention to. ...

The Edge (2020)

A lone truck driver drives his load, a ferris wheel, through a remote desert landscape. Trapped in his fears and habits, he hardly dares to step out of the sheltered driver's cabin. His pastime of silhouettes accompanies him on his journey through no-man's ...

Schweinerei (2019)

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. ...

Them (2019)

A story about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different character follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard. ...

The Germans (2019)

Living through the air raids of the German Luftwaffe in 1940, a little boy, Paul, tries to explain to himself what's happening to the city during the nights he's taking shelter down in the London Underground. ...

Duodrom (2019)

Plagued by a condition that makes his skeleton literally jump out of his skin, a museum worker struggles to keep his body in one piece. ...

Life Is One of the Simplest (2019)

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. ...

The Lonely Orbit (2019)

Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the world's network to collapse. ...

Concrete (2019)

Troubled by his own reoccurring transformations, a restless backpacker seeks his place in the world. Through a mysterious encounter in a concrete building in the midst of a barren swampland, he hopes to have finally found such a place. ...

Kuap (2018)

A tadpole somehow misses out on becoming a frog and is left behind, alone. But there is much to discover in the pond and spring is sure to come again next year. A little story about growing up. ...

Coyote (2018)

A coyote loses its mate and pups in an attack by wolves. Plagued by human emotions, the coyote attempts to process what it has experienced. ...

Roar (2017)

A good-natured dinosaur has to stand his ground against a nasty opponent. ...

The Musical Dragon (2017)

Elegy (2017)

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. ...

Perfect Town (2017)

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 Five Minute Museum (2015)

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. ...

Sedel - Rock'n'Roll Kingdom (2013)

Lay Bare (2012)

A composite portrait of the human body assembled from details captured by close-up photography of over five hundred men and women of all ages and from all over the world. ...

Silver Forest (2011)

Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep in the f ...

Someone Besides You (2007)

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland, Europe, and the U.S. On their travels in mobile homes, they explore the depths of the human psyche in search ...

A Piñata's Life (2021)

A piñata experiences the same fateful day over and over again, on which it is bought by a girl and finds death at her garden party. Shocked, the piñata tries to break out of this eternal cycle. ...