Sergej Hein

I am a Moving Image, Fine Arts and Animation 3rd Year Student at the University of East London.

I am interested in the space between reality and fiction and making experiments with surreal fragments in supposed real scenarios. My main fields of activity are moving image and photography. I am keen to get involved in bigger projects combining animation and film.

As a child of a German mother and a Russian father I was born in Riga (Latvia) before my family moved to Germany. I am currently living in London and have been here for two years.

sergejhein[at]me.com

Oct 27 2009

Berlin Block Tetris

An animation I made for Uni. Everything is made in After Effects without Plugins. 

The idea is based on a kind of parody of the former Socialist building style. They used to build whole cities where each house was designed identically to create cheap housing for workers.  These ‘blocks’ were so similar that in Soviet times, you could easily wake up at a friends place in another city and still feel like you are in your flat. Even the furniture was the same.

Check out my Interview for this on YouTube´s “Creator’s Corner Blog” video-creativity.blogspot.com/2009/10/howd-they-do-that-berlin-block-tetris.html

Screenings 2010

sixteen:nine International Film Festival, Mumbay, India, 16th January 2010

Vimeo Offline, San Francisco, USA, 7th March 2010

East End Film Festival, London, UK, 26th April 2010

Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart, Germany, 5th May 2010

6th International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany, 9th - 13th June 2010

Fest Anca 2010, Zilina, Slovakia, 30th July 2010

Beyond Media, Florence, Italy, December 2010

Screenings 2009

Sofia Architecture Week, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3rd November 2009

Some Screenshots on Flickr

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