.Not dead, only sleeping!
30.8.2011, posted by Cinema Bochén
Our dear, avid readers!
We know that it must be frustrating for you, our dear visitors, to open this fine site everyday only to be disappointed anew by the lack of updates.
But fear not! As the title already suggests, Cinema Bochén is not dead at all, only sleeping! Mmmhh, sleep...
In fact, new and exciting things are developing, oh yes!
But what will it be? What will it do? How will it look like? How will it change everything (again!)? And, most importantly, will it go well with my purse?
Patience young grasshopper! All in due time, all in due time...
And while you wait you could watch some of our music videos or read all the great news posts again!
.I am Cereals - Galaxy is finished!
21.3.2011, posted by Cinema Bochén
It's done, it's wrapped, it's alive!
After almost nine months of work including five months of shooting, 'I am Cereals - Galaxy' - the new music video by Mirjam Baker and Michael Kren is finally finished!
UPDATE: The video is online! You can either watch it on YouTube or on this fancy website that was created just for this happy occasion. We hope you like it!
You have to be a little more patient though, since it won't be online and on TV until next week, BUT! Galaxy will have it's festival premiere on Wednesday, March 23rd at the Diagonale 2011, the biggest festival for Austrian film in Graz!
So, if you want a sneak peak at our latest creation, come to the Schubertkino at 14:00 - we'll be there!
Prepare yourself and read everything about the Diagonale 2011 here, if you don't want to come 'supernackt'.
.We Won't Break at the museum!
31.1.2011, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are very excited to announce that Mirjam Baker and Mike Kren's music video for Zoot Woman's We Won't Break will be screened at the exhibition "The Art of Pop Video" in the Museum of Applied Art in Cologne, Germany!
It will be one of around 100 classic music videos from acts like Michael Jackson, Pieter Gabriel, Daft Punk, Björk... and from directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and many others.
Needless to say that we are very honored and proud that our video will be part of this fantastic event!
The exhibition will be the biggest the museum will host this year and will last from April 9th to July 3rd.
More information about the exhibition can be found here
So, if you ever wanted to watch music videos in an atmosphere of art and culture rather than your messy appartment, now is the time!
.Cinema Bochén sponsored by Nikon!
15.10.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are very happy and proud to announce that Mirjam and Mike's next project, the stop motion music video for 'I am Cereals' upcoming new single is being sponsored by famous camera manufacturer Nikon!
We think that it's great that there are companies that support young filmmakers with cutting edge equipment in such an uncomplicated way.
And while you're at it please visit their website and buy a camera or two!
Thank you Nikon!
.Cinema Bochén in "Die Presse am Sonntag" ...and more!
15.10.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Cinema Bochén is in the news again! This time, we were invited by Austrian newspaper 'Die Presse' to participate in their 'Freiraum' series, where every week young people from the creative industries get the possibility to design a whole page of the newspaper however they like.
We had the idea to create a bunch of differnet cut out characters, props, a dinosaur (rawr!), special effects and whatnot that the bored and/or motivated reader could use to create a short animated movie with. A scan of the page is available here if you want to take a look at it and maybe even try for yourself!
We also promised that if someone really would do a short film with it and send it to us we would feature it here on our site. And who would have thought! We really got two submissions!
The first one is from 11 year old Anna, who made an adorable short stop motion animation that by the name of 'Love by Accident' featuring a couple, a gun, a ghost, a dinosaur (rawr!) a car crash and of course: love!
Thank you Anna, we loved your film!
The second film we've received is a charming and hilarious music video by Bruno Skorepa called Mama geh her. Bruno also composed and performed the song featured in the video, dealing with an everyday problem that concerns everyone of us: the difficulties one can run into on the way home from the pub. It's in viennese dialect but you can rest assured that it is indeed very funny if you are unable to understand a word.
Thank you very much for this Bruno, we really enjoyed the film and laughed a lot!
Speaking of which... Do you like Star Wars? Silly question, I know, because of course you do! Who doesn't? Well, in this case we strongly urge you to visit Bruno's website where you can watch even more hilarious animated music videos, all of them featuring our beloved green Jedi master from the swamps of Dagobah: Yoda!
Check them out here, they are great!
So thanks again to "Die Presse" for the opportunity and of course to Bruno and Anna, who invested much time and effort to create these two animated gems!
.New Music Video by Mirjam Baker and Michael Kren soon!
22.8.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are very happy to announce that Mirjam and Mike started working on a new music video, for Austrian electronic Band 'I am Cereals'!
The video will be for the first single of their new album, following their self titled debut from 2009, which was also nominated for Austrian music award 'Amadeus'.
We don't want to spoil too much about the video yet, other than it will again be an animation, this time a stop motion animation with self made puppets and sets and that it will tell a short story.
We are very much looking forward to working on the video and with the band!
You'll have to be patient for a little more though, because the single and the video won't be out until December.
But you know what they say: anticipation is the greatest pleasure!
In the meantime, you can check out the band's website and even buy their debut album here!
.Die Spektakelmaschine as a supporting film!
20.8.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Starting on September 10th, Mirjam and Mike's very first animation "Die Spektakelmaschine", which later became the official video for Zoot Woman's 'We Won't Break' will be screened at the charming 'Filmcasino' for two whole weeks as a supporting film for a feature film.
We are very happy about this, since we think that the supporting movie is a very nice tradition that should be kept alive or, probably more accurate, reanimated (no brain eating involved, though).
Also, this is a great and rare opportunity to see "Die Spektakelmaschine", which features additional scenes (well, it's actually only one, but I always wanted to say it this way) and a different Zoot Woman song as the soundtrack! So don't miss this historical opportunity, or you're going to regret it your whole life (right?!)!
Mirjam and Mike will be at the first screening on September 10th, so drop by if you'd like to have a beer and a chat!
We even provided a handy internet link to the website of Filmcasino here
.We Won't Break at Espressofilm!
10.8.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
It's finally summertime and we all know what this means, right? Exactly, open air cinema! There probably is no better way to spend a lush summer evening under the starry sky than with a couple of friends and a cold beverage of your choice, in a comfortable seat watching great films on the big screen accompanied by the soft chirping of crickets...
Well, since we've got you in the mood now, why don't you join us on Friday, August 27th at the beautiful 'Gartenpalais Schönborn' in Vienna?
'We Won't Break' will be screened in course of 'Espressofilm' film festival in the special "FM4 Garden Sessions" programme, where our favorite radio station FM4 put together an 80 minutes long programme with selected music videos from Austria. Hah, we'll see what the crickets will say about this!
It's going to be free entry too, so you have no excuse not to come, really.
Well ok, maybe if you are not from around here but Vienna is just lovely at this time of the year!
Read everything about the FM4 Garden Sessions here
.Love goes through the stomach!
8.8.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Last week, the 'Shortynale' short film festival in Klosterneuburg, Austria was held, with the charming theme 'All you need is love'.
'Memory' was running in the competition too, which makes us very happy, because the Shortynale was one of the nicest festivals we've been to, actually.
Very nice people and a great, relaxed atmosphere, even the popcorn at the theater had just the right amount of salt on it.
Austrian Oscar winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky was there as well, talking about his career and experiences. One of his dearest hobbies (next to making films of course) is, in fact, cooking and after the screenings he made a delicious (and spicy!) asian wok meal for the film makers and the whole audience!
So, have you ever eaten a meal prepared by an Oscar winning director? Well, we have!
We had a great time and are already looking forward to the next Shortynale!
Read everything about the festival here
.Memory is big in Japan!
23.6.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Today we found out that our video for 'Memory' seems to be quite popular in Japan! So popular in fact, that someone made a hommage to it and created his own version of the video! In this version, being from Japan and all, the protagonist doesn't use slides to remember his lost love, but a Nintendo DS handheld and his object of desire is actually a 3D animated girl from the game 'Love Plus' (well, actually it seems to be a 'dating simulation'...), which seems to be wildly popular in Japan.
So popular in fact, that the video accumulated 400.000 Views on the japanese video portal 'nicovideo' in just under 10 days and even Yahoo! Japan wrote a news article about it. Wow, who would have imagined? We feel very honored and flattered!
You'll need an account to watch the video on nicovideo, which can be a bit hard to create because of the language barrier.
But luckily for us Gaijins, it has found its way to YouTube, too. You can watch it here.
Domo arigato, Japan!
.Memory at the VIS...and more!
24.5.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Hey, it's festival time again! This time we are very happy to announce that Memory will be in the Austrian competition at the 'Vienna Independent Shorts', a very charming and respected festival!
But if this wouldn't be cool enough, this time Mirjam was also invited to attend a panel discussion about the state of Austrian animated film! We are all very proud of her! The other participants in the discussion are Thomas Renoldner, Wiktoria Pelzer and Sigi A. Fruhauf, all of them being respected figures of the Austrian animation scene and Barbara Fränzen from Austria's ministry of art and culture.
Memory will be screened on May 28th in the Metro Kino at 6pm and the panel discussion will be on May 30th at 4.30pm also in the Metro Kino.
So make sure to drop by if you'd like to see the video on the big screen or if you want to join us pulling faces at Mirjam from the audience to distract her!
Read everything about the festival here
.GoTV - We're part of it!
20.5.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are very excited to announce that Mirjam and Mike have been invited by Austrian music television channel 'gotv' to host one of their "Hosted by" shows! Meaning that Mirjam and Mike have a full hour at their disposal to show you, the beloved audience, twelve hand picked music videos that they love. Pretty cool, isn't it?
We feel very honored because we love gotv (in fact, it is the best music television channel in german speaking territory) and because normally only famous musicians are given that honor. So wow, we're going to sit on the same couch as 'insert name of your favourite artist here' did!
But not everything is fun and games, because it was in fact very hard to pick the videos. It was like having to make a mixtape for all the beautiful girls in the world at the same time while having to additionally draw little pictures for every song that are supposed to go well together, too! Yeah, I know, life can be really hard sometimes!
So, I guess you are all hot and bothered now to see the show but sadly you'll have to wait until 9pm at July 28th 2010 to see it. Unfair, I know, but isn't anticipation one of the greatest joys?
In the meantime, you can check out gotv's website here
.Memory wins the Golden Victoria for best Music Video!
16.4.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Good news everyone!
We're back from the 'Internationale Wirtschaftsfilmtage' in Vienna (ok, it wasn't THAT far away but let's just say that we are sober again) and are very happy to report that Memory won 'Best Music Video'! How cool is that?
We are very proud of the award, the stylish and very heavy (!) Golden Victoria, especially because one of our competitors was a video for Austrian legend Falco by Rudi Dolezal who is famous for directing music videos for artists like Queen, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Michael Jackson and multiple other bands of this caliber. So yeah, it's very cool!
Strangely enough though, neither David Bowie nor Mick Jagger called yet, they surely must have misplaced our number...
You can read everything about the event and the winners here.
.Memory is iTunes' US Video of the Week!
22.3.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are proud to announce that Memory will be the 'Music Video Of The Week' in the US iTunes Store!
Well, what does that mean for you, you might ask? The answer is easy: you can download the video for free!
Meaning that now you are able to take it with you wherever you go without being restricted to this silly internet thing.
So show it to your pets! Show it to your pals! Or print it out and draw over every frame (we heard that's actually a lot of fun)! The possibilities are endless!
What are you waiting for? Get it while it's hot!
.Mirjam makes the front page!
27.2.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Today, a stylized portrait of Mirjam graced the front page of Austria's well known and respected newspaper 'Die Presse'!
As one of only four women - whose animations are screened at the Tricky Women International Animation Festival 2010 - Mirjam was invited to draw a portrait in the same style as her contribution to the festival - in her case the video to Zoot Woman - Memory and to give a short interview about her work and animation in general!
Intrigued? Well, of course you are!
Luckily for you, we've scanned the front page and the article for you to enjoy!
An online version of the whole article is also available here.
.Mirjam and Mike in the News!
26.2.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Well, how about that?
Today Austria's biggest TV station - the national public service broadcaster ORF - brought a news-report about Mirjam and Mike including a short interview!
You can watch it here in case you've missed it.
.Widerstand in Haiderland!
30.1.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Widerstand in Haiderland is the new documentary by our professor, friend and award winning director Frederick Baker. The film deals with the rather sad political situation in Austria in early 2000, where the conservative ÖVP was able to form a coalition with Jörg Haider's right wing FPÖ, leading to a time of international political isolation and shame for Austria but also to months and months of weekly demonstrations against this government - the "Donnerstagsdemos".
So why are we telling you all this? Because Cinema Bochén contributed a bit of animation to the film! So there you have another great reason to go to the theater and see it!
Widerstand in Haiderland will premiere on thursday, February 4th, on the date of the 10th anniversary of Schwarz/Blau - that's how the coalition of ÖVP and FPÖ was called - in the Filmcasino in Vienna.
More information about Frederick Baker here and Widerstand in Haiderland here (official press release, .doc)
.Mirjam and Mike in the FM4 Morning Show!
22.1.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Today, Mirjam and Mike had the pleasure of being live guests in the FM4 morning show where they were interviewed about the story behind the award winning video for Zoot Woman's We Won't Break among other things!
If you were one of the unlucky few whose radio had no reception or was out of battery, fear not!
Once again we've utilized the wonders of modern technology and recorded the show!
You can download this modern miracle here: FM4 Morningshow (.mp3, ~7MB)
Please right-click the link and save the file, we've been told that streaming does not always work, thanks!
.Memory and Crossword at the Diagonale 2010!
18.1.2010, posted by Cinema Bochén
Wow! Memory and Crossword will be screened at the Diagonale 2010 in Graz, which is one of the most important filmfestivals in Austria!
While Crossword will be screened in the music video category - following We Won't Break's appearance at the festival in 2008 - Memory will be screened in the official 'Short Film' category!
So it is probably not too hard to imagine how proud we are!
The Diagonale will be held from March 16-21 and we hope to see you all there!
More Information about the festival here
.Memory and Crossword at Tricky Women 2010!
17.12.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
As the title suggests, our two latest videos will be screened at the Tricky Women 2010 festival in Vienna!
Tricky Women is a charming festival with an international reputation that specializes in animated film made entirely by women or where women played a crucial part in the production.
While Crossword will be featured in the 'Austrian Panorama' category, Memory will be running in the international competition!
We feel quite honored and are very happy to return to Tricky Women, since it was the first festival we ever participated in.
See you in March!
More Information about the festival here
.New York, New York! It's so nice, you have to post about it twice!
9.12.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
They sure took their time deciding who won but now the results are finally in and we are proud to announce that our video for Zoot Woman's 'We Won't Break' won 'Best International Music Video" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2009!
So wow, New York! Thanks a lot!
...I am glad that it's not my turn to clean up after the party!
See a list of all winners here
.Memory wins the Content Award!
1.12.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
Yesterday, the Viennese 'Zentrum fuer Innovation und Technologie ZIT' - or in english: 'Center for Technology and Innovation' - awarded the best and most innovative films and games with the 'Content Award'.
Why are we telling you this you might ask?
Well, the answer is because 'Memory' managed to place first in the 'Open' category, meaning that besides a very stylish award we won 5000&euro as well!
I am lacking the right adjective to express how happy and proud we are, so I just say thank you!
You can watch all winners and nominees here: http://www.contentaward.at/auszeichnungen/449
.Cinema Bochén wins big at the Golden Wire 2009!
26.11.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
Great news again!
Today, the Golden Wire - as the St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences' media award is called - was awarded for the sixth time and Cinema Bochén won big!
While Crossword won best animation, Memory won in the shortfilm category and the audience award as well! Wow!
We had a great time at the very charming event (first time we've walked on an actual red carpet!) and are very proud of the awards! They look brilliant on our studio's walls!
Thank you!
You can read more about the Golden Wire awards here: http://goldenwire.fhstp.ac.at/
.Memory won the Hubert Sielecki Special Award for Best Animation at the film:riss festival in Salzburg!
16.11.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
The hangover from the party after winning the Aniwow! Award was almost cured but now 'Memory' has won again!
This time, it won the Hubert Sielecki Special Award for "Best Animation" at the film:riss festival for student film culture in Salzburg, Austria!
We are especially proud of this award because Mr. Sielecki is considered a true expert on this matter who dedicated his whole life to the subject of animation (which really is not an easy thing to do in Austria!).
So our sincere thanks go out to him and of course to Dominik Tschuetscher and Katja Jaeger and their wonderful team for organizing the festival year after year!
We had a great time in Salzburg and met a lot of interesting people and it would be great to be part of the film:riss festival again next year. We'll sure try!
You can check out the (german) website of the festival at http://filmriss.at
Oh dear, I'm already scared of the next party...
.Memory won "Best Digital Short" at Aniwow!2009 in Beijing!
31.10.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are thrilled to announce that 'Memory' won "Best Digital Short" at the Aniwow!2009 Festival in Beijing, China!
Sadly we were unable to make it to Beijing in person but we are extremely proud of our first international award!
If you happen to be fluent in chinese you can read about the awards here!
Thank you so much Aniwow!
...now where is my party hat and who took the bottle of champagne?!
.Wow! cinema bochén goes to Aniwow! in Beijing!
28.10.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are very proud to announce that both 'Memory' and 'Crossword' will be in the international competition of the Aniwow! 2009 International Student Animation Festival in Beijing, China!
Besides the competition, the well-known festival features great talks and workshops in collaboration with famous institutions like Dreamworks Animation, SIGGRAPH, CALARTS, Ubisoft, GOBELINS, Film Academy of Baden Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart International Animation Festival and many more!
More information about the festival here!
.cinema bochén
goes New York City
9.10.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are thrilled to announce that the video for Zoot Woman's 'We Won't Break' will be running in the competition at the New York Independent International Video and Film Festival which is one of the largest independent film festivals in the world!
Over the years of its existence, the festival has included the work of Abel Ferrara, Andy Garcia, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Guy Pearce, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, Jennifer Aniston and many more!
The festival will be held from October 22nd to 29th while 'We Won't Break' will be screened on Saturday, October 24th in the legendary East Village Cinemas in Manhattan.
So if you are in the vicinity and would like to see our video as well as say 'Hi' to Mike and Mirjam be sure to drop by!
More information about the festival here: http://www.nyfilmvideo.com
.Mirjam Baker in Switzerland!
1.10.2009, posted by Mirjam Baker
I am currently in Switzerland, doing an exchange program at Hochschule
Luzern at the animation department. Together with my college Jessica
Studer we are doing a three minutes puppet animation. At the moment we
are in preproduction. The short film should be finished in February 2010.
.cinema bochén
representing in The Hague!
29.9.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
We are proud to announce that all three of our videos are running in the competition at the international music video festival 'Shoot-Me' in The Hague, Netherlands!
Not too shabby considering that three out of twenty videos total came from Cinema Bochén!
So drop by, if you are in The Hague from October 15 - 25!
More Information about the festival can be acquired here:
http://www.shoot-me.nl
.German Art Blog 'kunstblogbuch.de'
analyses 'We Won't Break'!
27.9.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
Kunstblogbuch.de wrote a charming article about Mirjam and Mike's Video for We Won't Break, where they analyzed all the famous paintings shown in the animation and give interesting insights about them.
Read it all in german here:
http://www.kunstblogbuch.de/2009/06/17/zoot-woman-we-wont-break
Thank you Kunstblogbuch.de, we loved it!
.Zoot Woman Interview
on Motor.de
25.9.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
German online alternative music and culture site motor.de had the opportunity to interview Adam Blake, the drummer of 'Zoot Woman' during their recent european tour.
The band's cooperation with Mirjam and Mike is one of the discussed topics.
If you are fluent in german and would like to read it, you can do so here:
http://www.motor.de
FM4 interviews
Mike Kren about Memory!
22.9.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
Today, Mike Kren was interviewed live by austrian alternative radio station FM4 about the video for Memory!
Utilizing the wonders of modern technology we were able to record it and put it here for you to download if you would like to hear it.
It's in german of course so if you don't understand it just image him saying as many smart/funny/wise/insightful things about the video as he was able to considering that the interview only lasted a few minutes and that he was shaking the whole time.
Interview FM4 (.mp3, ~6MB)
Spex reviews 'Memory'
22.9.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
Acclaimed german rock and pop culture magazine 'Spex' wrote a review about our video for 'Memory'!
It's in german, so if you are not fond of this strange sounding language and would like to know what they wrote we can proudly tell you that they liked it!
The german understanding people can read it here:
http://www.spex.de/2009/09/21/zoot-woman-memory-video
Thanks Spex!
Zoot Woman - Memory released!
20.9.2009, posted by Cinema Bochén
Our new video for 'Memory', the third single of british electronic band 'Zoot Woman''s critically acclaimed third album "Things Are What They Used To Be" is released as of today!
Directed by Mirjam Baker and Michael Kren, produced with support of the other fine chaps and gals at Cinema Bochén as well as with a bunch of friends, the video is a mixture of live action footage and hand drawn animation and was wholly shot and produced in our hometown, Vienna.
You can watch it at our projects page, YouTube, Vimeo or another fine outlet for music videos of your liking.
We hope you enjoy it!
