Hooked on Illusions
Laura Isabel Schneider
Germany | 2024 | 4’28 | Italian Premiere
In this hand-painted and drawn animation, a lonely old man fishes his dreams from the moon’s reflection.
Looking inside them, he faces surreal and devastating nightmares until a spiritual discovery frees him from all illusions.
Director: Laura Isabel Schneider
School: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
Laura Isabel Schneider (*1996) is a German-Spanish animator and director. After an exchange semester at the HSLU in Switzerland and a shorter exchange with the Tehran University of Art, she graduated from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (DE) with a Bachelor’s degree in Animation in 2023. Since then she has been living in her hometown Cologne, Germany.
