Lizard hunt

ECHSENJAGD

Germany / / 00:03:00 min

A giant lizard is making Paris unsafe, but the Trio Lézard sets out to catch it again. An animated music video to a tango by Igor Stravinsky set in Paris in the 1920s. A Dadaist collage of historical photos, green screen shots and cut-out animation in a silent film aesthetic. The film is a collaboration between TRIO LÈZARD and Matthias Daenschel TrickFilmProduktion. It is based on Stravinsky's tango from the album “Le Tango des Fratellini” released by Coviello 2022.
Monday, 24 August 2026 21:00
Block 3
Kaiserhof +


Film maker
Matthias Daenschel

MATTHIAS DAENSCHEL was born in Mannheim in 1970. He began his artistic career with an apprenticeship as a theater painter at the Schaubühne in Berlin. After three years as a theater painter at the Vienna State Opera, he studied animation at the HFF in Potsdam. For 25 years he has been working as a freelance animator and filmmaker for cinema and TV productions, for advertising and explanatory films, as well as for theater, music and opera productions. His award-winning short films are shown at festivals around the world.