The waiting

DIRECTOR Volker Schlecht
AUTHOR Max Mönch, Alexander Lahl
PRODUCTORS Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch
CAST Karen Lips

Volker Schlecht | Germany | 2023 | 15’35’’

A researcher lives for a few years in a hut in the forest of Costa Rica to study a certain kind of fluorescent frogs. One day they simply disappear and Karen Lips waits in vain for their return.

VOLKER SCHLECHT works as an illustrator, artist and filmmaker in Berlin. He studied communication design at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and worked for several years as a graphic designer at moniteurs, Berlin. After that he became an assistent teacher at the animation department of the Film University Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg, before he changed to the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule as lecturer, later as a professor of sequential illustration. Since March 2022 he is professor of drawing.