Andreas Hykade

A mousetrap snaps shut. A dusty town square awakens. A group of men debate how to kill the animal in the little box – each trying to outdo the others’ increasingly sadistic fantasies. Until a stranger suggests letting the creature loose. A voice of reason? Or the sickest manipulator of them all?

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

Myself tries to remember the secret of the universe.

"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt Disney.

An animated riff on Melies wherein an animated face keeps transforming into different homages.

Animated short of a Cowboys' psychedelic Odyssey.

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

Myself tries to remember the secret of the universe.

An animated riff on Melies wherein an animated face keeps transforming into different homages.

Animated short of a Cowboys' psychedelic Odyssey.

Animated short of a Cowboys' psychedelic Odyssey.

Myself tries to quit smoking.

A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.

A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.

An anagrammatic exorcism of David Bowie's album title "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars." He explores the aesthetic possibilities and joys of metamorphosis through artificial intelligence using the language of rock 'n' roll—and also very much in the spirit of the master of pop metamorphosis, David Bowie himself.

Hykade's third and final part of The Country Trilogy. The once dead father of "We Lived in Grass" returns. "I give you the runt," he says. "But you take care of it and you kill it next year."

"We Lived in Grass" (1995) is a student film and Hykade's first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two streets away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy. "All women is whore and all men is soldier," the father of the boy says. "So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find." As the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price.

"We Lived in Grass" (1995) is a student film and Hykade's first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two streets away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy. "All women is whore and all men is soldier," the father of the boy says. "So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find." As the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price.

Myself introduces a film festival

War, what is it good for?

War, what is it good for?