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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, flash animation, digital drawing, digital compositing, imagination, escapism, memory, experimental short film, filmmaker, animation artist

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**Fact** a film by Sebastian Buerkner. in production

[Sebastian Buerkner](http://sebastianbuerkner.com/)

![Fact, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fact01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made more bearable by mentally morphing space and time. But the real world continues, demanding, undermining, overwhelming…

Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.

### key credits

**director**
Sebastian Buerkner

### Sebastian Buerkner

#### short biography

Sebastian studied painting in Germany then moved to London to complete his fine art education with an MA at Chelsea College in 2002, where he was awarded a Fellowship residency the following year. His work has been exhibited in several group and solo shows internationally. Since 2004 his art practice has shifted exclusively to animation. Sebastian is also a projectionist at the Rio Cinema, London.

June 2005

#### artist’s website

[Sebastian Buerkner](http://www.sebastianbuerkner.com)

Sebastian’s website

### a film by Sebastian Buerkner

### direction

**director**
Sebastian Buerkner

© Sebastian Buerkner 2005

[![Fact, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fact01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/fact01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Fact, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fact02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/fact02.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Fact, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/fact03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/fact03.jpg)

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### technical

#### process summary

Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.

*Fact* film, stills and other materials © Sebastian Buerkner 2005