Julia Soost and Veit Vergara win animated film competition of the Konzerthaus Munich

The responsible persons in the Bavarian Ministry for Art and Science therefore sought contact with the Mozarteum University. The idea was to create a teaser, a 2 to 3 minute animated film with an analog look and musical accompaniment for Konzerthaus München, which is currently in the planning stage, representing a new approach to music and thus appealing especially to a young audience. The students and alumni from the fields of stage and costume design, film and exhibition architecture as well as applied music, themselves part of this target group, put themselves into this exciting task and submitted their films within an internally announced student competition, which was supervised by the filmmaker and video artist Dipl. Alexander du Prel as well as by Michael Mautner.

The 1st prize, endowed with 3,000 euros, went to Julia Soost and Veit Vergara with their animated film "Rubato". " It captivates with its richness of nuance and extraordinary craftsmanship. This is not a conventional 'commercial' clip. This carefully crafted animated film by the team of Soost and Vergara unfolds in a constant flow a musical arc of images touching in its unheard-of magic, which leaves you amazed again and again - not least because of the imaginative metamorphoses - and captivates you until the last second ", says du Prel about the animated film duo. The 2nd prize, endowed with 1,500 euros, was awarded to Gerlinde Radler and Gustav Wocher. The two 3rd prizes and the prize money of 500 euros each went to Pia Imbar and Erik Stocker as well as Franziska Haberlander, Kerstin Robinson and Sarah Kazemiyeh . 

The jury: Christine McAuliffe (Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art Director of Studies) Alexander Kukelka (composer, conductor, pianist, former President of the Austrian Composers' Association) Alexander Gratzer (filmmaker)