Till Nowak

Till Nowak is a German digital artist and visual artist, graphic designer and filmmaker. He received recognition for his grad project, the 2005 film Delivery, and for his art piece The Experience of Fliehkraft and its film offshoot The Centrifuge Brain Project, both released in 2011, and more recently for his 2015 film Dissonance. in Bonn, Germany, and until 2008 lived in Mainz. At age 19 in 1999, he founded and began work in his own studio FrameboX. He has collaborated with his brother Nik Nowak, and states when the two get together the ideas flow.

After leaving Mainz in 2008, Nowak took up residence Hamburg. He is a member of both the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy. In spring of 2013, he was signed by UTA.

Projects Till Nowak is known for his 2005 film Delivery, his 2011 art piece The Experience of Fliehkraft, and the related award-winning 2011 film The Centrifuge Brain Project. The latter two focus on a series of odd (and physically impossible) rides that he was inspired to create when visiting an amusement park in 2008. Creating the sequences for the seven rides took three months, spread out through 2008 and 2011. including Ars Electronica in Linz the Transmediale in Berlin and the Seoul Biennale in South Korea and most recently at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris as part of L' Art Robotique through January 2015.

As Nowak began sharing his faux blueprints and realistic clips as part art installations, he released The Centrifuge Brain Project. Its creation was inspired by wanting "to create an even stronger clash between realism and absurdity."

Filmography

Epiphania (2005) (visual effects) Delivery (2005) (writer, director, producer) Göring - Eine Karriere (2006) (art director) Rommels Schatz (2007) (digital artist) Rommels Krieg (2007) (visual effects) Zum dritten Pol (2007) (visual effects) Mythos & Wahrheit – Der Kennedy-Mord (2007) (visual effects supervisor) Die Eylandt Recherche (2008) (visual effects supervisor) Flucht in die Freiheit – Mit dem Mut der Verzweiflung (2009) (animator) Flucht in die Freiheit – Mit allen Mitteln (2009) (animator) Der Wettlauf zum Südpol – Deutschland gegen Österreich (5 episodes, 2011) (animator) Der Wettlauf zum Südpol – Amundsen gegen Scott (1 episodes, 2011) (animator) Arthur Christmas (2011) (set designer) Alien Fans II (2012) (himself) The Centrifuge Brain Project (2012) Dissonance (2015) (writer, director, producer) Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) (art director)

Recognition In 2006, after Delivery had screened at Audi Festival of German Films in Australia, Die Woche in Australien Called Nowak a "rising young star" and praised Delivery as a successful exploration. Variety made note that Nowak "is a well known artist who made a splash with his directorial debut of the short film, The Delivery in 2005 which went on to win numerous awards including the Jury Award for Best Short and Audience Award for Best Short at the 2005 AFI Festival." When under 2015 Oscar consideration, his film Dissonance is described to be "Evocative of Christopher Nolan’s surreal Inception, as well as Michel Gondry’s sci-fi standout, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Partial awards and nominations Delivery 2005, Won both 'Short Award' and Audience Award' at AFI Fest 2005, Won Prix UIP Ghent (European Short Film) at Ghent International Film Festival 2005, Won Audience Award - Student Competition for 'Best Animation Film' at Wiesbaden goEast 2005, Won Hamburg Animation Award for 'Best Short Film' at OFFF Barcelona 2006, Won 2nd place Children's Jury Award at Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2006, Nominated for 'Best Short Film Award' at European Film Awards 2006, Won Audience Award at Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2006, Won 'Best Animation' at Tehran Short Film Festival 2006, Won Festival Prize for 'Best Animation' at Toronto Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival 2007, Won Gold Award for 'Animation' at Crested Butte Film Festival 2007, Won Jury Award for 'Best Animated Short' at Durango Film Festival 2007, Won Special Jury Award for 'Best Short Film' at Montecatini Filmvideo – International Short Film Festival 2007, Won both 'Director's Choice Award' and 'Excellence in Filmmaking' at Sedona International Film Festival 2007, Won Golden Glibb for 'Best Short Film' at Weekend of Fear, Nuremberg, Germany 2007, Won Jury Award for 'Best Animation' at Byron Bay International Film Festival for the film Delivery

The Experience of Fliehkraft

2011, Won honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2011, Won juried runner up at SIGGRAPH 2011. 2012, Nominated for Le Cristal d'Annecy at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2012, Won Jury Award for 'Best Short Short' at Aspen Shortsfest 2012, Won Youth Jury Award Honorable Mention for 'National Competition' at Filmfest Dresden 2012, Won Short Film Award in Gold for 'Outstanding Short Film' at German Short Film Awards 2012, Won Audience Liberté Award for 'International Competition' at Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2012, Won Russian Film Clubs Federation Award and a First Place award for 'Best Short Film' at Moscow International Film Festival 2012, Won Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis for 'Outstanding Short Film' at German Short Film Awards 2012, Won Audience Award at Filmfest München 2012, Won Audience Award in 'German Competition' and won 'Best German Short Film Special Mention' at Regensburg Short Film Week 2012, Won Kurosawa Award for creative excellence at 24FPS International Short Film Festival' 2012, Won 'Best Producer' at Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Dissonance

2015, Won 'Jury Award' Grand Prix at Anima Mundi Animation Festival 2015, Won 'Sacem Award for Original Music' at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2015, Won Prix UIP Berlin at Berlin International Film Festival for Till Nowak 2015, Won Audience Award for 'Best Animated Short Film' at Fancine Festival de Cine Fantastico de la Universidad de Malaga 2015, won 'Best Animation' at Aspen Shortsfest International 2015, nominated for Golden Berlin Bear for 'Best Short Film' by European Film Academy at Berlin International Film Festival 2015, Won Deutscher Filmmusikpreis (German Film Music Award) for 'Best Music in a Film' at German Film Score Awards 2015, nominated for 'Best Short Film' at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015, Won VFX Award for 'Best Visual Effects' at HollyShorts Film Festival 2015, nominated for European Film Award for 'European Short Film' at European Film Awards 2015, Won Don Quixote Award at Krakow Film Festival 2015, Won Best International ShortWork Award for 'Best International Shortfilm' at Whistler Film Festival 2016, Won 'Best Use of Digital Technology in a Short Film' at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2016, nominated for 'Best Animated Short Subject' at Annie Awards