4 minutes 16 seconds
Germany
2025

“Dr. Dr. Themefart, Frustrating Himself, Posed As Gay Old Nazi SS” is an
anagrammatic exorcism of David Bowie’s album title “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars”. This film by acclaimed animation director Andreas Hykade and AI artist Isabel Kohlhagen realised by production companies Studio Film Bilder and Frischvergiftung
explores the aesthetic possibilities and, yes, joys of metamorphosis via Artificial
Intelligence – right along the lines of The Sound of Money’s liquifying play with the
musical language of Rock’n Roll; and, almost needless to say, also very much in the
vein of the master metamorphician of Pop himself, David Bowie.

Director: Andreas Hykade
Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Maximilian Pfisterer, Willy Löbl