Klanglicht

What if you could hear with light?

The groundbreaking technology of an optogenetic cochlear implant – a therapeutic approach currently being developed under the leadership of the University Medical Center Göttingen — promises a new auditory experience compared to conventional cochlear implants.
What does it feel like to hear music for the first time after years of silence? Or to perceive it with greater clarity and nuance than ever before?

This animated short – made up of approx. 2,500 hand-drawn frames – sets out to translate this human experience into an audiovisual form.

MEDIA COVERAGE

Stash Magazine
Motionographer
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Made in Shoreditch
Göttinger Tagesblatt

FILM FESTIVALS

San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2025
Lisbon Screendance Festival 2025

Directed and animated by BORIS SEEWALD
Music by RALF HILDENBEUTEL
Dance & Choreography MARIE ZECHIEL

Rotoscopy MIWHA SEEWALD
Camera BENJAMIN WISTORF

Commissioned by JENNY BLUM
for UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN