In an effort to get back to the top, a washed-up YouTube star decides to blackmail an old high school rival. But when things go awry, she finds herself ensnared by a group of neo-nazis, trafficking drugs across the Texas / Mexico border. How Non-Actors Make a Story More Real in ‘The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia’ An interview with filmmaker Chris Beier about his acting background and non-actor performers in the Austin Film Festival feature The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia.(Nofilmschool.com)
yence-studio.com — was featured on (Klikkenthéke): Neue Web Design Catalogue, a daily showcase of contemporary web design curated by Division Binaural to inspire designers, developers, and HTML enthusiasts. Published as Entry No. 1191 on June 19, 2025, the site was recognized for its bold visual language — including its typography by Matter of Sorts (MatterOfSorts), its brutalist structure, serif typefaces, spacious grid layouts, and a clean printed black-and-white palette. Designed by Jens Wagner/ YENCE Studio and developed upon (LayTheme, by 100k Studio). Tagged for its use of animation, big titles, white space, and simplicity. The feature highlights our commitment to thoughtful, expressive design.
This project was developed in collaboration with students from Macromedia University of Applied Arts in Stuttgart, as part of an advanced course in experimental typography. The approach centered on engaging typography both as a functional system and as a medium for visual expression. Through this process, it became clear that grounding students in the fundamentals—structure, hierarchy, rhythm, and legibility—while encouraging them to push the boundaries of typographic form through publication design, yields the most compelling results. The outcome is a series of editorial experiments that combine formal precision with a strong sense of visual exploration, reflecting both conceptual depth and technical skill.
Anchorage, Scott Monahan’s dark drama about two brothers who take off on an ill-advised drug-running mission to Alaska, has won the 2021 Oldenburg International Film Festival, taking the German Independence Award for best film.
Over the course of one week, CROSSWORD tracks an unraveling couple’s fragile emotional state as they grapple with the death of their daughter. Anchoring by powerful, grounded performances by our two main characters, we feel for both husband and wife as they each attempt to navigate life and marriage in the wake of tragedy. The film is a masterclass in allowing the audience to discover the plot as it unfolds: it never tells us directly what our characters are battling, but it shows us in their every glance (…)
