Fast Film
a film by Virgil Widrich
World Premiere: Cannes 2003 - Séléction Officielle, Short Film Competition
Austria/Luxembourg // 2003 // 14 min // 35mm // Farbe // dolby digital
Synopsis
A kiss, a happy couple. But then, the woman is kidnapped, and the man sets off to save her. A dramatic rescue story full of wild chase scenes begins. The audience is taken to the center of the Earth and the enemy’s headquarters. On its surface, Fast Film tells a simple story. The catch is that all its scenes were taken from 300 different works produced in the course of film history, and the heroes change identities in an equal number of times. But as in Virgil Widrich’s Copy Shop (2001), the extraordinary technology used during production is the first thing that stands out about Fast Film. No less than 65,000 paper printouts of individual images were employed. After being folded into thousands of objects such as planes and train cars and arranged in complex tableaux, they were photographed with a simple digital camera and loaded into a computer image by image. At least three different images, the background, the foreground image and an intermediate zone, were used to make up each frame. In certain sequences, this increases to 30 visual layers. The fast and furious story of Fast Film unfolds on the surfaces of the paper objects. Its twists and turns are so well thought-out that additional details can be found in each viewing. What was initially intended to be an homage to action movies breaks new ground in the genre because of its extreme density. This tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood, lasts just 14 minutes: truly a fast film which could hardly be more furious.
| Written & Directed by | Virgil Widrich |
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| Camera | Martin Putz |
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| Animation Supervision | Walter Rafelsberger, Markus Loder-Taucher |
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| Animation | Gernot Egger, Michael Lang, Markus Loder-Taucher, Alexandra Pauser, David Reischl, Walter Rafelsberger, Christian Ursnik, Vinh-San Nguyen, Carmen Völker, Mario Waldhuber, Gerald Zahn |
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| Additional Animation | Eveline Consolati, Thomas Grundnigg, Andreas Künz, Stefan Braulik |
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| Sound Design | Frédéric Fichefet |
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| Origami and Objectdesign | Mine Scheid, Jakob Scheid, Carmen Völker |
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| Sound Assistant | Markus Reumann |
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| 2k Supervision | Michel Dimmer |
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| 2k Filmtransfer | PTD Studio, Luxembourg |
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| Sound Studio | Waltzing-Parke Audio, Luxembourg |
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| Film printing laboratory | Synchro Film Wien |
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| Co-Producers | Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu |
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| Producers | Bady Minck, Virgil Widrich |
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| Production | Virgil Widrich Film & AMOUR FOU Luxembourg is association with AMOUR FOU Vienna |
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| Supported by | Filmfund Luxembourg, Filmfonds Wien, BKA-Kunstsektion Wien, ORF Innovationsfonds, Land Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg |
Awards & Nominations
Best Animated Short (C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Award) - Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto 2003
Best Editing - Festival inCURT, Tarragona, Spanien
Special mention of the Jury - Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spanien
Main Award for Animation (Grande Prémio Animação) - Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde, Portugal 2003
RTP-TV Selection (RTP Onda Curta) - Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde, Portugal 2003
Best Experimental Short Film - 52. Int. Film Festival, Melbourne 2003
Audience Award - Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MN / Boulder, CO USA 2003
Most Imaginative Film - Odense Film Festival, Odense 2003
Audience Award - l'Etrange Festival, Paris 2003
High Risk Award - Fantoche - 4. Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Zürich 2003
Award of Milan Filmstudents and special mention of the Jury - Milano Film Festival 2003
Best Experimental Film - Panorama of Independent Film & Video Makers, Thessaloniki 2003
Prix Special Lyceens - Cinessonne - Festival du Cinéma Européen, Essonne - ex aequo "Ligne de vie" von Serge Avedikian
Best Film in its Category (10 bis 30 Minuten) - Krok Film Festival
Special Mention - Festival International Nouveau Cinéma
Special Mention - Festival du Film de Saint Paul 3 Châteaux
Most Innovativ Short Film - Int. Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
Grand Prix - Uppsala Short Film Festival
Premio de la Comunidad de Madrid a la Mejor Película - Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid
Onda Curta, 2. Award and Special Mention of the Jury - Cinanima 2003, Portugal
Special Mention of the Jury - Interfilm Berlin Filmfestival
Milagro Award for Best Animation - Santa Fe Film Festival
Innova Award - Animadrid, Spanien
Jury's Choice Award - Black Maria Film Festival
Grand Prix - Nevers 2003 - Sceni qua non
Peter Wilde Award - Ann arbor Film Festival
2nd Prize - MFA Planet Europe, Palma de Mallorca
Grand Prix du Jury - 2003 Plan 9 - La Cheaux-de-Fonds, Suisse
Best Experimental - Carbunari 2004, Romania
Film Critics Award - Animafest Zagreb
City of Zagreb Award - Animafest Zagreb
Croatian Film makers Guild Award - Animafest Zagreb
reanimated Veronica - Best animated Film - Tabor Film Festival
Best Editing Award Spudfest 2004
ASIFA Korea Prize for best Experimental SICAF 04
Special Mention Morbegno Film Festival
Cartoon d'Or - best Animation Cartoon Forum Galicia
Best Video/Computer Artwork Asolo Film Festival
Jury Award Animateka
Best Experimental Film Balkanima, Belgrad
Best Experimental Film Festival Internacional Filmets Badalona
Festivals
Cannes 2003 - Selection Officielle Competition Court Métrage
Annecy 2003 - Festival International du Cinema d'Animation
Toronto 2003 - Worldwide Short Film Festival
Hamburg 2003 - 19. Internationales Kurzfilm-Festival & No Budget
Tarragona 2003 - inCURT
Huesca 2003 - Festival de Cine
Grimstad 2003 - The Norwegian Short Film Festival
St. Petersburg 2003 - Message to Man Festival
Teplice 03 - International Art Film Festival Trencianske
Vila do Conde 2003 - 11. Festival Int. de Curtas-Metragens
Karlovy Vary 2003 - International Film Festival
San Francisco - MoMa 2003
Meran - Kultursommer 2003
Filmcasino Wien - Sommerkino 2003
20th Jerusalem International Film Festival 2003
Melbourne 2003 - 52. Int. Film Festival
Letní filmová skola - Uherské Hradisté 2003
Hybrid - Festival für junge Kunst Salzburg 2003
Motovon Film Festival 2003
Salzburg "Das Kino" - Salzburger Kurzfilmtage 2003
Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MN / Boulder, CO, USA 2003
Luzern Open Air Kino 2003
Odense Film Festival 2003
SICAF 03 - 7th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival
Edinburgh Internatinal Film Festival 2003
Sarajevo Internatinal Film Festival 2003
Rotterdam - Pleinbioscoop 2003
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage 2003
International Short Film Festival (SNIFF) in Slovenia 2003
10th Annual Chicago Underground Festival 2003
l'Etrange Festival Paris 2003
Telluride (Collorado) Film Festival 2003
Off Courts 2003 - Trouville-sur-mer
Fantoche - International Festival für Animationsfilm Zürich 2003
Europäisches Filmfest Stuttgart Ludwigsburg 2003
Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival/Florida 2003
Sanary sur Mer - La Ciotat 2003
Athen 2003 - International Film Festival 2003
Milano Film Festival 2003
Drama 2003 - International Short Film Festival, Greece
Cinematexas International Short Film Festival 2003
Short Cuts Cologne - International Short Film Festival 2003
Resfest San Francisco (Palace of Fine Arts) 2003
Experimenta Design Lissabon 2003
Split Film Festival, Croatia 2003
Resfest Los Angeles (The Egyptian Theater) 2003
Calgary Int'l Film Festival 2003
Thessaloniki 2003 - Panorama of Independent Film & Video Makers 2003
KROK International Animated Film Festival 2003
Basel kult.kino.atelier 2003
Semarang - International Film Festival 2003
Pusan International Film Festival 2003
Mill Valley Film Festival/USA 2003
Warsaw International Film Festival 2003
Chicago International Film Festival 2003
Resfest Washington DC (Auditorium at National Geographic) 2003
Red Bank International Film Festival 2003
Festival of European Films 2003, Ankara
Cinessonne - Festival du Cinéma Européen, Essonne 2003
Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 2003
Strasbourg - Mad Ciné Club 2003
Resfest Barcelona (Art Futura, CCCB) 2003
Montreal Festival International Nouveau Cinéma 2003
Denver International Film Festival 2003
Resfest New York (Tribeca Reforming Arts Center) 2003
Festival du Film de Saint Paul 3 Châteaux 2003
Cork Film Festival 2003
Int. Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm 2003
Flanders Hull International Short Film Festival 2003
Stockholm International Film Festival 2003
Resfest Bristol (Watershed Cinema) 2003
Sao Paulo Film Festival 2003
Hongkong Max! 2003
European Film Festival/Turkey 2003
Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2003
Festival of Festivals 2003, Aarhus
London Film Festival 2003
Resfest Toronto (Royal Cinema) 2003
Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig 2003
Weimar - Backup Festival 2003
Geneva - Cinema Tout Ecran 2003
Interfilm - International short film festival Berlin 2003
Rehoboth Beach Film Society/USA 2003
Resfest Chicago (Museum of Contemporary Art) 2003
Genf - 10. Biennale of Moving Images 2003
Olympia Film Festival 2003
Puchon International Student Animation Festival, Korea 2003
Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest 2003
Cinanima 2003 - Portugal 2003
Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest Kassel 2003
Brief Encounters 9th Bristol Short Film Festival 2003
BAF National Museum of Photography, Film and Television 2003
ResFest Cape Town (Int. Convention Centre) 2003
Resfest London (National Film Thaetre) 2003
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2003
Festival du film court de Victoriaville, Montreal 2003
Wissembourg 03
ResFest Seoul (Contential Hall) 2003
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid 2003
L’Alternativa 2003 Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona 2003
The Golden Elephant Children´s Film Festival 2003, Hyderabad
Wiesbaden - exground on screen 2003
Tuscon Back Alley Film Festival 2003
Göteborg - Fimbar Atlante 2003
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2003
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland 2003
Oslo International Film Festival 2003
ResFest Tokyo (Laforet Museum) 2003
ResFest Johannesburg (Cinema Nouveau) 2003
ResFest Durban (Cinema Nouveau) 2003
FIKE - Évora International Short Film Festival 2003
Tallinn 03 - Black Nights Film Festival 2003
Filmfestival Münster 2003
Mainz - Filmz 2003
Mostra curta cinema Rio de Janeiro 2003
Sitges 03
Bratislava 2003 - International Film Festival
Kairo ÖKF 2003
Aix-en-Provence Festival Tout Court 2003
ResFest Sao Paulo (SESC Villa Mariana) 2003
Paris 03 - Tout Court Festival 2003
Santa Fe Film Festival 2003
Silhouette court Métrage - Paris 2003
ResFest Melbourne (ACMI Cinema) 2003
ResFest Osaka (Namba Hatch) 2003
2003 Plan 9 - La Cheaux-de-Fonds, Suisse 2003
Cinémathèque québécoise - "Best animated films of the year" 2003
BMAA - österr. Filmwoche Bilgi Universität 2003
Animadrid - Spain 2003
Nevers 2003 - Sceni qua non 2003
Golden Horse International Film Fest Taipeh, Taiwan 2003
Semarang International Film Festival, Indonesia 2003
ResFest Fukuoka (IMS Hall) 2003
Gartenbau Kino Wien - Grüne Kino-Weihnacht 2004
Black Maria Film Fest 2004
Flickerfest International Australian Short Film Festival 2004
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 2004
Alpe Adria Cinema Trieste 2004
Sundance Film Festival 2004
Filmwochenende Würzburg 2004
Hampton - Angels on Taggs, Ark Angel 2004
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken 2004
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2004
Victoria International Film and Video Festival 2004
Mumbai Int. Film Festival 2004
San Francisco 04 Independent Film Festival 2004
Sarajevo Winter 2004
Picutre Houses 2004
Texas Film Festival 2004
Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2004
Anima 2004, Brussels 2004
Animac - Lleida Mostra Int. Des Cinema d'Animacio 2004
Diagonale 2004
Tampere Film Festival, Finland 2004
Cinequest Film Festival 2004
Washington DC Independent Film Festival/USA 2004
Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia 2004
Némo Festival Paris 2004
New York Underground Film Festival 2004
Minimalen Kortfilmfestival Trondheim 2004
University of the Arts 2004
AnnArbor Film Festival 2004
Lille - Festival du court metrage 2004
Filmmuseum Antwerpen 2004
Cucalorus Annual Festival of Independent Film 2004
London - Medium rare 2004
MFA Planet Europe, Palma de Mallorca 2004
Aspen Shortfest 2004
Bimini, Latvia 2004
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart 2004
Istanbul Int. Kurzfilmtage 2004
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2004
Istanbul Int. Film Festival 2004
Granada - Jovenes Realisatores Film Festival 2004
Filmfest Dresden 2004
Matt McCormick - PDX Microfest 2004
Images Festival of Independent Film 2004
Singapore International Film Festival 2004
Golden Gate Awards 2004
Verona Film Festival 2004
London - Slinky Pictures 2004
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück 2004
Lisboa 04 - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Algarve 2004
Nashville Independent Film Festival 2004
Carbunari 2004, Romania
Independent Film Festival of Boston 2004
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Jubiläumsprogramm 2004
Anifest 2004 Treborn, Czech Republic 2004
Taïwan International Animation Festival 2004
San Sebastian - Donostia Kultura 2004
Maui Film Festival 2004
Seattle International Film Festival 2004
Zürich Videoex 2004
Filmtage Tübingen 2004
Perpignan - Cinémaginaire 2004
Krakau Filmfestival 2004
Almeria en Corto 2004
OneDotZero London 2004
Bukarest Transilvania Festival 2004
Madrid - La Casa Encendida / Contemp. Art Center 2004
Hamburg IKFF Jubiläumsprogramm 2004
Paris - Semaine du Cinéma Autrichien 2004
Atlanta Film Festival 2004
Animafest Zagreb, Croatia 2004
Sancy - Pleine la bobine 2004
New York Experimental Digital Video Festival 2004
IFP Los Angeles Film Festival 2004
Tabor Film Festival, Croatia 2004
Melbourne International Animation Festival 2004
Duisburg - Traumzeit Festival 2004
Cambridge 2004 Film Festival 2004
Montone Umbria Filmfestival 2004
Auckland International Film Festival 2004
Wellington Film Festival 2004
Subotica - Open University / Int. Film Festival 2004
Palic Film Festival 2004
Rimini - Int. Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics 2004
Spudfest 2004
SICAF 04 - 8th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival 2004
Tel Aviv 2004 - Animation Festival
Bukarest - Anonimul Int. Film Festival 2004
Hiroshima 2004 - International Animation Festival
London Int. Animation Festival 2004
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2004
Vladivostok 04 - Pacific Meridian Int. Film Festival
Andy Warhol Museum 2004
Mostar Short Film Festival 2004
Halifax Atlantic Film Festival 2004
Nevers 2004 - Sceni Qua Non
Cartoon Forum Galicia 2004
Ottawa Film Festival 2004
Morbegno Film Festival 2004
Idaho International Film Festival 2004
Haifa 04 - International Film Festival 2004
Virginia Film Festival 2004
Imago 2004
Festival International du court métrage de Luxembourg 2004
Bowling Green State University 2004
Asolo Art Film Festival 2004
Festival de Cine de Ourense 2004
Charlottesville 04 - Virginia Film Festival
Utrecht - Impakt 04
Manchester 04 - Int. Short Film & Video Festival
Seoul - Asiana Int. Short Film Festival 2004
Montreal Victoriaville Short Film Festival 2004
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Union Theater 2004
Holland Animation Film Festival Utrecht 2004
Festival de Cine de Ourense 2004
Bristol Short Film Festival 2004
Festival internacional de Filmets de Badalona 2004
Festival international Train et Cinema, Lille 2004
VIII Salone dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali di Venezia 2004
Madrid - Le enana Maron 2004
Tirana International Filmfestival 2004
Seoul Independent Film Festival 2004
Cleveland Cinematheque 2004/2005
Astria Suparak 2005
Göteborg Film Festival 05
Bruxelles 05 - Folioscope/Anima
Taipei San Image Studio 2005
Festival regard sur le court metrage au Saguenay 2005
Manchester 05 - Int. Short Film & Video Festival
Tehran 05 - Int. Animation Festival
Festival Eurocine 2005, Bogota
Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival 2005
Sundance at MoMa 2005
Karlsruhe, ZKM 2005
Cambridge Best of Brief Encounters 2005
Balkanima 2005
Szolnok 2005 - Int. Scientific Film Festival
Badalona - Internacional de Filmets 2005
Madrid 05 - AniMadrid 2005
Aix-en-Provence Festival Tous Courts 2005
Seoul - SICAF 06
Sao Paulo Short Film Festival 2006
Curtocircuito, Santiago di Compostela 2006
Amsterdam 06 - Film Experience 2006
Norwich06 - International Animation Festival 2006
Asolo Art Film Festival 2006
Black Maria Film Festival New York 2006
Seoul Animpact Film Festival 2007
Aix - Rencontres Cinmatographiques 2007
Moskow Linoleum Festival for Alternative Animation 2007
Hull 07 International Short Film Festival 2007
Aarhus Festival of Festivals 2007
Columbus - Wexner Center for the Arts / Ohio State University 2007
Bruxelles 2008 - Anima Festival of Animated Films 2008
Amsterdam - Cinema de Balie 2008
Lille 08 - La fete de l'animation 2008
Lucca 08 - Lucca Animation
Pieve di Cadore 08 - Cadore Doc Film Festival 2008
Stocka 08 - Stocka Film Festival 2008
Basel 08 - Clair-obscur Filmfestival 2008
Los Angeles - The Cinefamily @ The Silent Movie Theatre 2009
Stuttgart 09 - 16. Int. Trickfilm-Festival 2009
Aix - Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence 2009
Bruxelles - Cinema Nova 2009
Thalwil - Filmpodium 2009
Melbourne - Australian Centre for The Moving Image 2009
Tokyo - Yebisu International Festival 2009
Columbus - Wexner Center for the Arts / The Ohio State University International Festival 2010
Rio de Janeiro 10 - Mostra Curta Cinema 2010
Utrecht 10 - Holland Animation Film Festival 2010
Ljubljana Animateka 10 - Int. Animation Film Festival 2010
Communauté d'agglomération of Pau-Pyrénée 2011
Bucharest - Asociatia Oricum 2011
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2011
Stuttgart 11 - Int. Trickfilm-Festival 2011
Copenhagen - Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center 2011
Chateau-Renault - APCVL 2011
Banska Stiavnica - 4 živly 2011
Maribor - Pekarna 2011
Salt Lake City - Leonardo Center 2012
Uppsala 11 - 30. International Short Film Festival 2011
Mediathéque de St Hilaire – France 2012
Festival de Roanne, France 2012
Festival Monstra – Lisbon, Portugal 2012
Utrecht 12 - Holland Animation Film Festival 2012
Festival de Baillargues, France 2012
Liverpool - FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) 2012
Stéréolux, Nantes 2012
Vila do Conde 12 - 20. Festival Int. de Curtas-Metragens 2012
FANTOCHE 2012 - International Animation Film Festival Baden 2012
Wels 2012 Youki - International Youth Media Festival 2012
Barcelona - Centre de Cultura Contemporania 2013
Oberhausen 2013 - 59. Int. Kurzfilmtage - Tiere der Zerstörung und das Schwarze Bunt
Camber Sands - ATP 2013 - TV on the Radio
Salzburg - Das Kino - My Sound of Music - Festival 2013
Lodz 2013 - Fundacja Filmowa Se-ma-for - Best animations programme 2013
Wien - Arena - EXPERIMENTE [film:musik] 2013
Dschungel Wien - Experimente [film:musik] 2013
Genève - Cinéma Spoutnik - MONSTRE FESTIVAL 2013