Animated feature
Austria/Luxembourg/France 2003
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Widrich Film
DIRECTED BY
Virgil Widrich
SCREENPLAY
Virgil Widrich
PRODUCERS
Virgil Widrich, Philippe Bober, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Bady Minck, Nicolas Schmerkin
A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters. This classic plot conceals an hommage to action movies. In 14 minutes, Fast Film (a play on words, English fast and German fast, meaning "almost") provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera in a two-year production process.
Animation Supervision: Walter Rafelsberger, Markus Loder-Taucher
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
Additional Animation: Eveline Consolati, Thomas Grundnigg, Andreas Künz, Stefan Braulik
Sounddesign: Frédéric Fichefet
Origami & Objektdesign: Mine Scheid, Jakob Scheid, Carmen Völker