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Director: Dominik Hartl vimeo.com/dominikhartl
Cinematography: Laszlo Vancsa | Art Directors, Costume Design: Jakob Brossmann, Hanna Oellinger | Sounddesign, Music: Matthias Hafner - rememberthecolors.com - | Cast: Christian Erdt, Patrick Bongola, Stephan Bartunek, Gerald Kainz, Mathias Gruber | School: Film Academy Vienna / University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna | Year: 2009

Fünf junge Soldaten dringen in ein verfallenes Kellertheater ein. In der Garderobe des Theaters entdeckt einer der Soldaten die Kostüme der Opernaufführung „Madame Butterfly.“ In der Ausweglosigkeit seiner Situation verkleidet er sich als Madame Butterfly und beginnt für seine Kameraden zu tanzen. Am Ende seiner Aufführung durchschneidet ein Schuss die Luft. Der verkleidete Soldat sinkt leblos zu Boden - in seiner Hand hält er die rauchende Pistole...

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Nick Torres 7 months ago

That was so surreal. The Cinematography was superb!
Russell Gallagher 7 months ago

Wtf
Chris Duke 7 months ago

I second that WTF
Kyle Foose 7 months ago

I third that WTF, but amazing video.
Fritz Fleischer 7 months ago

I fourth WTF, still amazing though
Touchcream 7 months ago

I fifth WTF, but really amazing !
Paul Wong 6 months ago

WTF to the tenth power! HaHa, I think he would have got shot just for knowing how to open the fan like a pro.
Jason Brooks 7 months ago

Really incredible work. So simple, so powerful. Seriously inspiring stuff...

Thanks for sharing - was it shot on super16?

Let me know if you ever need an editor short notice.

jason
Samu Ainesmaa 7 months ago

Superb.
Ofer Smilansky 7 months ago

this was.
it really was.
warp space 7 months ago

exquisite
Mark Kammel 7 months ago

one word: goosebumps
Lawrence Martin 7 months ago

Beautifully quiet. Excellent cinematography and storyboarding. Congratulations!
Derek Van Gorder 7 months ago

Wonderful.
Cody Nicewarner 7 months ago

my favorite short film on vimeo.
Bewegtbildarbeiter 7 months ago

Wenn das der Filmnachswuchs der Filmakademie ist, steht ihm eine großartige Zukunft bevor! Ganz super.
Ricky Norris 7 months ago

the visuals were increidble.
Sean Lynch 7 months ago

astounding.... at first i thought it would be a bit campy, but it played off well
Josh Morton 7 months ago

that was amazing
William Trowbridge 7 months ago

Extremely beautiful and powerful. Well done
Brennan L. 7 months ago

I'm not sure I quite understand it all...

The video editing and composition was great... the story left me confused.
Kyle Reid 7 months ago

Great way to create a gap between expectation and result.
EJ Angeles 7 months ago

Fantastic! What camera did you use? :D
Daniel Yanez 7 months ago

Great video
Evan Peters 7 months ago

That was profound, provocative and powerful.

I think the other two films by rememberthecolors are excellent as well.

Cheers to you all.
Mike Pierce 7 months ago

Wow... not what I expected... Good work though.
sahrealsteph 7 months ago

Again-wow
Bjork Borgeson 7 months ago

Tragically surreal. Superb!
Cheng Ka Chun 7 months ago

very good Cinematography~
Scott Gold 7 months ago

My brain just exploded inside my head. That was the most beautiful WTF I have ever seen. Breath taking.
Captain Altzheimer 7 months ago

The ending!
Glenn S 7 months ago

great job to everyone.
the cinematographer lit that place really well it was
amazing.
Dimitri Visser (aka misvid) 7 months ago

wow - great concept
Lasse Savolainen 7 months ago

I just dont find the words how good this is!
Daniele Cereda 7 months ago

Simly GREAT. Good Job!
ice-tray.net 7 months ago

I really liked it. The title was very clever. I loved how you let the viewer create their own story. Black and white with no words.... Stunning!
C. Jeff 7 months ago

cryin' game
helene k 7 months ago

right u r!
Glen Simister 7 months ago

You guys really pulled off something special here. Great Photography and lighting. The plot went in a direction I thought I would never see, it really took me off guard. Great stuff. You have some special things ahead for you, I'm sure.
Adam Brown 7 months ago

This is better than best.
pausefilm 7 months ago

Excellent
Tom Schleiffarth 7 months ago

I have to be honest here, i didn't really get the point. It was more gross than anything. Outside of some dude turning out to be a perv-job, nothing really happened. I hate to be a hater on someones film because the cinematography and editing was actually very good, but the story line was not very fitting at all.
Lighbulb Media 7 months ago

yeah...I thought the same thing...
Jah Love 7 months ago

Dunno.

I felt like it connected with a certain part of Disturbia.

Least my part.
nostradadus 7 months ago

Outstanding work! Everything was spot on in this film. So much information was packed into 6:17....truly amazing work.
William Castleman 7 months ago

Disturbing and beautiful. Lighting, music and Christian Erdt's performance were superb.
Jay Chou 7 months ago

看不到。。。
Daria Sverdlina 7 months ago

the acting left me speechless
Sean Hogan 7 months ago

Wow. I had to watch that twice just to make sure I saw everything. Extremely nice. Making a story by showing and not telling. Amazing lighting. Like nothing I've ever seen before.
J.S. Brewer 7 months ago

Very odd, yet some awesome cinematography in there. Love the sound design/subtle ambient stuff too.
Felipe Pereira 7 months ago

Kubrick !
TORO SEGURA 7 months ago

I like it so much congrats , i live in a country that not have an army and i dont have idea what is that stupid thing that many people call war , so you give another vision of this tireless topic, thanks!
KREMER MEDIA 7 months ago

boring
→Zac Boyet← 7 months ago

Interesting and very strange.
Kyle Dixon 7 months ago

Speechless...
Nikio 7 months ago

2nd that!
Eddie 7 months ago

The eye movement @ 1:32 was excellent. Great capture.
Jah Love 7 months ago

Good interpretation.

Who doesn't want to...really?

Thanks.
vizage 7 months ago

!
Raglan Siu Wing Tat 7 months ago

Stunning Result !
Derek Day 7 months ago

Gripping, but talk me through ...
mikewashere 7 months ago

suicide
Philip Leech 7 months ago

Ahh, I thought suicide too. Though it was the kind of end to a film that I like where I feel it is open to interpretation and leaves everyone feeling a different way.
You should be very proud of your work.
James Williams 7 months ago

Stunning, Its left me guessing; like everybody else here. Surreal and Dark. I love it
Chip 7 months ago

Here's how it plays for me. It might help the wtfs in the beginning.

Gay soldier with knowledge of the opera, "Madam Butterfly," has a stress induced break from reality triggered by war and a dressing room. He performs a tender passage of love in the opera but is jolted back to reality by his death at the hands of another stressed out soldier who feels he's being assulted by a madman.

Great short piece
Kenneth Burgin 6 months ago

Haunting and Uniquely beautiful! Incredible work, can't wait to see what's next.
Ponchoso 6 months ago

Bravo! Excelent short.
Wonjung Bae 6 months ago

... awe!
Simon Packman 6 months ago

This is awesome. The pace and the emotions of the actors remind me of an Ingmar Bergman film. Its fantastic. Great direction. The Acting was superb as well as the cinematography and editing. Once again Ingmar Bergman.
Simon Packman 6 months ago

The plot was somewhat indirect but it expressed so much emotion you could feel the fear, the confusion, the anger, and the sorrow. You could feel the soldiers empty hearts. Was this 16mm? or Digital? If digital what camera did you use the footage is amazing.
arnold graggaber 6 months ago

16mm on a Arri SR2 - with Kodak double x - 7222
Telecine on DaVinci - to digiBeta

... great joy to read all the comments, thx.
arno (best boy electric)
Andrew Ros 6 months ago

The Cinematography and lighting with this piece was amazing. Interesting story, it can have many interpretations - good stuff
Marta Chade 6 months ago

Beautiful and powerful image. Amazing work!
LCM 6 months ago

Very Marlon Brando.

Cool.
Karel Bata 6 months ago

You're clearly on the way to big things. And deservedly so.
Rytis Gasparavicius 6 months ago

Wtf?
Jonas 6 months ago

Wow, that's really cool! I got kind of a weird feeling watching this, really dragged me in somehow. The only thing I didn't find too good was the weapon sound effects, especially the last one, it sounded more like a knife stab or something.
Aleksander Nadoloshko 6 months ago

Very good! Thanks!
Omar Jikari 6 months ago

Wtf, that's disgusting...
alex maier 6 months ago

it was really good at the beginning but then it just got weird as hell toward the middle
still very well shot and edited
Patrick Poculan 6 months ago

Excellent!
eliseo solís mora 6 months ago

i'ts a great vision of our real life, living, sometimes in just a dreams to die, reaveling who we really wants to be...
John Fitzpatrick 6 months ago

WOW... The lighting was amazing.. What was this shot on?
bermondsey boy 6 months ago

Interesting and well done. I would liked to have seen a bit more suspense. Poss a shot of the dummy, the feathers, fan, a hint of longing or love from the guy who gets shot for the guy who shoots him, edited in at the top of the film. After 1.30 I fast forwarded it. Also, the background audio could have done with exterior distance bombing, shooting etc.. Good effort dudes. This is what I'm watching vimeo for. Imagination, originality. 5/10
Justin Metz 6 months ago

I'm puzzled at the use of modern weaponry, Steyr AUG (rifles) and a glock (handgun) coupled with world war II era helmets/fatigues and general set dressing (or at least that was the predominant feeling for me). I'm sure someone will respond "but the message transcends time and space." Right...

The sound design could have been better as well. Particularly unconvincing weapon discharges and a lack of ambient war sound effects that could have helped pull me into the "microcosmic story unfolding in the most unexpected of times and locations" that I felt the film was otherwise trying to portray...

These things might be incidental or irrelevant to some, but they were major detractors for me.
Thunder Down Country 6 months ago

i myself thought the same thing... however on reflection i've decided that the use of the AUG was perfect for the aesthetics of this piece. instead of it being world war two; it was something alien. it took me away from 'just another world war two piece' and let me fall in love with everything else it had to offer.
Rob Johnson 6 months ago

I loved it! I am not a movie critic but that was simply enthralling, I also am a HUGE fan of B/W photography
cile bailey 6 months ago

intrigue, suspense, and powerful....the crying game, a great rendition.
Shaman Entertainment 6 months ago

Creepy, haunting, yet sinfully joyful to watch.
Бојан 6 months ago

Wonderful movie portraying love as men die and women look on.

Music fits and the black and white perfectly shows how old that idea is.
Aaron Delgado 6 months ago

inspiring and beautiful...
Paul Coleman 6 months ago

Gorgeous
SahersVideoProductions 6 months ago

Oh!
marcap6 6 months ago

Speechless
John Lewis 6 months ago

I'd agree with Justin, the use of the modern weapons with the (apparently) forties setting, seemed to contrive to keep me distant from this. Otherwise it was very well photographed and nicely put together. I won't calim that I really felt I understood what Dominik was trying to convey, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Cine Povero 6 months ago

Sehr schön. In the final shot, however, it's not clear the dead soldier helds a gun in his right hand. So, it becomes a bit hard for non-German speaking people to get the director's point -- especially if they ignore Madam Butterfly's plot
Juan Balpuesta 5 months ago

Is it only me or someone else actually thinks he shot himself?
Nino Leitner 5 months ago

Very nice.

Wobei es vielleicht ganz nett von euch wäre, nicht gleich das Ende des Filmes im Text zu verraten.

Ich verstehe ja auch eigentlich nicht, warum man seinen eigenen Film dem geneigten (deutschsprachigen) Zuseher "spoilen" will ...
Anima3D 5 months ago

look the light at 2:17... almost like film!!!
perfect job