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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

This film was made at the Vienna Filmacademy in Winter 2008/09. The challenge was to design and build a scenery in which each of the 18 students of my class can shoot a short film. We decided to build a small theatre. Everyone of us had one day for rehearsing inside the scenery and one day for directing his/her own film.

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Nick Torres 2 years ago

That was so surreal. The Cinematography was superb!
Russell Gallagher 2 years ago

Wtf
Chris Duke 2 years ago

I second that WTF
Fritz 2 years ago

I fourth WTF, still amazing though
Touchcream 2 years ago

I fifth WTF, but really amazing !
Paul Wong 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Superb.
Ofer Smilansky 2 years ago

this was.
it really was.
warp space 2 years ago

exquisite
Mark Kammel 2 years ago

one word: goosebumps
Lawrence Martin 2 years ago

Beautifully quiet. Excellent cinematography and storyboarding. Congratulations!
Derek Van Gorder 2 years ago

Wonderful.
Cody Nicewarner 2 years ago

my favorite short film on vimeo.
Bewegtbildarbeiter 2 years ago

Wenn das der Filmnachswuchs der Filmakademie ist, steht ihm eine großartige Zukunft bevor! Ganz super.
Ricky Norris 2 years ago

the visuals were increidble.
Sean Lynch 2 years ago

astounding.... at first i thought it would be a bit campy, but it played off well
Josh Morton 2 years ago

that was amazing
William Trowbridge 2 years ago

Extremely beautiful and powerful. Well done
Brennan L. 2 years ago

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

The video editing and composition was great... the story left me confused.
Kyle Bart Reid 2 years ago

Great way to create a gap between expectation and result.
WeLoveMotion Inc. 2 years ago

Fantastic! What camera did you use? :D
Daniel Yanez 2 years ago

Great video
Mike Pierce 2 years ago

Wow... not what I expected... Good work though.
sahrealsteph 2 years ago

Again-wow
Bjork Borgeson 2 years ago

Tragically surreal. Superb!
Cheng Ka Chun 2 years ago

very good Cinematography~
Scott Gold 2 years ago

My brain just exploded inside my head. That was the most beautiful WTF I have ever seen. Breath taking.
Captain Altzheimer 2 years ago

The ending!
Glenn S 2 years ago

great job to everyone.
the cinematographer lit that place really well it was
amazing.
Dimitri Visser (aka misvid) 2 years ago

wow - great concept
Lasse Pyre 2 years ago

I just dont find the words how good this is!
Daniele Cereda 2 years ago

Simly GREAT. Good Job!
HappyDayz 2 years 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 2 years ago

cryin' game
helene k 2 years ago

right u r!
Glen Simister 2 years 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 2 years ago

This is better than best.
pausefilm 2 years ago

Excellent
Tom Schleiffarth 2 years 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.
Lightbulb Media 2 years ago

yeah...I thought the same thing...
Jah Love 2 years ago

Dunno.

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

Least my part.
nostradadus 2 years ago

Outstanding work! Everything was spot on in this film. So much information was packed into 6:17....truly amazing work.
William Castleman 2 years ago

Disturbing and beautiful. Lighting, music and Christian Erdt's performance were superb.
Jay Chou 2 years ago

看不到。。。
Daria Sverdlina 2 years ago

the acting left me speechless
Sean Hogan 2 years 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.
Jeff Brewer 2 years ago

Very odd, yet some awesome cinematography in there. Love the sound design/subtle ambient stuff too.
Felipe Pereira 2 years ago

Kubrick !
TORO SEGURA 2 years 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!
MAREK KREMER 2 years ago

boring
pablo roldan 5 months ago

asshole.
→Zac Boyet← 2 years ago

Interesting and very strange.
Kyle Dixon 2 years ago

Speechless...
Nikio 2 years ago

2nd that!
Eddie 2 years ago

The eye movement @ 1:32 was excellent. Great capture.
Jah Love 2 years ago

Good interpretation.

Who doesn't want to...really?

Thanks.
vizage 2 years ago

!
Raglan Siu 2 years ago

Stunning Result !
Derek Day 2 years ago

Gripping, but talk me through ...
mikewashere 2 years ago

suicide
James Williams 2 years ago

Stunning, Its left me guessing; like everybody else here. Surreal and Dark. I love it
Chip 2 years 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 2 years ago

Haunting and Uniquely beautiful! Incredible work, can't wait to see what's next.
Ponchoso 2 years ago

Bravo! Excelent short.
Wonjung Bae 2 years ago

... awe!
Simon Packman 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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)
RAUS 2 years ago

The Cinematography and lighting with this piece was amazing. Interesting story, it can have many interpretations - good stuff
Marta Chade 2 years ago

Beautiful and powerful image. Amazing work!
LCM 2 years ago

Very Marlon Brando.

Cool.
Karel Bata 2 years ago

You're clearly on the way to big things. And deservedly so.
Rytis Gasparavicius 2 years ago

Wtf?
Jonas 2 years 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 2 years ago

Very good! Thanks!
Omar Jikari 2 years ago

Wtf, that's disgusting...
alex maier 2 years 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 2 years ago

Excellent!
eliseo solís mora 2 years 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 P. Fitzpatrick 2 years ago

WOW... The lighting was amazing.. What was this shot on?
bermondsey boy 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

intrigue, suspense, and powerful....the crying game, a great rendition.
Shaman Entertainment 2 years ago

Creepy, haunting, yet sinfully joyful to watch.
Бојан 2 years 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 2 years ago

inspiring and beautiful...
Paul Coleman 2 years ago

Gorgeous
Alexander Soloviev 2 years ago

Oh!
marcap6 2 years ago

Speechless
John Lewis 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Is it only me or someone else actually thinks he shot himself?
Nino Leitner 2 years 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 2 years ago

look the light at 2:17... almost like film!!!
perfect job
rememberthecolors 1 year ago

it is made on 16mm actually!
Anima3D 1 year ago

wow that was fast!!!
Shamik Sen Gupta 6 months ago

amazing