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Dead Reckoning
director: PAUL WENNINGER AND SUSAN YOUG
2 MIN 47 I AUSTRIA
DEAD RECKONING is a ride around Vienna’s Ringstrasse boulevard and from there to go into the city, to fall, to eat, and finally to end up on the toilet. Death is always there, always in front of us. The film follows the cycle of life, the rhythm of the city. The British-Austrian duo of Susan Young and Paul Wenninger works with animation and stop-motion technology. The filming locations show how Vienna has been influenced by cultures from around the world. An animated skeleton symbolizes the morbid humor of the Viennese and even appears as a grumpy waiter…
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About
Production: Kabinett ad Co. (AT)
French distributors: Films de Force Majeure
Released : 2017
Gallery
Support
Wien Kultur, Amann Studios, Listo
Film produced within the scope of “The rhythm of Vienna” competition organized by the Vienna Tourist Board
In collaboration with
VIS Vienna Independent Short and Vienna Shorts Agency
Supported by
SAE Institute Vienna and the Vienna Film Comission
Team
Writers and directors Paul Wenninger & Susan Young
Performance Raul Maia
Camera assistant Jonathan Tobrman
Costume House of the very island’s – Karin Krapfenbauer & Markus Hausleitner
Music Elektro Guzzi
Color grading Thomas Varga
Sound editing Amann Studios Wien
Production supervisor Peter Koger
Postproduction supervisor Herbert Fisher
Technical sheet
Animation
Length 2 minutes 47 seconds
Colour
Visa number 146.694
FESTIVALS
ANNY Best of Fest (USA)
Cartoons Underground – Competition (Singapore)
Northwest Animation Festival (USA)
Animocje International Animated Film Festival (Poland)
Glas Animation Festil (USA)
Monstra Festival (Portugal)
Aubagne Int. Film Festival (France)
Tricky Women Festival (Austria)
Vidéoformes – Young Public Section (France)
Animac (Spain)
Festival des 24 Courts (France)
Bamberg Short Film Festival – Competition “Animations and Experimental Films” (Germany)
International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis – Special mention (Lituanie)
London International Animation Festival (England)
Animage (Brazil)
Festival Tous Courts (France)
Festival RISC (France)
International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima (Poland)
Cinanima (Portugal)
CutOut Fest – International Animation & Digital Art Festival (Mexico)
Alter-Native Film Festival (Romania)
Festival du film d’animation pour la jeunesse de Bourg-en-Bresse (France)
Festival du Film Court en Armagnac (France)
10th Imagine Science Film Festival (United-States)
Sedicicorto International, Experia section (Italy)
International Short Film Festival (Cyprus)
Animatou (Switzerland)
StopTrik (Slovenia)
Festival Stop Motion Montréal (Canada)
World Festival of Animated Film Varna (Bulgaria)
Festival International du Film (France)
Insomnia International Animation Film Festival (Russia)
Images contre nature Film Festival (France)
Annecy Animation Film Festival (France)