Fast Film, Virgil Widrich, 2003.

A propósito do Festival de Curtas de Vila do Conde, fui recuperar um post do meu blog anterior sobre uma curta que me fascinou. Vai passar segunda-feira, dia 10, no festival e também no programa Onda Curta da :2. Vejam lá ou em casa, mas vejam.

Ontem vi, no programa Onda Curta da 2:, uma curta-metragem de Virgil Widrich chamada Fast Film. O mínimo que eu posso dizer é que é uma obra-prima [ eu sou assim de paixões fortes e o mínimo é logo o máximo :)].

"About Fast Film

Austria/Luxembourg 2003, 14 min.
35 mm, color, 1:1,66, Dolby Digital

"Fast Film" is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.

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. "