tristes deserts august feat. austrian apparel a film by stephanie winter

TRISTES DÉSERTS – A Robot´s Tale Stephanie Winter / AT 2015 / DCP / Color / 8 min

TRISTES DÉSERTS – A Robot´s Tale is the filmic-musical result from the baroque- and sci-fi-inspired collaboration between artist Stephanie Winter, tenor August Schram and electronic duo Austrian Apparel. Originating in the idea of an audiovisual realization of M.A. Charpentier's lyrical song "Tristes Déserts" and motivated by the constant interaction of image and sound, a baroque-intergalactic musical short film was developed, in which the boundaries between human and machine, between baroque music and electronic sounds become blurred. In a time dominated by artificial intelligence, the extravagant musical short film tells the story of a lonely baroque robot in a battle between good and evil, recalling the magic of the early cinema.

Moshel Film, Salon Hybrid & August Schram production 2015
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Moshel Film, Castellezgasse 17/3, 1020 Vienna - Austria
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TRISTES DÉSERTS – A Robot´s Tale ist das filmisch-musikalische Ergebnis der von Barock wie Science-Fiction inspirierten Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Künstlerin Stephanie Winter, dem Tenor August Schram und dem Elektronikduo Austrian Apparel. Ausgehend von der Vision einer audiovisuellen Umsetzung von M.A. Charpentiers lyrischem Lied „Tristes Déserts“, entstand aus der stetigen Wechselwirkung von Bild und Sound ein barock-intergalaktischer Musikfilm, in dem die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Maschine, zwischen Barockmusik und elektronischen Klängen verschwimmen. In einer von künstlicher Intelligenz geprägten Zeit erzählt der extravagante musikalische Kurzfilm die Geschichte eines einsamen Barock-Roboters im Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse – erinnernd an die Magie des frühen Kinos.



Credits

Director & Concept Stephanie Winter

Cleaner & ROBOT August Schram Colleague Rainhold Kammerer poodleS Higgins, Hope, Proscha

MUSIC Marc-Antoine Charpentier
AUSTRIAN APPAREL

singing August Schram

PRODUCTION Moshel Film
Salon hybrid

PRODUCERS DANIEL MOSHEL
STEPHANIE WINTER
AUGUST Schram

Line Producer Eugen Klim

Director of Photgraphy Martin Bauer

Editing Christin Gottscheber

Sound Mastering patrick pulsinger

Color Grading Andi Winter

VFX SHLOMO SCHMILNITZ SHMOTZ

1st AC Aleksander Bilic, Stefan Maitz

2nd AC Alexander Koch, Andreas Watzek

Gaffer Franz Hollaus

Dolly Grip Ferdl Stoiber

Electrician Walter Kanzelmar, Fateh Tuncer, Dorian Frey, Christian Mirea, Thomas Schweiger

Oktopussies Jenny Schleif, Andrea De Santiago, Camilla Haegebarth, Diego Rojas Ortiz

Art Department Supervisor Christoph Fischer

Art Department Almasa Jerlagic, Archil Svimonishvili, Charlie Bourne, David Cary, Eszter Gulyias, Ivan Perard, Johannes Weckl, Julian Mähr, Julien Weizenhofer, Klemens Waldhuber, Lasha Iashvili, Maria Pavlova, Merlin Meister, Nanna Neudeck, Phillip Mittag-Lenkheym, Viktoria Knust

Costume Supervisor Aleksandra Kica

Costume Assistant Michael Stibor

Additional Costume Assistant Franziska Schwemmer, Johanna Diwold, Lisa Sattlegger, Madeleine Nose

Make Up Sonja Lorenz, Iwona Furmaniewicz
Sarah Kleindinst

2nd AD Flora Schausberger

Location Manager Valentina König

Animal Handler Irene Morauf-Eberle
Verena Füsselberger

Production Assistant Anastasia Andrejewa, Chiara Lisy, Danny Rachnaev, Josef Zorn

Volunteer Arnold Kraml

Making of camera Diana Levin



MANY THANKS TO Andreas Moravec, Gerhard Grutscher, Hildegard Wurst, Julia Winter, Michael Frühling, Moshe Kvittelashvili, Philip Kaindl, Sebastian Endler, DOPPLINGER LICHTVERLEIH, M. STÖGER KAMERAVERLEIH

VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO Gerhard Kraml
Eduard Schmaelz
Johannes Riedmüller
Smajo Pasalic
MoGI

WITH KIND SUPPORT FROM WIHAST / CAMPUS BRIGITTENAU
KIESWERKE SCHÖNFELD
SCHMAELZ BELEUCHTUNGEN

©2015 MOSHEL FILM / SALON HYBRID / AUGUST SCHRAM

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Screenings

FESTIVAL & PUBLIC SCREENINGS

Art Festival "Kinono" / 16.8.2016, Tinos, Greece - Screening

16th Korea Queer Film Festival / June 2016, Seoul, South Korea - Screening

44th Festival of Nations / 13.5. - 19.5.2016, Lenzing, Austria - Screening

4th Changing Perspectives International Short Film Festival Istanbul / 5.5. - 8.5.2016, Istanbul, Berlin, Yogyakarta - Screening

9th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival / 4.5. - 8.5.2016, Philadelphia, USA - Screening

Film Score and Scruffy City Film + Music Festival / 27.4. - 1.5.2016, Knoxville, TN, USA - Screening

10th NexT International Film Festival / 7.4. - 11.4.2016, Bucharest, Romania - Competition

Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival / 19.3.2016, Seattle, USA - Competition

17TH BUNTER HUND – Internationales Kurzfilmfest München / 10.3. - 13.3.2016, Germany - Competition

Shorts on Tap Women in Revolt Berlin-Bound / 8.3.2016, Berlin - Screening

17TH BAYREUTHER FILMFEST - kontrast / 26. - 28.2.2016, GERMANY - Competition

5TH Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival / 18. -27.2.2016, NEW YORK, USA - Competition

26th BAMBERGER KURZFILMTAGE / 25.- 31.1.2016, Germany - Competition

SHORTS ON TAP - WOMEN IN REVOLT / 7.1.2016, LONDON, UK - SCREENING

14th FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS MAINZ / 24.-29.11.2015, Germany - Short Film Competition

16th IZMIR SHORT FILM FESTIVAL / 17.11.2015, TURKEY - SCREENING

13th FLORENCE QUEER FESTIVAL / 11.-17.11.2015, Italy - Competition

21st CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL / 11.-15.11.2015, Wilmington, NC, USA - Competition

6th ZINEMA ZOMBIE FEST 2015 – INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL / 6.11.2015, COLOMBIA - Competition

24th MADRID FILM FESTIVAL - PNR (FCM-PNR) / 16.10.2015, SPAIN - INT. SHORT FILM SELECTION

FILMZEIT KAUFBEUREN / 5.-11.10.2015, Germany - Competition

5th ROMA CREATIVE CONTEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL / 13.9.-4.10.2015, Italy - Competition

5TH ICKLE FILM FEST / 24.9.2015, UK - Competition

FILMFESTIVAL MÜNSTER / 23.-27.9.2015, Germany - Competition

11th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE PASTO / 3.9.2015, Colombia - Competition

5th FARCUME – FARO’S SHORT-FILM FESTIVAL / 26.8.2015, Portugal - Competition

22nd OULU MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL / 26. – 30.8.2015, Finland - Competition

9th FIRST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL XINING / 21. – 30.7.2015, China - Competition

22nd OPEN EYES FILMFEST 2015 / 16. - 19.7.2015, Marburg, Germany - Competition

15th SOPOT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / 11. – 19.7.2015, Poland - Competition

SARDINIA FILM FESTIVAL / 21. – 27.6.2015, Italy - Competition

11TH FEST NEW DIRECTORS| NEW FILMS FESTIVAL / 22.-29.06.2015, Portugal - Competition

BERLIN MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS / 27.-30.05.2015 - Competition

VIS VIENNA INDEPENDENT SHORTS / 26. - 31.5.2015 - Competition

CINEMA NEXT / FILMNACHT SALZBURG / Das Kino, 12.05.2015 - Screening

World Premiere Hongkong Intl. Film Festival / 23.3 - 6.4.2015

Austrian Premiere Diagonale Graz 2015 / 17.3. - 22.3.2015

 

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