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FAST FILMA film by Virgil Widrich Austria / Luxembourg 2003 l 14 min l 35 mm l colour l Dolby SRD l no
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l festivals l dvd "Fast Film" is a chase through film chases, implemented using print-outs of found-footage frames, which are then folded and animated. A kiss, a happy couple. But then, the woman is kidnapped, and the man sets off to save her. A dramatic rescue story full of wild chase scenes begins.
The audience is taken to the center of the Earth and the enemy’s headquarters.
On its surface, Fast Film tells a simple story.
The catch is that all its scenes were taken from 300 different works produced in the course of film history, and the heroes change identities an equal number of times.
But as in Virgil Widrich’s Copy Shop (2001), the extraordinary technology used during production is the first thing that stands out about Fast Film.
No less than 65,000 paper printouts of individual images were employed.
After being folded into thousands of objects such as planes and train cars and arranged in complex tableaux, they were photographed with a simple digital camera and loaded into a computer image by image.
At least three different images, the background, the foreground image and an intermediate zone, were used to make up each frame.
In certain sequences, this increases to 30 visual layers. The fast and furious story of Fast Film unfolds on the surfaces of the paper objects.
Its twists and turns are so well thought-out that additional details can be found in each viewing.
What was initially intended to be an homage to action movies breaks new ground in the genre because of its extreme density.
This tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood, lasts just 14 minutes: truly a fast film which could hardly be more furious.
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