4 Films by Virgil Widrich
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Virgil Widrich's Films of the last five years: his first film "Heller als der Mond (Brighter Than The Moon), a moonstruck comedy about robbers and lovers ; the shortfilms "tx-transform"; "Copy Shop"(nearly 18,000 photocopied digital frames, which are animated and filmed with a 35mm camera, making for an extraordinary visual feast; his new animated Action-Film on paper "Fast Film": in a two-year production process an hommage to the action movies and a tour de force within the Filmhistory.

Making of all films.

   

01 "Fast Film" | AT/LU | 2003 | 14 min
In a two-year production process an hommage to the action movies and a tour de force within the Filmhistory.

02 "Copy Shop" | AT | 2001 | 12 min
In this wordless film, a man awakens and goes to his job at the copy shop. During his morning test of the machine, he accidentally copies his hand. Soon, he starts seeing copies of himself in more and more places..

03 "Heller als der Mond" ("Brighter than the moon") | AT | 2000 | 90 min
What has captured the interest of a main’s character of the film are Austrian banks, which she says «shine “brighter than the moon”«.

04 "tx-transform" | AT | 1998 | 12 min
Tx-transform is a new film technique that transposes the time axis (t) and the space axis (x) with one another in film. Normally, each individual frame of film depicts the entire space but only a moment in time (1/24 second). With tx-transformed films, it is just the opposite: each frame shows the entire time but only a tiny portion of space. 

Festivals & Awards

Film Credits

Press Ratings

Awards:"Copy Shop":
Nomination for the Category "Best Short Film-Live Action;
Prix de la meilleure creation sonore (Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2001);
Honorary Prize of the Jury of the Students (Int. Short Film Festival Krakow 2001);
François Ode Award of the Jury (17. Int. Kurzfilm-Festival Hamburg 2001);
Best Experimental Short Film (International Short Film Festival Toronto, 2001);
Honorary Mention of the Jury (Filmfest Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg 2001);
Best Short Film in Digital Video (Festival Arcipelago Roma 2001);
Don Quijote Award of the International Federation of Film Societies FICC (Trencianske Teplice 2001);
FICE Award- Federation of Cinema D'Essai (La Cittadella del Corto, Roma, 2001);
Adriano Asti Award for "Best Experimental Film" (Montecatini Terme 2001);
Kodak Award (Int. Fantastic Film Festival Puchon, 2001);
Jury Price (IMAGO 2001, Covilha, 2001);
Second Price (International Short Film Festival Drama 2001);
First Place (Olympia Film Festival, USA 2001);
Silberne Taube (Internationale Jury für Animationsfilm Leipzig 2001);
Golden Spike (46th International Film Festival Valladolid 2001);
Best Short film (inCurt Leida 2001);
Best Experimental Film (Shorts International Film Festival New York 2001);
1st. COMUNIDAD DE MADRID Award (Semana de Cine Experimental Madrid,2001);
Best Short film (Barcelona 2001);
Prize of the Jury (International Short Film Festival Leuven 2001);
The Eastman Kodak Award (35th New York EXPOsition of short film & video 2001);
2nd Prize (Black Maria Festival New Jersey 2002);
Cristal Of Lumiere Award (International D-Cinema Festival, Vierzon 2002);
Best Of Festival (Boston Underground Film Festival 2002);
Prix des televisions europeennes (Festival of Fantasy, Thriller and Science Fiction, Bruxelles, 2002);
2nd Prize (International Festival for Animation and Shortfilms Dresden 2002);
Press Award (Belo Horizonte Short Film Festival 2002);
Special Prize (International Animation Festival Hiroshima 2002);
Best Experimental Film (Thessaloniki Filmfestival 2002);
"Alternative" prize (International Film Festival, Bukarest)
Spezialpreis der Jury (Tehran International Animation Festival 2003);
Eastman Kodak Product Grant 2003;
The Short List (2003);
Goldener Ibis (Jungfilmfestival Kairo 2003);
Best Short Film (Spudfest 2004).
"Fast Film":
Official selection Festival de Cannes  2003 (nominated);
Best Animated Short (Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto 2003);
Best Editing (Festival inCURT, Tarragona);
Special Mention of the International Jury of the Jury of the Critics (Festival de Cine de Huesca);
Great Award for Animation,
RTP-TV Selection (Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde 2003);
Best Experimental Short Film (52. Int. Film Festival, Melbourne 2003);
Audience Award (Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids,USA 2003);
Most Imaginative Film (Odense Film Festival Odense 2003);
Audience Award (l'Etrange Festival, Paris 2003);
High Risk Award ( Fantoche 2003);
Students Award and Special Mention of the jury ( Milano Film Festival 2003);
Best Experimental Film (Thessaloniki 2003);
Prix Special Lyceens (Festival du Cinéma Européen, Essonne - ex aequo "Ligne de vie" of Serge Avedikian);
Best in the category 10 to 30 minutes (Krok Film Festival);
Special Mention (Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Montréal);
Special Mention (Festival du Film de Saint Paul);
Most Innovative Short (Int. Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm);
Grand Prix (Uppsala Short Film Festival 2003);
Premio de la Comunidad de Madrid a la Mejor Película (Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid);
Onda Curta 2nd Award and Special Mention of the Jury (Cinanima 2003, Portugal);
Special Mention of the Jury (Interfilm Berlin Filmfestival);
Milagro Award for Best Animation (Santa Fe Film Festival);
Innova Award (Animadrid);
Jury's Choice Award (Black Maria Film Festival, New Yersey);
Grand Prix (Nevers 2003);
Peter Wilde Award (Ann arbor Film Festival);
2nd Prize (MFA Planet Europe, Palma de Mallorca);
Grand Prix du Jury (La Cheaux-de-Fonds, Suisse);
Best Experimental (Carbunari 2004, Romania);
Film Critics Award,
City of Zagreb Award and
Croatian Film makers Guild Award – (Animafest Zagreb);
Reanimated Veronica - Best animated Film (Tabor Film Festival);
Best Editing Award (Spudfest 2004);
ASIFA Korea Prize for best Experimental SICAF 04
Special Mention (Morbegno Film Festival);
Cartoon d'Or: best animated film (Cartoon Forum Galicia);
Best Video/Computer Artwork (Asolo Film Festival);
Jury Award (Animateka, Ljubljana);
Best Experimental Film (Balkanima, Belgrade);
Best Experimental Film (Festival Internacional Filmets Badalona).

"Heller als der Mond" (with Christopher Buchholz, Horst Buchholz, Piroska Székely, Werner Prinz, et al.). "Copy Shop" (with Johannes Silberschneider).

"Copy shop":»An intelligent and grotesque metaphor about the routine of everyday life and the longing for individuality«
(Jury of the International Short Film Festival Hamburg 2001).

»a grany, schratched black-and-white film that looks as though it´s about to pop out of his sprockets«
(New York Daily News Online, March 2002)

»It was tremendous hit. The audience was overwhelmed«
(Museum of Modern Art, July 2001) 

»no less than 65,000 paper printouts of individual images folded into thousands of objects such as planes and train cars and arranged in complex tableaux[..] Additional details can be found in each viewing.[..] Truly a fast film which could hardly be more furious«.
(Peter Tscherkassky).

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4 Films by Virgil Widrich was added to our catalog on Tuesday 29 May, 2007.