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BRIEF SYNOPSIS
This complex piece of animation, consisting of several hundred layers, features a setting that is entirely made of weltering people. Within this world, the video's protagonist, Phoenix The Devourer, is an apple on a tree who wants to find out what it would be like to be a man. His wish being granted, he soon realises that human life is an endless struggle. Disappointed, he wishes himself back on the tree.
CREDITS
MUSIC: Phoenix The Devourer
CAST: Phoenix The Devourer, Pierre van Kerckvoorde, Achim Schauffele and many more
DIRECTORS: Astrid Rieger, Zeljko Vidovic
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mark Liedtke
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Almuth Meyer
EDIT: Astrid Rieger
COMPOSITING, ANIMATION: Astrid Rieger, Zeljko Vidovic
ADDITIONAL ANIMATION: Stefan Ringelschwandtner
COLOUR CORRECTION: Acht Frankfurt
AWARDS
Studio Magazine - award at "une nuit trop courte" - Grenoble 2006
1st prize in the section education/compositing/music video at the 10th animago award 2006
audience award and jury's award at the International Video Festival Bochum 2006
prêmio anima mundi especial at anima mundi 2006
audience award at Malescorto 2006
3rd prize and audience award at the 8th Back-up Festival Weimar 2006
audience award at the Short Film Festival Konstanz 2006
audience award "for the most absurd film" at Eject IX - interfilm Berlin 2006
audience award at the 2nd Short Film Festival Diessen 2006
audience award at VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts 2007
best animation at Short Film Festival Lüchow 2007
compliment at Berliner FilmFenster grenzenlos 2006
special mention at Aye Aye - Festival International du film Nancy 2006
special mention at interfilm - 22nd International Short Film Festival Berlin 2006
special mention at Lago Film Fest 2007
nominated for the arte-award at the International Filmschoolfest Munich 2006
nominated for the Hessian Film Award 2007
nominated for the Kunstfilmbiennale Cologne 2007
chosen by German Films for the "Next Generation 2007" program, shown in Cannes, New York, Moskow, etc.
JURY STATEMENTS
International Video Festival Bochum - audience award and jury's award
The festival's guests were highly taken with "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger and Zeljko Vidovic from Offenbach, the audience award was granted to this humorous and technically ambitious production.
Short Film Festival Konstanz - audience award
The audience's favourite was the emotionally stirring, colourful and experimental Music clip "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger und Zeljko Vidovic that made sure: "AlI wanna be, is an apple on a tree".
Festival Aye Aye - Festival International du film Nancy - special mention
"Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger and Zeljko Vidovic (Germany, 2006) is an amazing piece of animation using hundreds of extras forming all possible parts of the setting: the grass, wind, sun, tree-leaves, apples. The 5-minute-long "Apple On A Tree" is a highly enjoyable and perfectly homogenic filmic joke, whose catchy tune telling of an apple turned human and regretting it stays with you long after the end of the screening.
interfilm - 22nd International Short Film Festival Berlin - special mention
A whole world of bodies, poetical, powerfully choreographed, sparkling with vitality. The third special mention goes to the filmic song, that throws a smiling glance upon our existence: "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger und Zeljko Vidovic.
Lago Film Fest - special mention
Jury's spezial mention for the sophisticated visual inventiveness that shows a notable sense for compostion and picture. A video clip, that serves as an occasion for an extraordinary experiment in computer graphics.
Kunstfilmbiennale Köln - nomination
Hundrets of bodies form a tree and thousands of arms the leaves. On that tree hangs a man as an apple. When he is being revived as a human, far from Hobbes' »Leviathan«, he fights himself through a chaotic sea of people, where beasts are bashing each other and there is only one wish, that he has.
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