Quest
- Studio
- Thomas Stellmach Animation, Montgomery Film
- Distributor
- Der KurzFilmVerleih
Synopsis
In quest for water, a sand puppet leaves the sand world in which it lives. It wanders through other worlds made of paper, stone and iron, following the sound of dripping water. In the end the sand puppet manages to reach the water... in a very tragic way.
Characters
Sand Puppet
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Tyron Montgomery
Producing
- Producer
- Thomas Stellmach
Writing
- Writer
- Tyron Montgomery
- Story
- Thomas Stellmach
- Story Consultant
- Paul Driessen
Animation
- Animator
- Thomas Stellmach
- Aditional Animators
- Norbert Hobrecht, Tyron Montgomery, Monika Stellmach
Music
- Music
- Der Spyra
Crew
- Photography
- Tyron Montgomery
- Puppet Maker
- Norbert Hobrecht, Thomas Stellmach
- Supervising Model Maker
- Tyron Montgomery
- Second Model Maker
- Thomas Stellmach
- Assistant Model Makers
- Said Arefi, Gisa Brandes, Monika Stellmach
- Story Consultant
- Paul Driessen
- Negative Cutter
- Irma K. Theimer
- Color Grading
- Ina-Maria Rudloff
- Thanks To
- University of Kassel, Professor Gerhard Mathias, Professor Walter Rabe, Professor Manfred Vosz, Rebecca, Regine C. Henschel, Behzad Beheshtipour, Our Families, All Our Critics
- Sponsored By
- Filmforderungsanstalt Berlin, Hessische Filmforderung, Stadtparkasse Straubing
Companies and other credits
- Optical Printing: mettman
- Laboratory: Taunus FIlm
- Thanks To: Sound 77
- © 1996 Thomas Stellmach
Production notes
Premiered at the Dresden Film Festival in Germany.
This puppet animation film, supported by the German Federal Film Board and the Cultural Film Fund of the State of Hessian, was carried out by Thomas Stellmach (story, animation, production) and Tyron Montgomery (direction, direction of photography, screenplay) at the Animation Department at Kassel University.
It was shot frame by frame with an ARRI II BV and a self constructed single frame motor.
The position of the character, the flying paper, the falling stones and the rotating machines were manipulated and photographed 19.000 times and reviewed by video control.
The 12m² sets had to be rebuilt and altered 30 times, the 20m² background was replaced five times by various air brush designs. The mainly two men crew took 3/4 of a year to build the "metal" scenery.
The sound was recorded with a digital PC hard-disc-recording system.
This puppet animation film, supported by the German Federal Film Board and the Cultural Film Fund of the State of Hessian, was carried out by Thomas Stellmach (story, animation, production) and Tyron Montgomery (direction, direction of photography, screenplay) at the Animation Department at Kassel University.
It was shot frame by frame with an ARRI II BV and a self constructed single frame motor.
The position of the character, the flying paper, the falling stones and the rotating machines were manipulated and photographed 19.000 times and reviewed by video control.
The 12m² sets had to be rebuilt and altered 30 times, the 20m² background was replaced five times by various air brush designs. The mainly two men crew took 3/4 of a year to build the "metal" scenery.
The sound was recorded with a digital PC hard-disc-recording system.
Awards
Academy Award Winner, Best Short Film (Animated), 1997