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Synecdoche, New York
Twitch Exclusive! Stellar German Short DRUCKBOLZEN Online!
Posted by Todd Brown at 7:58pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Continental Europe & Russia.
Just last month we were very pleased to present to you, the Twitch faithful, the trailer for fantastic German genre-mashing short film Kingz, the latest effort from the film making duo of Benni Diez and Marinko Spahić. Well, the duo’s working relationship began before Kingz and when they offered me a look at their first ever short film, a film school collaboration titled Druckbolzen (Pressure Bolt in English) which they shot for a shockingly low budget of a mere two hundred and fifty Euro, I couldn’t say no. And after dragging my jaw off the floor I immediately asked if there were any way I could present the film online to the readership here. Happily they agreed and we were able to get permission from all of the involved parties to do just that.
I don’t want to say too much about it before you have the chance to watch, but let me say this. Druckbolzen proves conclusively that while money can go a long way to mask a lack of talent the truly talented can create entire worlds for nothing. Diez and Spahić are, to put it simply, hugely talented, and with their paltry budget put together a film that would do Alex Proyas, Terry Gilliam or David Lynch proud. You’ll find the entire short in the Twitch Player below the break.
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The Amazing Psycho Per 03/14/2008 @ 8:57pm
Well if you’re down dragging your jaw off the floor could you give me a hand dragging mine? Holly sh*t! A student film!?! These guys have talent.
nitty 03/15/2008 @ 7:38am
Wow!Nice.I’d love to see more from these guys.
macgregaaa 03/20/2008 @ 9:41am
I was wondering…i can see that its green screened, but how were the backgrounds done, did they draw them?
Benni Diez 03/21/2008 @ 6:47am
Hi guys and thanks for the love!
Yes, I painted the backgrounds and textures, and then put them on the 3d geometry. Pretty much everything is fake. The only things real are: The actor (of course), the chair, the papers and his ‘toolset’. The rest, incl. the lamp and the desk surface, are all zeroes and ones.
XacK 03/30/2008 @ 7:55am
Technical achievement aside, it’s a tidy summarization of the relation between the worker and the capitalist, and a clear hail to Marx.