Caravan Palace: How to make tin man legs
June 12th, 3049. Humans are long gone from the planet. Instead, the planet is teeming with artificial intelligence and lots of tin men. Caravan Palace, a music film by four creative people who met in 2017 at the Vorarlberg C hoch 3 Coaching, tells how the story could continue. And as so often with C hoch 3, chance played a decisive role.
There was once the filmmaker Alena Urbel, born in Kazakhstan, who recently moved to Vorarlberg for private reasons. Before that, she had studied TV directing in Moscow and worked as a writer and director for Galileo. Now she was in the middle of plans for her new independence and so the Facebook invitation to the C hoch 3 coaching came at just the right time. "It spoke to me and sounded like it would help me get started." The basic idea of positioning herself in the stop-motion field was in broad strokes. "I was particularly fascinated by the emotions that arise from stop-motion. ...that other film techniques can't do." The first examples of work with Lego were successful, but Urbel wasn't sure if there was enough demand in Vorarlberg. "The team's feedback motivated me and convinced me to really try it." Together with Simon Fussenegger, Katharina Koutnik and Johannes Rüf, she developed the idea of making a stop-motion film about the search for origins, artificial intelligence and the role of humans in this development. The four were also motivated by the realization that this technique or the combination of techniques - craft, stop-motion and motion design - was still rather unknown in this country.
Alena Urbel contributed her experience with film and stop-motion, Katarina Koutnik her know-how from previous film productions, Simon Fussenegger took over 3D graphics and title animations, and Johannes Rüf, who died after the film was completed, will be remembered by his team colleagues for his skill and experience in metal design. Inspired by the electro swing of the French band Caravan Palace, the four of them developed the story, produced characters and set and shot the film in an extremely elaborate stop-motion process. Each scene is re-enacted with puppets in backdrops and changed frame by frame by a tenth of a millimetre, so that when played back the impression of flowing movements is created. Handmade characters and set designs are supported by computer animation.
"A definitely enriching and valuable experience," is how filmmaker Kathrin Koutnik describes her time at C hoch 3. Her motivation for taking part in the coaching was to network with other creative people as a newly arrived Viennese in the west of Austria. This was successful, she says today: "I found the exchange with participants and lecturers very inspiring. The diversity among the participants and the cooperation in the team still have a positive effect. "The C hoch 3 creative workshop enabled me to get a taste of different design areas and at the same time convey my field of work to others," says Simon Fussenegger looking back. And the benefit for Alena Urbel? She also benefited from the "exchange with other creative people and valuable insights". The experimental music film was presented at the C hoch 3 graduation ceremony and then distributed via social media. Playground Pictures, the company that Urbel founded with the start-up aid of C hoch 3, now works for renowned customers.
To the video: https://vimeo.com/251770270
Photos: Caravan Palace /Alena Urbel, Johannes Rüf, Katharina Koutnik, Simon Fussenegger
Music: Caravan Palace, 12 juin 3049
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