screening format
35mm
Inspired by Stanislav Lems short stories about the spaceman Ijon Tichy, X tells a tale of a space travel adventure. A astronaut loses his identity when an inexplicable space machine produces countless copies of him and his spaceship. In his fight to eradicate these counterfeits, his own authenticity is being questioned...
director
Raphael Wahl
Animation
Raphael Wahl
Editing
Raphael Wahl
DOP
Raphael Wahl
Script
Raphael Wahl
Original Score
candela2
Sound Design
candela2
film school
Kunsthochschule Kassel
Festivals
ANIMA MUNDI, International Animation Festival of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
Edinburgh International Film Festival, United Kingdom
Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom
Sci-Fi-London, United Kingdom
(Best Short Film)
cellu l’art Kurzfilmfestival Jena, Germany
(2. Preis der Jury)
Production
- Raphael Wahl
- Julienstr. 6
- 34121 Kassel
- +49 561 9372881
Distribution
- Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
- Stine Wangler
- Bodenstedtstr. 16
- 22765 Hamburg
- +49 40 39106328
- http://sales.shortfilm.com
Sales
- Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
- Stine Wangler
- Bodenstedtstr. 16
- 22765 Hamburg
- +49 40 39106328
- http://sales.shortfilm.com
School
- Kunsthochschule Kassel
Raphael Wahl
Born 1976 in Stuttgart;
since 1998 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Kassel, he attended the animation courses of prof. Paul Driessen and Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Filmography
2003 Rapunzel