film type animated film Production Country Germany production year 2005 runtime 7'00 colour
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...

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director Raphael Wahl Animation Raphael Wahl Schnitt / Editing Raphael Wahl Bildgestaltung / DOP Raphael Wahl Drehbuch / Script Raphael Wahl Original-Filmmusik / Original Score candela2 Tongestaltung / 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 of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
SCI-FI-London Film Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (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