The secret of the grey cells
Vienna 1986/94 / 12 min / 16 mm & 35 mm / colour
Vienna 1986/94 / 12 min / 16 mm & 35 mm / colour
A painter’s struggle against his lack of inspiration during an artistic crisis.
Most parts take place inside the artist’s brain, where a team of ambitious robots try to resolve the basic problems of modern art.
Direction, Animation, Camera, Editing: Stefan Stratil
Idea, Script: Bady Minck
Music: Der Plan (“Glitzer-Gleiter”), Pulsinger/Tunakan (“Love the machines”)
Dialogue-Script: Reinhard Jud, Stefan Stratil
Robot-making: Stefan Stratil, Bady Minck
Sound: Josef Nermuth
Soundstudio: Asifa Austria
Actors: Reinhard Jud (Painter), Bady Minck (Model), Peter Pichl (Speaker) & Sonja Back, Gregor Eichinger, Sabine Groschup, Willi Kühas, Werner Philippi, Helga Pichl, Ariane Proksch
Voices: Andi Karner, Peter Pichl, Sabine Groschup
Voices Robots: Stephanie Maderthaner, Andreas Sobik, Marian Schönwiese, Eva Umbauer, Martin Forster, Alexander Ivanceanu
1995 Salzburg/A Diagonale
Nominated for the short film award “Weisses Gold”
1995 Bilbao/E Certamen international de Cine documental y Cortometraje
International Competition
1995 Leipzig/D Internationales Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
1995 Toronto/CDN Worldwide Short Film Festival
International Competition
1994 Wien/A Filmcasino “Brain Again” Film Series
1989 Klagenfurt/A Woche der Begegnung
1987 Minden/D Kulturtage
1987 Tel Aviv/IL International Animation Film Festival
1987 Stuttgart/D Internationales Trickfilmfestival
1987 Hamburg/D No Budget Festival
1986 Wels/A Österreichische Filmtage
Opening Film