QUITT
Synopsis:
Leo and Denny, two young guys. Here is a rebellious poacher in the Alps, there is a lost murderer in the Wild West.
The actors, plastic mannequins with human physiognomies, drift through real alpine snow landscapes and the vastness of barren desert regions. They love, ride, drink, dance, pray, philosophy, shoot animals - and they shoot each other.
Song interludes comment on the action and transform it into fantastic, surreal spheres.
Quitt = art, comic, trash!
Based on the novel 'Quitt' by Theodor Fontane
Release April 2023
➔ Episodes 1-12
➔ Trailer german
➔ Trailer with English dialogue boxes
➔ Making of: 7 statements by some of the performers
Category: Animation film series
From: Uri Urech
Status: in evaluation
Production Year: 2015 - 2023
Language: Swiss German, German
Versions: Text boxes ENG. And FRENCH.
Duration: 12 x 11 min
Format: Full HD
Sound: stereo
CREDITS
Script and Direction
Uri Urech
Production
point de vue
Camera Studio
Andi Weber
Camera Land and Animals
Uri Urech
Light
Mathias Stich, Reinhard Manz
Costumes
Uri Urech, Alma Buddecke
Editing, Compositing, Colorgrading
Iris Ganz
Songs, Original Music, Sound Design
Barbara Naegelin
Narrators
Andrea Bettini, Klaus Brömmelmeier, Raphael Clamer,
Jeanne Devos, Vera Flück, Charlotte Heinimann, Janek Holliger,
Gilles Marti, Sasha Mazzotti, Yves Raeber, Dimitri Stapfer.
Casting and Direction Voice Recordings
Stephan Heilmann
Set Assistance
Julian Gresenz/Alma Buddecke
Graphics
EDIT Nicole Boillat, Iris Ganz
Translation
Werner Aellen, Regula Hurter, Camille Hongler
Storyboard
Uri Urech, Alma Buddecke, Dan Wenger
Animal Supervision
Markus Hebeisen, Sabine Hertig, Billy Foster, Mi Zhou, Weihermätteli Animal Park Liestal
Advice Direction
Regula Hurter
Advice Soundmix and Music
Oswald Schwander, David Kerman
Mentorship
Erich Busslinger
Studio Assistance
Julian Gresenz, Alma Buddecke, Cedric Kleinemeier
SUPPORT
With the support of
BAK Federal Office of Culture
Specialist Committee on Film and Media Art BS/BL
Aargau Curatorium
succès passage antenne SRG SSR
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Voices about Quitt
I enjoyed the film around and around.
Priska Purschert
Images from "Quitt" appear again in my mind's eye this morning. Landscapes, moods, sounds, all kinds of animals, bold colours and grandiose black and white ...
And then these strange puppet mechanics. These staring looks for all the drama. That too sticks in the mind. The same goes for the music and the songs with their monotonous urgency.
Peter Burri
In any case, one can talk for a long time about your really insane work, which is sooo tight and in a good sense bulky and elegant at the same time! Bravo congratulations!
Muda Mathis
The film has lingered with me for a long time and the richness of its facets is overwhelming, despite its simplicity, or precisely because of it. Bravo, it was great. This charm and anti-charm, I don't know, I enjoyed the tension field very much in any case, and again and again the animals, which brought the stories to life for me.
Simon Thiele
The music and sound design added another dimension to the surreal visual world.
Renatus Zürcher and Marlise Gerber
The film created a strong impression and a strong, lingering feeling: The menacing and increasingly threatening actions of the human puppets brought to life ... The feelings under the lid ... the pious exhortations and finally the violence......and everything with the stiff "dead" human figures and the living or killed animals ...
Actually, the film seemed like a dream to me ... By the way, I was able to distinguish the puppets amazingly quickly, and they became more and more alive for me in the course of the film. When I looked at the making of, they were all old acquaintances ...
Patrizia Levante
The way the 12 episodes of 'Quitt' were structured, the slow build-up to the
story and the ingenious realisation, it was a total joy to see so much imagination and skill.
*Elsbeth Gyger
The film is extraordinary in many ways. It will not be forgotten in a flash.
Werner von Mutzenbecher
In the encounter with the nature shots and the music (which I find very great), the puppet characters took on a ghostly liveliness ... and topicality, when I imagine how we humans are also being "controlled" more and more ...
Very stimulating and enjoyable.
Bernadette Johnson