making the 1999 »tx-transform« movie
Between January and October 1998 the »tx-transform« short film was shot and produced. It was inspired by an equation by Bertram Russell on the theory of relativity and was intended to compressed the concurrence of the substance and science of the theory and the new filmic technique of »tx-transform« into a film. The narrative character of the text continued in images which were given their aesthetic quality by a unique type of movement through space and time. The production of the five minute long short was technically complex and given the relatively limited budget we had to overcome some challenges with innovative and unconventional solutions. The wonderful set photos were taken by Robin Riess.
Between January 24th and 25th, 1998 most of the filming took place at the Railway Museum Strasshof (Lower Austria). The fully functional steam engine we used was a 1943 DRB 52 100 built by the German Krauss-Maffei company. We chose this locomotive because there was a scale model train of it, which we needed for some FX shots later. The cameraman on set is Theo Ligthart.
The model- and VFX shooting was done with second cameraman Martin Putz in March 1998 in my studio. The miniature train model was built by artist Jeanette Schulz.
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»Modern Times« television report for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) by Goldengirls Film Production (GER / EN subs , 12 min). »Kunststücke« 2001. Television report for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) by Goldengirls Film Production (GER / EN subs , 12 min). TIV#8 on June 18th, 1999. Interview by Robert Buchschwendter titled »Die Hollywoodschaukel« (GER, 13 min). TIV was founded by media artist Axel Stockburger, artist Alf Altendorf and musician Thomas Madersbacher in 1996 as a private, commercial Austrian television station in Vienna and existed until 2001.
In parallel to the production of the »tx-transform« short film, a documentary about the process was made at Peter Joachim Filmservice (Vienna) in August 1998. Director Virgil Widrich.