The Sausage Run
The 10-minutes cartoon film THE SAUSAGE RUN tells the tragic story of a little lamb with the help of multiple Zoetropes, loosely based on the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.
The roles of the humans and animals are exchanged. The human characters in the film are depicted as anthropomorphous animals. The animal in the story, the big bad wolf, is here a human being.
‘Little Red Riding Hood’s’ family consists of the mother sheep, the lamb as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and a grandfather sheep. The forester and his wife are dogs with a soft spot for sausages. The wolf, a butcher, is a man with a serious problem - he has run out of meat.
The story takes place in Zoetropes, which are historical optical and rather primitive devices that display sequences of drawn images in motion. It’s an invention from the 19th century and a forerunner of film technology.
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Thomas StellmachDirectorVirtuos Virtuell
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Paul DriessenWriter
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Thomas StellmachWriterQuest, Virtuos Virtuell
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Thomas Stellmach, GermanyProducerQuest, Virtuos Virtuell
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Ignace Collin, BelgiumProducer
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Beo BrockhausenMusic
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Janek CzechowskiCharacter Design
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Christian WittmoserFoley, Sound Design and Mix
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Nancy BensAnimation
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Kris Van AlphenAnimation
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Aike ArndtBackground
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Project Type:Animation, Short
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Genres:Animals, Country Life, Eat/Drink, Ecology, Economy, Educational, Environmental, Humour, Macabre, Nature, Youth, Fairy Tale
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Runtime:9 minutes 45 seconds
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Completion Date:September 18, 2021
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Production Budget:181,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Germany
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Country of Filming:Belgium, Germany
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Language:No Dialogue
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Shooting Format:digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Golden Kuker Sofia, International Animation Film FestSofia
Bulgaria
May 28, 2022
Grand Prix -
Athens AnimfestAthens
Greece
March 20, 2022
2. prize, best animation -
Mediawave FestivalRavazd
Hungary
May 7, 2022
Animation Award, best storyteller -
T-Short Animated Film FestivalKarlsruhe
Germany
March 27, 2022
1. Prize, best humorous film -
Flickerfest, Australian International Short Film FestivalSydney
Australia
January 21, 2022
world premiere
FlickerKids showcase programme (out of competition) -
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film FestivalClermont-Ferrand
France
January 24, 2022
national premiere
Youth Audience Competition -
Bamberger KurzfilmtagenBamberg
Germany
January 24, 2022
Official Selection -
Curtas Vila do CondeVila do Conde
Italy
July 17, 2022 -
Cartoons on the Bay
Italy
June 5, 2022
Distribution Information
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Thomas StellmachDistributorCountry: GermanyRights: All Rights
Thomas Stellmach (*1965) is animation director, producer, author and creator of short films. Amongst international awards for his independent productions, he received the Academy award (Oscar®) for the stop-motion film QUEST in 1997. He studied animation at the Kassel Academy of Arts. After that he founded the animation studio “Lichthof – Film & Animation” in Kassel and produced for TV and advertising. In 2009 Stellmach has left the company to focus his work on artistic animation projects. His productions include stop-motion, 2D/3D animation, pixilation, experimental animation and stereoscopic. He holds animation workshops and is the presenter of his Trickfilm-Show.
How to tell a story with a Zoetrope?
Since my ‘Spinning Animation Workshops’ I’m fascinated by the hypnotic impact of Zoetropes. I developed a performance, which presents the workshop results in an audio-visual life show on eight optical devices like Zoetropes or Praxinoscopes to the public. Zoetropes were invented around 1834, before the film was. They bring cartoon figures on a paper stripe to life as if by magic. They show simple repetitive movements of one second such as walking, waving, hopping, opening and closing etc..
While working on my workshops I came up with the question, how do I tell a story with Zoetropes?
End of 2016 Paul Driessen, my former teacher of animation, and I decided to develop a story for my new film, which can be told by Zoetropes. The fairy tale LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD seems to be perfect for us. With it we could play with animation cycles like walking thru the wood, looking out the window, saying goodbye at the door, looking at grandpa’s hut etc..
Doing things again and again defines the storyline in THE SAUSAGE RUN, which poses the critical question, how much of our unconscious habits and common expectations determines our live.