ARACHNE

Two athletic spiderwomen quarrel over one tasty man. Can he escape?

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  • Dieter Leitner
    Director
  • Dave Lojek
    Director
    178 shorts, 168 awards, 1600 festival screenings
  • Dieter Leitner
    Writer
  • Sophie Staud
    Writer
  • Julia Pauer
    Writer
  • Dave Lojek
    Writer
  • Susanne Dusek
    Writer
  • Dieter Leitner
    Producer
  • Dave Lojek
    Producer
  • Sophie Staud
    Key Cast
    "Black Spider"
  • Uwe Sattelkow
    Key Cast
    "Snack"
  • Julia Pauer
    Key Cast
    "White Spider"
  • Dieter Leitner
    cinematographer
  • Dave Lojek
    Editors
  • Dieter Leitner
    Editors
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ARACHNE
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Horror, Acrobatics, Uncanny, Kino, Silk
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 17, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    2k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    cinemascope
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 59 film festivals, 25 awards
    all over the globe
    all kinds
    25 in total
Distribution Information
  • APEIRON FILMS
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Dieter Leitner, Dave Lojek

Dieter Leitner is an Austrian filmmaker and photographer from Graz in Styria. He works in one of the media-departments of the Austrian army. Dieter is a member of the Austrian association of non-commercial film-authors and produces shorts for fun. His award-winning works have been screened at numerous regional, national and international film festivals.
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Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors of the 21st century with over 1897 premiere screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry, sci-fi and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, and music videos. His works and distributions won 237 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin.

In terms of content and style, Dave's poetic films are about magic, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities, escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful work on the universal and timeless. His motivation is intrinsic.

As independent producer, he created 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2024. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 11.982 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

Selected Filmography (23% of the total œvre) of Director and Producer Dave Lojek

2024: TRACES OF GRIEF
2023: EGGSPRESSION • OSMOSIS • UMBRA OF DECEIT
2022: CALXOPHOBIA
2021: FUCHS & PINGUIN
2020: OCCURRENCES OF QUESTIONABLE SIGNIFICANCE
2018: I CAME FROM THE FUTURE • SNITCH • THE LAST SUPPER • KEEPER
2017: ARACHNE
2016: SAMA SŁODYCZ • DAS SPRICHWÖRTLICHE GLÜCK • REFUGEE POETRY
2015: FRUWAJĄCA FORTUNA • KINSKISCHRAUBE
2014: THE PRINCESS STRIKES BACK • FILM KITCHEN
2013: HEK TICK TACK • PSYCHIC SUE • PARADISE BEACH • FOCUS POCUS
2012: TWO TOO ODD • MADEMOISELLE NIMSI • SICK CITY
2011: TRUST • BELIEVE • METEORITES
2010: DER MIETER • PERSPECTIVE • MARIES STIMME • FLUSSAUFWÄRTS
2009: KIT & SUKA • MUSE • SERENDIPITY • INDECISION
2008: ROFL • ANGELS • PHOBIEN
2007: PROJEKTION • EVERMORE • FUTILITY • PELT PEOPLE
2006: PARLANDO
2005: DYSFUNCTION
1998-2000: SELBST UND FREMDBILDER IN DER WERBUNG Teil 1-3

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Director Statement

Distribution: APEIRON FILMS • c/o Dave Lojek • Goethestr. 3 • 12459 Berlin • Germany • dave@apeiron-films.de • www.apeiron-films.de • Tel.: +49 175 833 05 87

co-directed by Dieter Leitner & Dave Lojek

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

1. International Kino Cuntra Kabaret Graz, Austria
2. CLUBMASTER + AUDIENCE AWARD + GOLD MEDAL @ Clubmeisterschaft Graz, Austria
3. Golden Anteaters Film Festival Lublin, Poland
4. SPECIAL MENTION on the HORROR DAY @ WorldWide MovieScreenFestival Los Angeles, USA
5. Open KinoBerlino Screening February, Germany
6. 2ND JURY AWARD + BEST EDITOR @ International Mystery & Fantasy Film Festival Ternitz, Austria
7. BEST SHORT FICTION + 2ND JURY PRIZE @ Landesfilmfestival Berlin – Spring Edition, Germany
8. GOLD MEDAL + LANDESMEISTER + JURY PRIZE FOR A NOTABLE IDEA @ Steirische Landesmeisterschaft Karpfenberg, Austria
9. BRONZE FINDLING AWARD @ Senftenberger Filmtage, Germany
10. MAGMART video under volcano – International Video-Art Festival Napoli, Italy
11. Festival of Nations Lenzing, Austria
12. AUDIENCE AWARD + 2ND FICTION PRIZE @ Festival International de Créativité Audiovisuelle en Court- Métrage Cannes, France
13. GOLD MEDAL + BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY @ Staatsmeisterschaft der österreichischen Filmautoren – National Championship of Austrian Film-Authors Kufstein
14. FROSTBITE International Film Festival Colorado Springs, USA
15. European Short Film Festival of Independent Authors Berlin, Germany
16. BRONZE MEDAL @ World Movie Contest of 79th UNICA - Union Internationale du Cinéma Dortmund, Germany
17. Jersey Shore Film Festival Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
18. Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
19. Independent Horror Movie Awards, USA (Nominee for Best Cinematography)
20. SHORT to the Point Bucharest August Edition, Romania
21. Nomination for PEACOCK FEATHER AWARD for MOST ORIGINAL FILM @ Festival Cine Animal Bogotá, Colombia
22. Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland
23. Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, North Dakota, USA
24. HorrorQuest Film Festival Atlanta, Georgia, USA
25. Ottawa Spookshow and Fantastic Film Festival, Canada
26. Obscura Filmfestival Berlin, Germany
27. International Film Festival Bierun, Poland
28. Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival London, United Kingdom
29. Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest, Germany
30. Planet 9 Film Fest Chicago + Los Angeles + Ypsilanti, USA
31. Slash and Bash Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival Topeka, Kansas, USA
32. BEST MUSIC FILM @ Keighley Film Festival, United Kingdom
33. Canaltown Short Spooky Movie Festival Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA
34. CortoDino - Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio Dino De Laurentiis Torre Annunziata, Italy
35. BEST EDITORS @ Internationaler VideoGrandPrix Ruggell, Liechtenstein
36. GOLD MEDAL + BEST IDEA AWARD @ Internationale Walser Filmtage, Austria
37. International Film Festival Ehrenhausen, Austria
38. Diabolical Horror Film Fest, USA
39. Short & Sweet Film Festival Orem, Utah, USA
40. 20 min|max International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Germany
41. Schrobenhausener Kurzfilmfestival – Bundesfilmfestival Fiktion, Germany
42. Videonale – Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany
43. Nano-Con International Science-Fiction Film Festival Longview, USA
44. Toronto International Spring of Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, Canada
45. LadyBug Festival Göteborg, Sweden
46. Tiroler Kurzfilmfestival Wörgl, Austria
47. Harzmovienale Quedlinburg, Germany
48. Wordfest – Short Film Program Berlin, Germany
49. Festival Internacional del Cortometraje FIC Bella Vista, Buenos Aires, Argentina
50. Nachtschatten BDSM Fetisch Film Festival Munich, Germany
51. Mostra Espantomania São Paulo, Brazil
52. Fantasm's Shock Reel Cinema Film Festival Orlando (FL), USA
53. Biesdorfer Dokumentar- und Kurzfilmforum Berlin, Germany
54. Lifft India Filmotsav-World Cine Fest Lonavla, India
55. Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage, Germany
56. 3rd PRICE in the FICTION CATEGORY @ Střekovská kamera - Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
57. El grito de los sin voz Logroño, Spain
58. Fantasy Edition of FilmFest by Rogue Dancer Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
59. Kino Sydney #154 Halloween Special Online, Australia
60. Horror-on-Sea Film Festival Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
61. Volterra Fantasy Film Festival, Italy
62. Latest Visions: Halloween Special Film Festival Belfast & Brighton, Northern Ireland
63. WILDsound Film Festival Toronto, Canada