The Void's Foaming Ebb
ShortComedy
A retrospective of ancestral media - from the 8-track to the VCR to long-extinct PDAs - and a meditation on dead data-forms of the future.
Director
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Writers
Johannes Grenzfurthner, Frank Apunkt Schneider
Stars
David Dempsey, Roland Gratzer, Johannes Grenzfurthner
Release Date
November 2, 2006
Language
English
Country
Austria
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Wins
🎭 Top Cast
👤
David Dempsey
as Narrator
Roland Gratzer
as The Media
Johannes Grenzfurthner
as Cuneiform tablet
🎬 Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio
16:9 HD
Color
Color
Filming Location
Vienna, Austria
Production
monochrom art group
🏷️ Keywords
the future
🎯 Categories
ComedyShort
💡 Did You Know?
Austrian comedy show "Dorfers Donnerstalk" commissioned the art group monochrom to film a segment for their upcoming show on "death". monochrom agreed and created an animated short about the "death of media". The producers of "Dorfers Donnerstalk" felt the film was too bizarre and tried to edit and re-cut it, which rendered the TV version of the film incomprehensible.
📖 Synopsis
A retrospective of ancestral media - from the 8-track to the VCR to long-extinct PDAs - and a meditation on dead data-forms of the future.