The number combination 7500 is an international air travel emergency code for a plane hijacking.
“Today, we were taught in school that there are twohundredandfive countries in the world. And seven billion people. And none of them knows that we exist.”
Leonie is sitting in her room feeling insignificant. Why does it seem to be impossible to visit every place in the whole wide world at least once in her lifetime?
DIRECTOR: Clara Stern
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sebastian Thaler
PRODUCER: Rudi Takac
LENGTH: 5min
YEAR: 2011
COUNTRY: AUSTRIA
FORMAT: 1,85:1
SHOT ON: ARRI SR3 │ S16mm
PRODUCTION: Film Academy Vienna
FESTIVALS
● Austria 9 Shorts 2012
● 22. Trieste Alpe Adria Film Festival, 2011
● Vienna Independent Shorts (VIS) 2011
● REC Jugend Medien Festival Berlin 2011
● Greifswalder Kurzfilmnacht 2010
● Youki Austria 2010
Variety:
"Lenser Sebastian Thaler, son of Ulrich Seidl’s regular cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler, lights and shoots with a crisp, limpid immediacy that makes him a talent to watch. His work gives even the simplest shot a vivid yet pensive effect, whether he’s filming a nightclub scene, a yoga routine, a wide shot of salmon-colored tower blocks in Kiev, or resting on one of the principals’ faces to catch their quicksilver expressions." by Jessica Kiang (view orginal critic)
Diagonale '17:
"In a fragmentary film with few dialogues, in which much is not pronounced, the imagery takes over an important part of the narrative. In "Ugly", the audience is given a lot of space, in wide tableaus as well as in intensive close-ups. Through the symbiosis of spontaneous and unkitted, but at the same time highly composed images, the film develops a veritable pull that is difficult to avoid. Due to the variety of subjects, lighting scenes and compositions and the always surprising new perspectives, the film is always in motion despite its quiet narrative style." by Julia Drack, Michael Loebensetin & Holger Stern
Michael Ballhaus Awards:
"An intelligent and intuitive cameraman accompanies two outstanding actors, in long moving sequences, with an instinct for body language and facial expression" by the Jury of FIRST STEPS