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"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", still, 1981
"Color can dream", story board, 17.2.1981
Vertigo: Virgil Widrich during the shooting of "Color can dream", spring 1981
Virgil Widrich during the shooting of "Color can dream", spring 1981

Color can dream

A 1981, Super-8-mm
Length: 9 min., 42 meters

Animated film by the then 13-year-old Virgil Widrich about a man and a small worm fleeing environmental destruction.
Written, directed and animated by: Virgil Widrich
Distributor: Sixpack Film

Events, film screenings: 14

18. March 2019
Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
15. December 2016
University of the Arts Belgrade – Serbia
22. October 2013
Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
10. April 2013
Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
05. April 2011
Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
12. January 2010
Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
20. November 2009
Animated Dreams/Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
02. December 2008
Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
07. March 2008
Lille 08 – Rencontres Audiovisuelles
15. May 2007
VIS 2007 – Vienna Independent Shorts
12. March 2004 – 14. March 2004
Trondheim 04 – Minimalen Short Film Festival
17. October 2003
Hull International Short Film Festival
19. September 2002
Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich"
20. April 2002
Innsbruck – Cinematograph – Retrospective Virgil Widrich
01. January 1981 – 02. May 1981
Watching a documentary on Walt Disney on television, he starts working on his own animated film. Within five months between 23.12.1980 and 2.5.1981, the animated film Auch Farbe kann träumen" ("Color can dream") is produced from more than 1,000 cut-up overhead transparencies.
03. December 1980 – 08. December 1980
A first test for a longer animated film: between 3 and 8.12.1980 an animation is created about a small man that failed to open a refrigerator. Length: 17 seconds.