SYNOPSIS A former apple regrets having been transformed into a human and wishes himself back to the tree. This complex piece of animation, consisting of several hundred layers, features a setting that is entirely made of weltering people. Within this world, the video's protagonist, Phoenix The Devourer, is an apple on a tree who wants to find out what it's like to be a man. TEAM MUSIC: Phoenix The Devourer CAST: Phoenix The Devourer, Pierre van Kerckvoorde, Achim Schauffele and many more DIRECTORS: Astrid Rieger, Zeljko Vidovic CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mark Liedtke PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Almuth Meyer EDIT: Astrid Rieger COMPOSITING, ANIMATION: Astrid Rieger, Zeljko Vidovic ADDITIONAL ANIMATION: Stefan Ringelschwandtner COLOUR CORRECTION: Acht Frankfurt AWARDS chosen for the "Next Generation 2007" by German Films, shown in Cannes, at MOMA New York, etc. Studio Magazine - award at "une nuit trop courte" - Grenoble 2006 1st prize in the section education/compositing/music video at the 10th animago award 2006 audience award and jury's award at the International Video Festival Bochum 2006 prêmio anima mundi especial at anima mundi 2006 audience award at Malescorto 2006 3rd prize and audience award at the 8th Back-up Festival Weimar 2006 audience award at the Short Film Festival Konstanz 2006 audience award "for the most absurd film" at Eject IX - interfilm Berlin 2006 audience award at the 2nd Short Film Festival Diessen 2006 audience award at VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts 2007 best animation at Short Film Festival Lüchow 2007 compliment at Berliner FilmFenster grenzenlos 2006 special mention at Aye Aye - Festival International du film Nancy 2006 special mention at interfilm - 22nd International Short Film Festival Berlin 2006 special mention at Lago Film Fest 2007 nominated for the arte-award at the International Filmschoolfest Munich 2006 nominated for the Hessian Film Award 2007 nominated for the Kunstfilmbiennale Cologne 2007 JURY STATEMENTS International Video Festival Bochum - audience award and jury's award The festival's guests were highly taken with "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger and Zeljko Vidovic from Offenbach, the audience award was granted to this humorous and technically ambitious production. Short Film Festival Konstanz - audience award The audience's favourite was the emotionally stirring, colourful and experimental Music clip "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger und Zeljko Vidovic that made sure: "AlI wanna be, is an apple on a tree". Festival Aye Aye - Festival International du film Nancy - special mention "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger and Zeljko Vidovic (Germany, 2006) is an amazing piece of animation using hundreds of extras forming all possible parts of the setting: the grass, wind, sun, tree-leaves, apples. The 5-minute-long "Apple On A Tree" is a highly enjoyable and perfectly homogenic filmic joke, whose catchy tune telling of an apple turned human and regretting it stays with you long after the end of the screening. interfilm - 22nd International Short Film Festival Berlin - special mention A whole world of bodies, poetical, powerfully choreographed, sparkling with vitality. The third special mention goes to the filmic song, that throws a smiling glance upon our existence: "Apple On A Tree" by Astrid Rieger und Zeljko Vidovic. Lago Film Fest - special mention Jury's spezial mention for the sophisticated visual inventiveness that shows a notable sense for compostion and picture. A video clip, that serves as an occasion for an extraordinary experiment in computer graphics. Kunstfilmbiennale Köln - nomination Hundrets of bodies form a tree and thousands of arms the leaves. On that tree hangs a man as an apple. When he is being revived as a human, far from Hobbes' »Leviathan«, he fights himself through a chaotic sea of people, where beasts are bashing each other and there is only one wish, that he has. FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION Tromanale Berlin 2006, Berliner FilmFenster grenzenlos 2006, IV International Film Festival Ofensiva 2006, BlindSpot 2 Hamburg, une nuit trop courte Grenoble, Reanimacja Lodz, 10th animago AWARD Stuttgart, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, International Video Festival Bochum 2006, Plattform no Budget Tübingen #4, International Film Festival Göttingen, No Budget Video/Film Festival Weimar 2006, DiBa - Digital Barcelona Film Festival, Internationale ShortFilmFestival Hamburg, Darklight Festival Dublin, Anima Mundi - International Animation Festival of Brazil, Shorts at Moonlight, 13th Open Eyes Filmfest Marburg-Amöneburg, 30th Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, 7th Malescorto Malesco, 16th Shorfilm Slam Hamburg, Vogel der Nacht Bensheim, Anima Mundi Especial, A Wall is a screen Hamburg, Aye Aye Festival International du film Nancy, Ars Electronica Linz, FilmLichter 06 Detmold, Square Eyes Festival Arnhem, VIII Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Pictoplasma Conference Berlin, Bunter Hund 8th International Short Film Festival München, 8th Back-up Festival Weimar, 9th Kyoto International Student Film and Video Festival, Konstanzer Kurzfilmspiele, 2nd International Film Festival Frankfurt, interfilm 22nd International Short Film Festival Berlin, 2nd Short Film Festival Diessen, 23rd Dokumentary Film and Video Festival Kassel, International Filmschool Festival München, 19th Exground filmfest Wiesbaden, CYNETart 06 humane Dresden, visionale 06 Frankfurt, zwergwerk 6th Days Of Short Film Oldenburg, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Short Cuts Cologne, International Short Film Festival Leuven, Future Shorts, Kufife 2006, Max-Ophuels-Festival, 8th Short Film Festival Landshut, Némo Film Festival ARCADI, ambulart 2007, 30th Grenzland-Filmtage Selb, International Film Festival Ankara, REC - Festival de Creació Audiovisual de Tarragona, 7th International Youth Film Festival "SESILY", AniFest Trebon 2007, VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, 13th Short Film Festival Thalmässing, "Days of Modern Art" Bialystok, No Budget Video + Filmfestival Heilbronn, CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto, OK VIDEO MILITIA 2007 Jakarta, shorts attack! Berlin, Lago Film Fest, Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch, 6th Festival Silhouette Paris, Short Film Festival Lüchow, AnToni Fest Weissensee, 7th Filmkunstmesse Leipzig, Media Art Friesland Harlingen, EDIT 10th Filmmaker's Festival, SEDICICORTO International Film Festival Forlì, Design Event 07 Newcastle, Medien-Kunst-Woche Kyoto und Osaka, KunstFilmBiennale Köln 2007, 21st International Film Festival Braunschweig, 16th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival, Eushorts Budapest, "jung + frisch" Darmstadt, Interregional Film Festival Hessen Aquitaine, 13th Berlin & Beyond, Film Festival San Francisco, 18th Short Film Festival Bamberg, LICHTER Filmtage Frankfurt 2008, Green Film Festival GIFT Taipei 2008, moves08 Manchester, 2nd FILMINI International Short Film Festival Sofia, Institut Hongrois de Paris, Festival Cinéfil Rhône-Alpes 2009, Kurz und Knapp Switzerland, Tour program of Kunstfilmbiennale Köln, Deutsche Filmwoche in Krakau, Travelling GIFF, EMAF Tour, NEXT GENERATION 2007: Cannes Film Festival, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Umea Film Festival, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Paris, Warschau Filmfestival, Rom , MoMA New York, London, Kopenhagen, Moskau, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, goEast!Wiesbaden