Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 1: The Stommeln windmill
In September 2005, the German-Hungarian film production “Losing Horses / Veszítö Lovak” by Ukiyo Camera Systems moving pictures was shot at locations in Pulheim and Stommeln, not far from Cologne. Georg Winter´s Real-Time Recording Method attempted to create filmic situations (Self Organizing Cinema) based on the construction of the reality of “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The filming was accompanied by photographs by Lisa Biedlingmaier, which were then graphically translated by Tünde Kovács.
Windmill Stommeln
The aerial ladder of the Pulheim Fire Department, which has been extended to a length of 30 meters …
.. enables a 360° pan shot, left to right, over the gray autumn landscape
slow rotation (ca. 240 seconds), interrupted by the sudden face-to-face with the emerging cap piece of the Stommeln windmill at camera height.
The film team is getting ready. Tracks are being laid, dolly shots rehearsed, lighting installed.
The director uses a megaphone to give her instructions.
Dulcinea of Toboso comes to the aid of her admirers. She sends her archers.
The archers shoot arrows at the apparitions, causing them to disappear.
A camera team is ready to start, standing on the steep mill mound.
The dolly is about to start on shaky tracks.
Cameramen and assistants are conversing.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are standing at the base of the mill mound.
Sancho Pansa: Que gigantes?
Don Quijote: Aquellos que alli ves de los brazos largos, que los suelen tener algunos de casi dos leguas.
Camera 1: Atentos, aguanta la cuerda
The magician Fristón preempts Don Quixote.
Before he can attack the ?giants,? the camera mounts an ?attack,? shooting both of them head-on.
Stunt horse Bagdad
Stunt donkey Filou
They fall off Rosinante and the donkey and make off.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are lying in sleeping bags next to their reclining