Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 1: The Stommeln windmill
Pulheim und Stommeln, unweit von Köln, waren im September 2005 die Drehorte der deutsch – ungarischen Filmproduktion “Losing Horses / Veszítö Lovak” von Ukiyo Camera Systems moving pictures. Das von Georg Winter entwickelte Echtzeit-Aufnahmeverfahren versucht, ausgehend von Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen des “Don Quixote von la Mancha” von Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, filmische Situationen zu schaffen (Self Organizing Cinema). Die Dreharbeiten wurden von Lisa Biedlingmaier fotografisch begleitet und die Fotografien von Tünde Kovács zeichnerisch übersetzt.
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
