That’s why you should not let Grenzfurthner draw a storyboard. But then again… it worked!
(Sierra Zulu’s prequel Earthmoving, last scene — pay attention to the gold colored marker he used)
Earthmoving Retro: Director’s Storyboard
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Earthmoving: Oooh! IMDb with Trivia!
Here is our IMDb entry for Earthmoving… and we even added trivia!
Voila!
Hrubesch’s band-aid in the film is not a prop. Actor Alexander Fennon had a bicycle accident the morning of the first day of shooting and had to go to the hospital to get the wound stitched. Director Johannes Grenzfurthner asked if he could get a kid’s band-aid and was very pleased with the red one with a blue hippo that Alexander Fennon got from the nurse.
…and one more…
Filming Van Hulzen’s blood sneeze was the most unpleasant part of the production of Earthmoving. It was impossible to fake the location of the GPS display, so a small team drove to the Vienna Airport and mounted the device to the back window of the car. Hans Wagner sprinkled fake blood onto the GPS. After each try the GPS had to be cleaned and twisted and turned so it would show the correct geographical direction. It was one of the coldest and windiest nights of winter 2012. It took twenty takes and the fake blood almost froze.
Earthmoving: More Behind the Scenes Photos
We warned you, but you asked for it!
More production photos are online on our Flickr stream and in our Facebook photo album.
Post scriptum: Earthmoving HD video is online!
Earthmoving: A Sierra Zulu Prequel… now ONLINE!
Another day at the United Nations Offices in Vienna. The Austrian Foreign Affairs Ministry invited members of the European Protocol Service, the UN Strategic Command Center for Central Europe, the United States Air Forces and a regional politician from Lower Austria to talk about the future of Soviet Unter-WHAT?!
Want to learn to know our film team?
Well… have a look! Here is the entire list of our heroes of work!
How did we do it?
Here are all blog posts about the production of Earthmoving!
A Glorious Premiere of Earthmoving!
The team is happy to announce that it successfully administered the premiere of Earthmoving… and got intoxicated.
Above: Conspirators… but certainly not all of them!
More images by photographer Raimund Appel can be found on the Sierra Zulu photostream.
Earthmoving: Release Festivities!
It’s time indeed.
Saturday, February 4, 2012, 5 PM at Raum D, Q21, Museumsquartier Vienna.
Earthmoving: Post-Production Frenzy!
Last Friday we declared picture lock.
Our sound sorcerers Sebastien Bedard and Maxime Voinson (of Audiozone in Montreal, Canada) finished audio design and mastering over the weekend.
And Stefanie Gratzer (of Golden Girls) is currently working in the dark dungeons of color grading.
That means that Sierra Zulu’s prequel Earthmoving will be finished tomorrow evening.
Nastrovje!
Earthmoving: Cutting in Progress!
On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent whole. It is usually performed in dark, smelly places.
Director Johannes Grenzfurthner and editor Tom De Roeck can tell you how dark and how smelly.
(Above: Tom De Cutter)
Earthmoving: Shooting done! Proudness!
We finished the filming of Earthmoving (Sierra Zulu’s prequel) at UNOV and VIE.
Two days of intense, creative work with a truly marvellous team! Here’s to them!
Some images for your enjoyment — taken by our wonderful set photographer Magdalena Fischer. More pictures can be found on Sierra Zulu’s Flickr page.
Revolutions are the camera dollies of history.
Earthmoving pre-production!
Comrades! Comradettes!
A brief report from the glorious front line of pre-production!
Sandra Gigerl, Katharina Würthner and Ines Stoderegger are doing a wonderful job organizing the shoot of the Sierra Zulu prequel next week. We promise to blog some pictures soon.
Our actors will be: Jeff Ricketts, Alexander Fennon, Martin Auer, Adrienne Ferguson, Lynsey Thurgar, Stuart Freeman, Achmed Abdel Salam, Günther Friesinger, Arman T. Riahi, Tom de Roeck, Richard Pyrker and Lorenz eSeL Seidler.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as informal meeting!
Earthmoving: On Site Inspection for Sierra Zulu Prequel
December 13, 2011 marked the production team’s first visit to the United Nations building in Vienna. It will be the shooting location for Sierra Zulu’s prequel “Earthmoving.”
Director Johannes Grenzfurthner stated: “I did nothing more than many others; I did my duty as member of the team.”
(More images on our Flickr page.)
Earthmoving: Work on the Sierra Zulu prequel begins
We are currently preparing for a major shoot in January 2012.
No, it’s not a shoot for Sierra Zulu. And yet, it is. We want to create a short film prequel of Sierra Zulu, to spread the word, tell the prestory, and to have material for possible partners.
The film will be called “Earthmoving.”
The Story?
Another day at the United Nations offices in Vienna. The Austrian Foreign Affairs Ministry invited members of the European Protocol Service, the UN Strategic Command Center for Central Europe, the United States Air Forces and a regional politician from Lower Austria to talk about the future of Soviet Unterzoegersdorf. The tiny microstate, an enclave created after WWII, is surrounded by Lower Austrian farmland.
It escaped the ravages of time and is the last proud member of the grand Soviet Union. The border between Soviet Unterzoegersdorf and Europe is disputed, or — let’s phrase it more correctly — so unimportant, that no diplomats are willing to deal with it. But a citizens’ initiative started by land-owning farmers in the border region demands formal status for the Soviets. No official recognition is bad for business, especially lucrative subsidies…
We have a great cast (Jeff Ricketts, Lynsey Thurgar, Alexander Fennon, Adrienne Ferguson and Martin Auer) and a wonderful production team…
…and today we started to take still images of heavy equipment for composting work!
It was great that Johnny Dibon (who is working for Zeppelin-Cat Austria) made it possible to do the photo shooting — from the roof of their building.
(More images on Sierra Zulu’s Flickr page)