Rocks - Animated short film (2001)

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  • Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
  • As time passes, the two rocks Hew and Kew watch the world around them change rapidly. But there is nothing really that can disturb their calm...
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    German title: Das Rad
    Directors: Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger, Arvid Uibel
    Screenplay: Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger, Arvid Uibel
    Producer: Georg Gruber
    Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
    Music: Roland Hackl
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    The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, with its Animation Institute and the postgraduate masterclass Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, is one of the internationally most acclaimed film and media schools. On a unique campus including the neighbouring Academy of Performing Arts, the 500 students receive an interdisciplinary, highly practical education close to the film and media market by the hands of over 300 freelance teachers directly from the industry.
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    www.animationsinstitut.de
    www.atelier-ludwigsburg-paris.com

Комментарии • 449

  • @carrotfoot64
    @carrotfoot64 3 года назад +167

    Every time I watch this film I always get a kick out of him throwing the seed and having a tree sprout up immediately to knock Martin over. Such a clever gag.

    • @frostygoat8843
      @frostygoat8843 2 года назад

      Oh my gosh yes... So clever🤣

    • @basketbomberslackingson4417
      @basketbomberslackingson4417 2 года назад +13

      Suddenly I’m questioning if that seed just floated through the air for a couple centuries, when taking into account we saw it from the perspective of the Rocks.

    • @rezakhodadadi.3D
      @rezakhodadadi.3D 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/1YFUiuCtxVg/видео.html

  • @adamjones-ps
    @adamjones-ps 3 года назад +118

    How to make the longest movie ever into a short. Great job.

  • @frostygoat8843
    @frostygoat8843 2 года назад +56

    I love the premise of this, and it really rings true to me. Humans are so fast-paced that we don't stop and look around at what will truly last. And those rocks just sit there and watch us collapse and undo everything, before just casually going about their business again like nothing ever happened. Scary and true.

    • @ENCHANTMEN_
      @ENCHANTMEN_ 2 года назад

      Eh, it's kinda fake-deep imo. Like somehow humans are just gonna spontaneously disappear? r/im12andthisisdeep vibes

    • @klyanadkmorr
      @klyanadkmorr Год назад +1

      It's same for humans watching nature every spring summer shoot up grow spread then dies down

    • @hummingbirdfeed
      @hummingbirdfeed 6 месяцев назад

      Cant beat TIME

  • @Claytone-Records
    @Claytone-Records 5 лет назад +146

    I have seen this film about 50 times over 15 years, maybe more. I never tire of watching it. Pause on the billboard for extra fun.

  • @willmurrin9344
    @willmurrin9344 Год назад +7

    6:00 the wheel decomposing in his hands as he is presenting it is brilliant.

    • @bapgames4210
      @bapgames4210 14 дней назад

      Yes, I laso find it brilliant !

  • @Quantumspace23
    @Quantumspace23 Год назад +12

    For nearly 20 years that my wife and I have been exploring the majority of mountain ranges in the United States, we can't help but see this in all of them. You've left us with an indelible memory, a kind of moss of entertainment always in the back of our heads.

  • @Ken-kj5fg
    @Ken-kj5fg 4 года назад +407

    This is the longest movie in reality

  • @zacksrandomprojects9698
    @zacksrandomprojects9698 3 года назад +97

    Interesting idea. The rocks live life at a different pace than everything else around them. Cool

    • @hundehuete
      @hundehuete 3 года назад +5

      Maybe is it true...who knows? 🤔

    • @enzoguevara6699
      @enzoguevara6699 2 года назад +1

      Because rocks don’t age

  • @arthurweaver7604
    @arthurweaver7604 8 лет назад +175

    I have said for sometime now that our life cycle is to the rocks as a May Fly's life cycle is to us. This video is saying the same thing. Good job.

    • @Lilmisscostumedrama
      @Lilmisscostumedrama 5 лет назад +1

      Arthur Weaver 👍

    • @mrobviuos74
      @mrobviuos74 3 года назад +1

      Nailed it!

    • @arthurweaver7604
      @arthurweaver7604 3 года назад

      @@MrSarevok187 I had completely forgotten about this video. Thanks for making a comment that put it back in my notifications.

  • @JohnLuckPickard141
    @JohnLuckPickard141 10 месяцев назад +4

    This IS pretty much how I imagine life would be like for immortals; the simplest of tasks might take them eons, and everything we deem important would simply pass them by.

  • @thefinestsake1660
    @thefinestsake1660 3 года назад +18

    I've been telling people about this animation for ages. Love it

  • @AkkarisFox
    @AkkarisFox 3 года назад +38

    "theres a system behind that" love the perspective. I would one day like to write a book about a alien species that wakes up to the idea that humans are alive after seeing us as just plants or rocks for a long time.

  • @mghpone
    @mghpone 5 лет назад +60

    awesome film.
    i didn't realize that why the plants and buildings grew so fast, and people traveled so fast, too.
    only i noticed that when human acted normal, they stopped moving.
    then i did realize that they moved super slowly.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
    i just fall in love this one ❤️

    • @gugomes6683
      @gugomes6683 4 года назад +1

      Shoowww

    • @benjamingerbensparreboom5675
      @benjamingerbensparreboom5675 3 года назад

      You see a life of a rock, ... PrehistoriC and the future ...
      ALL times in this movie
      STONES ROCKS as long as The World ...
      This Movie Is 100,000 Years ...and counting !!!!;-) :-D

  • @BlackBvogel
    @BlackBvogel 6 лет назад +47

    Das ist mega!!! Von der Visualisierung bis hin zur Story, großen Respekt, bester Kurzfilm den ich seit langem gesehen habe!!

    • @TLK_WEZMA
      @TLK_WEZMA 5 лет назад

      Бъдете тихи u наденица

    • @molynixon2594
      @molynixon2594 3 года назад

      Tut mir leid für Dich.

    • @benjamingerbensparreboom5675
      @benjamingerbensparreboom5675 3 года назад

      Já seker Sie sehen 20.000jahre im seculas einstein liebe das ...!!! Sorry about my bad German , Het Is lang geleden dat Ik in Europa was ,... im Filme Um Miliseconde ...

    • @maxwurst6379
      @maxwurst6379 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/FFeQrUk6-q8/видео.html
      Was sagt ihr zu diesem Film über mich?!

  • @centaurusa7365
    @centaurusa7365 4 года назад +222

    Coming from the latest StarTalk episode

    • @NJovceski
      @NJovceski 4 года назад +4

      yes, i wanted to see, glad i did, i loved it!

    • @waleedmumtaz
      @waleedmumtaz 4 года назад +3

      Yess!

    • @Pixel2523
      @Pixel2523 4 года назад +5

      Yep! Took me a minute to find it.
      Hello Cosmic Connection!

    • @daddyleon
      @daddyleon 4 года назад +2

      Oh...yeah!
      I'm glad I did!

    • @mickmanus4325
      @mickmanus4325 4 года назад +2

      you know it

  • @azcowgal5837
    @azcowgal5837 3 года назад +6

    I've probably watched this vid a dozen times. It never gets old. Well, let's change that to it never gets boring.

  • @RadioForYahweh
    @RadioForYahweh 3 года назад +8

    This was brilliant. No more needed to be said.

  • @charlesphillips1468
    @charlesphillips1468 3 года назад +11

    "I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
    , I really love to watch them roll." - John Lennon

  • @Farzin-Parham
    @Farzin-Parham 3 года назад +6

    One of the best short animations ever, in my opinion. I love it all. I believe that the speed of time is going differently for every single thing. And the message of the film is: at the end, the humanity and human developments will get stopped if they still growing against the nature.❤️

  • @XolaniMarioMajola
    @XolaniMarioMajola 3 месяца назад

    I love this clip. I love the irony with the "built to last" signage and the dark humor. It is only dark humor because we humans are not just completely altering the natural landscape, or dominating all life on earth, but accelerating our own downfall as a civilization. The rocks are here to witness our extinction as they have done with the civilizations before us. I must admit, I was reading "Is It Time to Shift Our Environmental Thinking? A
    Perspective on Barriers and Opportunities to Change" commentary by Daigle and Vasseur (2019) when I saw a reference to this short clip. You can read the commentary, it's a really incredible writing. If you are looking for the most effective solution to the contemporary environmental issues, you need to change your mindset on how you view yourself in relation to the natural world. In other words, transformative change starts with you.

  • @franksterfisch
    @franksterfisch 6 лет назад +15

    oh mein gott ist das genial. großes lob an die entwickler und alle die mitgewirkt haben selten so viel wahrheit auf einem fleck gesehen

  • @timthrax
    @timthrax 2 года назад +3

    Star Talk didn't disappoint.

  • @charlesdavis7087
    @charlesdavis7087 3 года назад +5

    This was awesome. The speeding up of time... and how it was related to their ability to see. Wonderful. More please.

  • @WeGoWalk
    @WeGoWalk 3 года назад +2

    The brilliance of mankind is outlasted by nature...forever.

  • @manofhisCOUNTRY
    @manofhisCOUNTRY Год назад

    The point of this is to watch it over and over again like a repeating cycle of how a civilization would rise, fall, rise, and fall again and the cycle goes on because the rocks see time go fast. Who else noticed this?

  • @superinventors
    @superinventors 4 года назад +35

    This is a masterpiece!! WOW
    Thanks to star-talk and Neil deGrass Tyson for talking about this, this is a gem!

    • @BrentBrewington
      @BrentBrewington Год назад

      I saw this on The Animation Show (by Mike Judge) back in 2002ish…what did Neil have to say about it?

  • @WLFGNGPHNX
    @WLFGNGPHNX 3 года назад +7

    No, I'm here because of the suggestion algorithm. But Im glad I stayed

  • @zombiminer1708
    @zombiminer1708 3 года назад +13

    I got this randomly recomended in my feed. Love the animation! Love the concept! LOOVE the WHOOLE VIDEO!

  • @tahsinozgur8694
    @tahsinozgur8694 2 месяца назад

    I'm so glad to see this again. This was one film that firmly implanted itself in my memory!

  • @jeridoney7604
    @jeridoney7604 3 года назад +5

    I love everything about this short! The concept, the story, the animation, everything!

  • @FriedFreya
    @FriedFreya 3 года назад +4

    This video found me.
    The simulation has been glitching a lot for me lately, with extreme bouts of déjà-vu and haunting "coincidences" that just aren't coincidences anymore... aha. I needed a reminder of how short my precious life is.

  • @metallist9868
    @metallist9868 6 лет назад +3

    "Ich will ja nichts sagen, ..." aber der Film ist einfach spitze. :D
    Eine eigentlich traurige Wahrheit wird so schön verpackt und alles. Ich muss wirklich sagen, der Film sollte ausgezeichnet werden. :)

  • @azardes2960
    @azardes2960 6 лет назад +1

    Sehr tiefgründig mit diesem "das ist ja nochmal gut gegangen".ich saß jetzt wirklich diese acht einhalb minuten wie gefesselt davor und hab das gefühl einen film geschaut zu haben. Wirklich wahnsinnig gut gemacht und regt zum Nachdenken an. Hut ab wirklich Hut ab!

  • @smaakjeks
    @smaakjeks 4 года назад +1

    I just happened to watch this on Canal+ long ago. It remains one of my favourite short films, ever.

  • @yomama5656
    @yomama5656 4 года назад +1

    crazy to think that the circular rock is spinning really fast yet standing perfectly still.

  • @arunprakashganapathy3591
    @arunprakashganapathy3591 4 года назад +204

    Is anyone here after star talk???

  • @NFSDieHard
    @NFSDieHard 3 года назад +12

    first time seeing rocks animations. That must be hard. It is so cool

  • @samirrde8436
    @samirrde8436 Год назад +1

    One of the best animated ever I seen

  • @nautilusproducciones1040
    @nautilusproducciones1040 3 года назад +5

    Thumbs up if you are here beacause of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Star Talk!

  • @vernalc2449
    @vernalc2449 3 года назад +3

    In the end, Mother Nature will ALWAYS win. We should stay on her good side!

  • @muhammedm1998
    @muhammedm1998 3 года назад +14

    2:19 so that seed stays in air for years.....

    • @DNTMEE
      @DNTMEE 3 года назад +2

      Yeah. That sort of scene is where the theme of the video breaks down. The pine cone would not have gone anywhere since the rock creature's arm would be moving so slow that it would just roll out of it's hand at the end of the pitch instead of making it to it's target. Not to mention it would have rotted away long before that point even.

    • @murphyrout1406
      @murphyrout1406 3 года назад +1

      That's a mistake

  • @danielebbeling4056
    @danielebbeling4056 4 года назад +2

    YES !
    Thank you!
    Awesome illustration !

  • @6SamChat9
    @6SamChat9 3 года назад

    This is clever
    so the structure of time is their everyday regular conversation.
    So in their eyes they say hello in a heartbeat but in our eyes watching them it takes 10 million years.

  • @cpt.shmitt7387
    @cpt.shmitt7387 3 года назад +1

    Gives you a new perspective of the world and humans... your whole life and everything around you doesn't matter. In the end it will return to the earth and only the rocks shall remain.

  • @user-zv9ct7sf9t
    @user-zv9ct7sf9t 6 лет назад +12

    Отличный фильм! Super Film! Schade die Leute denkt so selten. MUSSEN WIR NATUR KINDER SEIN.

    • @sm1ley849
      @sm1ley849 5 лет назад

      Ja, фильм заставляет задуматься, dass wir vorsichtig sein müssen.

  • @joshfoley8862
    @joshfoley8862 3 года назад +1

    I have never seen anything from that perspective before. It was very interesting. I wish there'd be a sequel.

  • @diacriticsrue260
    @diacriticsrue260 4 года назад +4

    Like many others in the comments, I'm here from the StarTalk podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson. I just listened to that episode and loved it!
    Edit: I also really like this film. To whoever worked on it, I just want to say that you did an excellent job.

    • @37thraven
      @37thraven 4 года назад

      Did NDT mention it? Share a link? I know this from my Newgrounds/Ebaums/Flash days.. But everyone else seems to be mentioning StarTalk, so I'm guessing he uses it as a reference to cosmic time

    • @diacriticsrue260
      @diacriticsrue260 4 года назад +1

      @@37thraven Yes, NDT mentioned it on his StarTalk podcast. Here's a link to the exact time he mentioned it: ruclips.net/video/zPy9uRrI4UU/видео.html

  • @hansgruber9827
    @hansgruber9827 4 месяца назад

    I saw this for the first time in visual media studying stop motion back in ‘09

  • @garychandler4296
    @garychandler4296 6 лет назад +10

    Loved the concept and execution! Well done people!

  • @GalaxVerse
    @GalaxVerse 3 года назад +1

    Whoever made this person has activated his 100% barin

  • @renanel8915
    @renanel8915 6 лет назад +7

    And here I thought they were going to live right next to a metropolitan city and explore it.
    That sucks it just went to dust.

  • @LOGICZOMBIE
    @LOGICZOMBIE 2 года назад +2

    GREAT WORK

  • @VishalKumar-xi8so
    @VishalKumar-xi8so 3 года назад +6

    1:24 He stayed in the air for decades and 2:18 here the seed...

  • @kumaragurusubramanian581
    @kumaragurusubramanian581 3 года назад +1

    This is called out of the rock!
    Simply genius..

  • @johnnywhite1681
    @johnnywhite1681 3 года назад +3

    Excellent concept, with time relationship. Perfect tendering and animation. Really enjoyed watching.

  • @BenWillBarrows
    @BenWillBarrows 6 лет назад +6

    Well done! And probably close to the truth!

  • @emperorjcardinollaII876
    @emperorjcardinollaII876 3 года назад +3

    For the rocks, it's 9 miniutes. For US its 10000 years

  • @tshotflash7293
    @tshotflash7293 3 года назад +1

    Amazing concept. Loved the vid. Thanks! Hey Grasshopper!

  • @robgifford3766
    @robgifford3766 3 года назад +1

    Loved it. History of mankind through the eyes of rocks. What more cool than that. Time is all relative.

  • @gilbertgarcia4042
    @gilbertgarcia4042 3 года назад +1

    Made my day. Slow down and injoy.

  • @jenniferbrown7659
    @jenniferbrown7659 3 года назад +1

    Wow. Great. Should be viewed by all. Thanks

  • @lowrider81hd
    @lowrider81hd 2 года назад +1

    I love this so much.

  • @danieltobbens7252
    @danieltobbens7252 3 года назад

    I was curious and checked up on the makers. Heidi Wittlinger seems to have left the field, and Arvid Uibel died young, before the film was even published. But Chris Stenner continued to do animation professionally and is by now working in the major league. He won an Emmy for his work with Game of Thrones. Still only one Oscar nomination - this one.

  • @thundermind5572
    @thundermind5572 3 года назад +1

    Nice little flick about an ancient legend from an interesting point of view. The reference to their experience of time is spot on. Great job.

  • @roach7017
    @roach7017 4 года назад

    what a cool concept. Over millennia, the rocks look on, and every now and then a quick spirt of development happens, then collapses. Like the moss on his head.

  • @robertgray9271
    @robertgray9271 3 года назад

    Das ist Fortbewegung! Das ist Transport!

  • @jmaraf7741
    @jmaraf7741 3 года назад +3

    Fascinating! From the point of view of the rocks.

    • @victorcarjan
      @victorcarjan 3 года назад

      Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
      Psalms 90:4
      “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”

  • @carlwilliamsaxton2146
    @carlwilliamsaxton2146 3 года назад +1

    Such an awesome film .
    If rocks could share whats gone on ..
    Thank you

  • @ShreyaBG1063
    @ShreyaBG1063 3 года назад +1

    It was mind blowing video. 100 out of 200 bro

  • @MrHamsterfresse
    @MrHamsterfresse 5 лет назад

    Der absolute Wahnsinn dieser Film. Chapeau.

  • @lucasszymanski114
    @lucasszymanski114 3 года назад +1

    This movie is brilliant.

  • @davidhenderson3400
    @davidhenderson3400 3 года назад +2

    Took me a few seconds to catch on the fact that they are moving so slow they see every thing at a sped up speed.

  • @benjamingerbensparreboom5675
    @benjamingerbensparreboom5675 3 года назад

    Rocks rules!!!4ever!!awesome animation!!!!

  • @olgierdogden4742
    @olgierdogden4742 3 года назад +1

    I knew Rocks were alive and now we have the actual proof!

  • @Moonfight
    @Moonfight 3 года назад

    Dieser Zeitraffer ist echt cool gemacht worden!
    Lustig das mit den 3 Steinen.
    In der Zeit des Neandertalers angefangen bis hin zu einer unwirklichen Zeit wo die Stadt nur noch aus Metall besteht und dann plötzlich verschwand und überall ist Gras über die Sachen gewachsen. XD

  • @damianmlamb
    @damianmlamb 3 года назад +1

    This was great!

  • @pronoynath890
    @pronoynath890 2 года назад +1

    Nothing is permanent in this world

  • @traderlincolnmitchell9786
    @traderlincolnmitchell9786 3 года назад

    absolutely brillant very very good.

  • @XenotHedgehog
    @XenotHedgehog Год назад

    "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair..."

  • @tedunguent156
    @tedunguent156 3 года назад +1

    Genius! Absolutely brilliant! Bravo!!

  • @thebillionaire_CR7
    @thebillionaire_CR7 3 года назад +1

    Neil Degrasse Tyson brought me here. Heard about this on Star Talk.👌💯🔥

  • @observer6307
    @observer6307 3 года назад +1

    It takes millions of years to live this in real💀

  • @redteggy
    @redteggy 3 года назад +1

    The rocks were here before and they still gone be here long after we're gone

  • @mimomehni446
    @mimomehni446 3 года назад

    Wonderful.

  • @user-do8sd3jg8g
    @user-do8sd3jg8g 5 лет назад

    Super gemacht. Eine Spezies die so langsam ist, das sie uns und wir sie nicht wahrnehmen können.

  • @shekelafarmer8306
    @shekelafarmer8306 2 года назад +1

    Neat artwork work of made-up characters.👌

  • @Cardiologist89
    @Cardiologist89 3 года назад

    One offff the best !!

  • @dimassmaster9
    @dimassmaster9 3 года назад

    Excellent !!!

  • @DreamsWalker
    @DreamsWalker 3 года назад

    The pass of time is relative, it says it the science, it says it the life, that's how the things are, a very smart and fascinating film, thumbs up!

  • @user-qm4or3bt4v
    @user-qm4or3bt4v 3 года назад

    The deepest and most unique thing I've watched in a month or more

  • @Fam2014Ch
    @Fam2014Ch 3 года назад +1

    Time.... its in your hands...

  • @Yoctopory
    @Yoctopory 3 года назад

    This is the most awesom movie I have seen in a long time.

  • @lukashauptmeier
    @lukashauptmeier 7 лет назад +7

    Stark. Die Idee muss man erstmal haben.

  • @BirgitH4711
    @BirgitH4711 3 года назад +1

    Klasse .. 😁👍

  • @saraflorez7253
    @saraflorez7253 3 года назад

    To all future Architects !!!

  • @PascalThalmann
    @PascalThalmann 3 года назад

    i was looking for that shortfilm for years.

  • @willi-fg2dh
    @willi-fg2dh 3 года назад

    finally, people(?) who understand deep time!

  • @fernsehfilmegucker
    @fernsehfilmegucker 6 лет назад

    Wirklich erstklassik gemacht, ein lob an die Personen die das Video gemacht haben.

  • @michellemcfarland80
    @michellemcfarland80 3 года назад +1

    Ahhh, Rocks! We’d B nowhere wo a foundation! 💗

  • @Nikki.H
    @Nikki.H 3 года назад +1

    This was amazing x) I loved seeing time go by from their perspective.