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The wheel is a German animated short film by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger from the year 2001.

Action

The two stone people Hew and Kew lead a quiet life, which receives a change only by the constant loading and demossing Hews. The smaller Kew is a round stone disk, with whom he plays over and over again. The centuries fly by, in the distance, both stone beings people build huts, then later a caveman before Kew and sees the stone disk, but is called away by another man.

More centuries pass. Before Hew and Kew creates a field road on which a dealer the wooden wheel of his car breaks down, which he exchanges cursing against another wooden wheel. Kew recognizes that the wheel is the key to all development. The road next to two stone is being paved. In rapid succession occur in the landscape huge skyscrapers and monstrous cities. The building development makes just before two stone being held. The skyscrapers disappear as quickly as they arise. The landscape grows to again. Also Hew is now again plagued by lichens and mosses.

Production

The wheel was established in 2000 while studying by Stenner, Uibel and Wittlinger at the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg. The two stone creatures were made of wood bodies and eyebrows made ​​of latex and filmed in stop-motion, while the surrounding area was animated on the computer.

During the filming, even before the start of the post-production, Arvid Uibel died 2000 at the age of 23 years. Stenner and Wittlinger dedicated to him The wheel with the line " for Arvid ".

Synchronization

Awards

The film won numerous awards, including the 2002 Jury Prize and the Animation Award at the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, 2003 Silver Poznan Goat on the International Young Audience Film Festival and also the 2003 Audience Award at the International Animation Film Festival Fantoche.

The wheel was nominated in 2003 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not free himself from the Chubbchubbs! prevail.