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Challenges of a Solitary Mind
A Film by Astrid Rothaug, Austria, 2025
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Original Title
Challenges of a solitary mind
Country of Production
Austria
Year of Production
2025
Running Time
3'00"
Language
No dialogue
Credits
Director: Astrid Rothaug
Concept: Astrid Rothaug
Music: Ken Rischard
Sound Design: Ken Rischard
Animation: Astrid Rothaug
Production: Astrid Rothaug
Voice: Markus Lindenhofer, Margret Rothaug, Astrid Rothaug
Supported by: Stadt Wien Kultur
Awards
Best Austrian Animation Film Festival – Audience Award
Festival der Nationen – Best Animation
Distribution
Distribution Company
sixpackfilm
Contact Person
Isabelle Piechaczyk
Synopsys
A snail body with fancy boots opens the film as she confidently strides onto the scene and instantly establishes her most distinctive characteristics: he snail is simultaneously hard and tender with her ever-present house, at once introverted and open, eager to be on the move even if slower than other life forms – but even this assessment only results from a relativizing comparison. (A very funny joke goes: What does the snail sitting on a turtle say when the turtle starts to walk? – “Weeeh!!!”)
Il film si apre con una lumaca che indossa stivali stravaganti mentre entra con passo sicuro in scena, mettendo subito in luce le sue caratteristiche più distintive: la lumaca è al tempo stesso dura e tenera con la sua casa-guscio sempre presente, introversa e aperta, desiderosa di muoversi anche se più lentamente rispetto ad altre forme di vita – ma anche questa constatazione deriva solo da un confronto relativo. (C'è una battuta molto divertente che fa: Cosa dice la lumaca seduta su una tartaruga quando la tartaruga inizia a camminare? – “Ueeee!!!”)
Name
Astrid Rothaug
Country
Austria
Biography
Astrid Rothaug (b. 1996) studied at the department graphics and printmaking at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. In 2018, she studied painting at the FBAUL Lisbon as part of an Erasmus-scholarship. For her diploma project PUZZLING she received the „Förderungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich“. After her studies, she started working as an independent artist in the field of printmaking, drawing, painting, writing and the production of animated short films. In 2022 she was recipient of the AIR Niederösterreich grant for an artist resicency in Westport, Ireland, and spent a month working on linocuts and etchings. All of her works are inspired by her intermediary approach, allowing the different techniques to influence each new project in order to gain an outcome which is, at least to some extent, unexpected. Her independent films such as METANOIA, SWALLOWED and THE MISSING SPOTS have received national and international awards, among them the „Hubert Sielecki Preis“, the „Austrian Indie Adler“ and the „Landshuter Kinderfilmpreis“.
Filmography
Challenges of a Solitary Mind (2025)
The Stolen Dream (2024)
The Missing Spots (2023)
Nature Deficit (2023)
Swallowed (2022)
Metanoia (2021)
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