Brute Force

 

CREDITS

 

concept & direction: Felix Lenz

co-direction & Sound: Ganaël Dumreicher

 

DoP: Stella-Joya Puelacher
DoP [France unit]: Jaakko Taavila
additional DoPs: Felix Lenz • Jonas Heuwieser

drone operator: Felix Lenz
voice-over spoken by: Day Eve Komet

voice-over written by: Felix Lenz • Laura Stöckler

voice-over inspired by conversations with: Karen Barad • Vladan Joler • Diego P. Fernandez

voice-over additional research & consultation: Dunia Sahir

music: Ganaël Dumreicher • Fabian Lanzmaier

sound design: Ganaël Dumreicher

additional sound design: Lisa-Maria Hollaus

voice recording: Noé Reichert

re-recording mix: Bernhard Zorzi

produced by: Felix Lenz

produced at: Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Vienna

production coordination & research assistance: Laura Stöckler

bird sculpture: Lucy Li • Angela Neubauer • Felix Lenz

model building: Isabel Prade • Felix Lenz

gaffer [studio]: Sebastian Kubelka • Jaakko Taavila

best boy [data centre]: Vincent Forstenlechner • Mathis Walter

location scouting [Owens Lake, CA]: Sebastian Thor McAnulty

photo editing: Max Scheidl • Vincent Forstenlechner

editing: Felix Lenz

VFX: Lena Kalleitner

additional compositing: Denis Ketov

colour grading: Fatih Öger

title & credit design: Manu-Sophie Linder
artistic advisor: Anab Jain

further artistic consultation: Marco Ferrari • Bouchra Khalili

cooperating institutions and corporations:

scientific facilities, Grenoble, France: Institut Laue-Langevin
physicist [ILL & TU Vienna]: Hartmut Lemmel
communication officer [ILL] & archive footage: Steph Monfront

silicon mine, Hirschau, Germany: Amberger Kaolinwerke
marketing & communications: Stefanie Jahn • Elisabeth Kraus
communications: Britta Franzheim
geologist: Alexander Braatz

scientific consultation Utah, USA: University of Utah
research professor, atmospheric sciences: Kevin Perry
research professor, geology & geophysics: Diego P. Fernandez
research assistant, geology and geophysics: Samuel Lopez
lab assistants: Jasmine Garcia • Sierra Rose Stauffer
hyperscale data centre Vienna, Austria: NTT Global Data Centers | Wien 1 Data Center
regional operations director AT/CH: Walter Kasal
marketing manager EMEA: Michelle Heitkamp
server racks: next layer Telekommunikationsdienstleistungs und Beratungs GmbH

data centre Vienna, Austria: Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring
managing director: Christian Briese

supercomputer Vienna, Austria: Vienna Scientific Cluster & TU Wien
VSC Team: Josef Beiglböck • Markus Hickel • Valentin Hirschbrich • Julia Wimmer
special thanks to:
Foad Alijani • Neptunia Monna Anarchus • Valerie Bachschwöll • ORF III Cultural Committee • Haidy Darwish • Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu • Isabelle Edi • Eva Fischer • Ines Frieda Försterling • Christina Gruber • Alex Gschnitzer • Karlheinz Hakl • Benjamin Knoebl • Markela Koniordou • Veronika Koukal • Sibylle Lenz • Marija Milovanovic • Bady Minck • Leo Mühlfeld • Christijan Narat • Antonia Rahofer • Anna Rimmel • Laurenz Rogi • Stephan Sinn • Basil Taiful • Tanja Traxler • Nadine Weber • Patrizia Winkler • Linda Wonnebauer • Patrick Zwerger
Produced with the support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, in cooperation with ORF III, as part of the “Pixel, Bytes + Film” funding program.
produced with the support of: BMKOES • ORFIII • Land Tirol • Bildrecht • HUFAK • Die Angewandte
distributed by: Lemonade Films
supported by: EIZO