Das Rad
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Das Rad （English title: Rocks） meaning "The Wheel" is a 2001 German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger.
Produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation, it was nominated for an Oscar in "Best Animated Short Film".
The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed, representing geologic time （so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant）,
but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence.
It was produced by the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The two stone people, Hew and Kew, lead a quiet life, which is only interrupted by Hew being covered in moss and lichen.
After pondering the appearance of a village in the valley, the smaller Kew finds a round stone disc that he keeps playing with by rolling side to side.
The centuries fly by.
In the distance both stone creatures observe people building huts, later a caveman appears in front of Kew and sees the stone disc, but is called away by another caveman.
More centuries passed.
A dirt road emerges in front of Hew and Kew, where a trader breaks the wooden wheel of his wagon, which he replaces with another wooden wheel, leaving behind the old one.
Kew realizes that the wheel is the key to all development.
As time accelerates again, the road next to both stone beings is rapidly paved in flashing lights.
Huge skyscrapers and monstrous cities appear in rapid succession across the landscape, rising into a futuristic cityscape.
The building development stops the second before both st...
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