Porsche car formed from ice and flame | video

German carmaker Porsche has just announced the results of their second film competition, in which they asked 10 filmmakers to represent the theme of 'Thrilling Contradictions' in a 60-second video.

The winner was Ross Cohen, who at 30 years old is already known as producer and director of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival awarded film, Willowbrook, as well as lauded shorts Last Day and Tarantula Moonrocket -- the last two of which he also wrote.

For the Porsche contest, Cohen turned in a beautiful piece called 'Fire and Ice' that uses some simple reverse work to let us see a Panamera rising up from a block of ice manipulated by a blow torch.

His prize includes a trip to the Chicago International Film Festival, and the winning piece being shown as a pre-movie advertisement in cinemas.

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