Programme

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Piotr Dumala // Polen // 1991 // 16:00 min

Animation

Based on Franz Kafka's diaries, this piece centres on a few years of the writer's life. Kafka's descriptions of plasticity, desire and sensuality are expressed visually.

Maski

Masks

Piotr Karwas // Polen // 1998 // 05:00 min

Animation

Combining puppet animation with computer animation, this is a story about searching for the one's own identity. A shapeless character, searches for the perfect face.

Strojenie instrumentow

Tuning the Instruments

JERZY KUCIA // Polen // 2000 // 15:00 min

Animation

A symphony of image and sound represents the uncertainty of life and events.

Katedra

The Cathedral

Tomek Baginski // Polen // 2002 // 06:30 min

Animation

A dream-like story about a man, who finds a mysterious cathedral on a remote planet.

Smierc na 5

A-Grade Death

Mariusz Wilczynski // Polen // 2002 // 04:00 min

Animation

An animation made for the last song by Grzegorz Ciechowski, the singer of the band Republika, who passed away in December 2001, before the film was initially completed.

Szluka spadania

Fallen Art

Tomek Baginski // Polen // 2004 // 05:00 min

Computeranimation, Animation

On an old, forgotten military base in the Pacific, soldiers who have lost their minds due to the war have been gathered to complete one final mission.

Ichthys

Marek Skrobecki // Polen // 2005 // 15:00 min

Animation

The only guest in a seemingly sacred restaurant waits for his food. A metaphorical parable about waiting, hope and fulfilment.

Sniadanie

The Breakfast

Izabela Plucinska // Polen // 2006 // 02:00 min

Animation

A couple sits at their breakfast table in dreary silence. Everything transforms when a magical wind suddenly blows through the window.

Laska

Chick

Michal Socha // Polen // 2008 // 05:00 min

Animation

Surreal humour, men, women and nonsense form a story inspired by real life. A woman gets ready to go out: takes a bath, dresses-up and puts on make-up. Finally she meets a man...

Wywijas

Inside Out

Andrzej Jobczyk // Polen // 2008 // 05:30 min

Animation

Inspired by hyperbolic and multidimensional geometry. A man eats breakfast and starts bending, unbending and twisting everything around him...

Ukryte

Hidden

Piotr Szczepanowicz // Polen // 2009 // 07:00 min

Animation

A lonely man lives near the railway tracks. During one of his everyday evening suppers an unexpected incident reveals an inconvenient truth about himself.

Rytual

Ritual

Zbigniew Czapla // Polen // 2010 // 05:30 min

Animation

A man bites dog metamorphosis. It's terrifying how beastly one can be!