Animation 3: O!PLA Across the Borders, Polish Shorts, Wed 24th Feb

Wed 24th Feb, Anthony Burgess Foundation 8.30pm   Tickets are on sale now here.

Animation 3: O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS 2015 Polish Animation (CERT 18)

Please note not suitable for children so this has been advised a 18 certificate.

Traditionally curated by “the biggest Jury in the world”, O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS- is back! Entertaining viewers from around the world is initiator and main organiser of O!PLA; Animator across all borders, Artistic Director: Piotr Kardas. Continuing onwards to build relationships between audience and artists with the newest and coolest Polish animation from the last 2 years.

NENUFARY (WATER LILIES)

Dir: Marcin Surma, Pro: National Polish Film School Lodz

Poland (2013), 4min, Cert (tbc)

The sun revolves around the building … Beautiful study of light in to Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major.

KAMIENICA (THE TENEMENT BUILDING)

Dir/Wri: Agnieszka Burszewska

Poland (2013), 12min 43sec, Cert (tbc)

A black comedy about a hungry middle-class inhabitants of the tenement building…

BUT SHE’S NICE…

Dir: Tomasz Pilarski

Poland (2014), 6min, Cert – (tbc)

Do not forget that your shadow is always nearby…

PIESYDENT (DOGGYDENT)

Dir: Magdalena Pilecka

Poland (2014), 2:05mins, Cert -(tbc)

Meet a Doggydent and its myriad problems…

DRYF (THE DRIFT)

Dir: Marcin Ożóg

Poland (2014), 4min 19sec, Cert -(tbc)

“Cardboard” music video for Polish band Zespół Kariera.

331 DNI (331 DAYS)

Dir: Piotr Mazur

Poland (2014), 6sec 33min, Cert –(tbc)

331 days of “life” of a flat…

DE HERINACIO. ON THE HEDGEHOG

Dir: Ala Nunu Leszyńska

Poland (2014), 2min 06sec, Cert –(tbc)

Features Explained of the hedgehog spikes based on the medieval bestiary…

HIPOPOTAMY (HIPPOS)

Dir: Piotr Dumała

Poland (2014), 12min 29sec, Cert –(tbc)

One of the most important, awarded and most talked-animation of the recent years. “Ballet of the cruelty”, which is a disturbing study of human nature…

PO MOIM TRUPIE! (OVER MY DEAD BODY!)

Dir: Agata Mianowska

Poland (2015), 3min 38sec, Cert – (tbc)

Young pussy cat shows parents a new boyfriend’s – rabbit-artist…

PASZTET (PATE)

Dir: Łukasz Jedynasty & Zuzanna Staszewska

Poland (2014), 5min 30sec, Cert – (tbc)

Fictionalized music video for the band Kasia & Wojtek, or how it is played literally “to chop”…

MOJA IDENTYFIKACJA (MY IDENTIFICATION)

Dir: Natalia Krawczuk

Poland (2013), 3min 19sec, Cert – (tbc)

Music video for the Polish band AmperA.

SUPERNOWA (SUPERNOVA)

Dir: Paweł Czarnecki

Poland (2014), 7min 30sec, Cert – (tbc)

The poetic image of death (or radical transformation) of a planet…

RZEKI (THE RIVERS)

Dir: Daria Wiktoria Kopiec

Poland (2014), 2min 29sec, Cert – (tbc)

The beautiful interpretation of the poem by Czeslaw Milosz under the title “The Rivers”…

NIEBIESKI POKÓJ (A BLUE ROOM)

Dir: Tomasz Siwiński

Poland (2014), 14min 26sec, Cert – (tbc)

Extremely evocative study of the human mind in the state of clinical death… One of the most important and most talked-animation of the recent years.

DOKUMENT (A DOCUMENTARY FILM)

Dir: Marcin Podolec

Poland (2015), 6min 50sec, Cert- (tbc)

Portrait of a father, whose children live their own lives far away from him.

ZGUBNE SKUTKI PALENIA VER.2. (BEWARE OF SMOKING, OR THE DEADLY EFFECT..

Dir: Maciej Pestka

Poland (2013), 4min 53sec,Cert – (tbc)

Think twice before you light your last cigarette…

AWA ‘N GARDA (AVA ‘N GARDE)

Dir: Bogna Warszawa

Poland (2014), 6min 29sec, Cert – (tbc)

Music video for the Polish rapper SinSen.

LOOP

Dir / Prod / Wri: Michal Socha

Poland (2014), 3 min, Cert- (tbc)

The visual variations on the loop effect…

JEŻ (HEDGEHOG)

Dir / Prod / Wri: Ana Nowicka

Poland (2014),1min 52 sec, Cert – (tbc)

Apple tree, apple and hedgehog…

TRT: 1 HOUR 53 MINS

Thanks to Artistic Director: Piotr Kardas for curation of this programme.