THE BEST OF O!PLA - FOCUS ON POLAND 2020 is a unique program presenting the winners of the 8th O!PLA Animation Festival (2020). As always the only Jury at O!PLA was the audience; partly in traditional voting and partly in online voting (during the COVID-19 quarantine). THE BEST OF O!PLA 2020 is an amazing mix of techniques, styles, and emotions showing what in modern Polish animation (O!PLA means „Oh! Polish Animation”, but also: “Oh! People Love Animation”) is the best. Starting off 2013 O!PLA consequently grows in strength, but one thing remains the same - independence and passion, which stand behind the O!PLA.
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The following films play in this video package from the O!PLA Festival;
ODDS AND EVENS
Dir/Script/Prod: Michal Czyz, Music: P/GGMENTS
Poland, 2019, 3 min 36 sec, Cert 15
Somewhere between here and there ...
ALBERT & JOSEPHINE
Dir/Prod: Tomasz Welna, Script: Aleksander “Clov” Backowski, Music: Kaiser
Poland, 2019, 7 min 14 sec, Cert 15
Albert is a teddy bear. Josephine is a white owl. They live together in a small house deep in the woods. One day Albert decides to set off on a journey into the unknown ... Josephine decides to find him.
COUNTER-STRIKE
Dir/Script: Lukasz Partyka, Music: Fisz Emade, Prod: ART2 Music
Poland, 2018, 4 min 11 sec, Cert 15
When someone leaves, only memories remain…
THE PORTAL
Dir/Script: Jerzy Gorski, Prod: Faculty of Arts of MSCU
Poland, 2018, 1 min 21 sec, Cert 15
Animated epigram about excessive curiosity...
THE NIGHT OF TIME
Dir: Magdalena Lazarczyk
Poland, 2019, 9 mins, Cert 15
The Night Of Time is a large - format animation – a collage. All its components make up the unity. Individual forms are not separate, alienated beings, but they rather seem to be made of the same substance. The Night of Time is a gap, a crevice leading to a world covered under the surface of matter, a place existing in accordance with the invariable rules, manifesting on the border of phantasy and materialism, of fable and science. This is a vision of existence outside time
FAUST
Dir/Script: Marianna Atlas, Prod: The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Poland, 2019, 6 mins 45 sec, Cert 15
This is the author’s interpretation of the legend of Faust, based on the drama of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1833, in which an alchemist struggling to find the meaning of life makes a deal with the devil.
HERRINGOLOGY, OR WHAT DOES A WHISPERER WHISPER IN YOUR EAR?
Dir/Script/Prod: Agnieszka Waszczeniuk
Poland, 2019, 7 mins 40 sec, Cert 15
A funny animated documentary about whisperers from East Poland...
TOYS - “AN UNHEAVENLY CHRISTMAS CAROL”
Dir: Alek Wasilewski, Script: Alek Wasilewski, Claudio Sanchez, Prod: Smile Studio/Coheed and Cambria, Music: Coheed and Cambria
Poland, 2019, 6 mins 30 secs, Cert 15
Someone was very rude here…
THE FRUIT
Dir/Script: Jakub Baniak, Prod: University of Fine Arts in Poznan
Poland, 2018, 1 min 30, Cert 15
An animated epigram about how an idea is born…
SEVENTH PRESSINGS
Dir/Prod: Wiesława Ruta, Music: Hubert Kostkiewicz and Lukasz Rychlicki
Poland, 2019, 5 min 16 sec, Cert 15
Pieces of paper, strings, guitar pick and experimental guitar music…
THE NIGHT
Dir/Script: Alisa Temchenko, Prod: Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Poland, 2019, 1 min 56, Cert 15
The starting point for creating the animation was the beautiful Ukrainian song “Quiet is on the river”, which the author of the film with her husband sings for goodnight to their daughter every day.
THE RAIN
Dir/Script: Piotr Milczarek, Prod: FUMI Studio
Poland, 2019, 5 min, Cert 15
The Rain’ is a simple animated film on the collective consciousness. It talks about how no accountability for our actions pushes us to thoughtlessly follow the crowd, which may lead to a tragedy. The film also depicts a struggle of an individual with collective hypnosis and its consequences for both the individual and the crowd.
THE LAST CINEMA
Dir/Script/Prod: Kajetan Pochylski
Poland, 2019, 11 min 48 sec, Cert 15
The personal story about the last educational cinema in Poland, run by the director’s grandfather. This information was intentionally not checked. Director decided to follow his grandma’s word, who is the narrator of the movie. The film was created with the author’s method combining digital and analogue techniques. The image is the effect of layers. It was made using a digital and analog camera as well as typical drawing, painting and graphic tools. During the filming, around 8,200 hand-made frames were created.
THE BACKYARD
Dir/Script: Aneta Siurnicka, Produ: University of Fine Arts in Poznan
Poland, 2019, 1 min 5 sec, Cert 15
The endless cycle of violence ...
TROUBLES
Dir/Script/Prod: Maciej Bednarek, Music: Elektronikt
Poland, 2019, 3 min 34 sec, Cert 15
Always and everywhere there are some troubles…
