O!PLA Polish Animation programme (Advisory Cert 15)

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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…

Film(s) To Be Screened

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