The short film programme Condensed Worlds offers a poignant and Polish glimpse into the intricacies of human existence.
The short film programme Condensed Worlds offers a poignant and Polish glimpse into the intricacies of human existence. Amongst chaos, mankind loves routines and rituals in the hope to find meaning even though it's fleeting. Somewhere between the abstract and the concrete, between fantasy and reality, these worlds feel as if they're smaller than they need to be. Showcasing some of Poland's most remarkable animated shorts, including the very first Oscar winner in the history of Polish cinema, this programme features films by acclaimed directors such as Marta Pajek, Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi and Zbignieuw Rybczński.
This program was curated by Ewa Borysewicz and Katarzyna Surmacz.
While a new life awakes, the female body uncontrollably starts to transform. Ab Ovo is an incredibly powerfully visual animation that illustrates the power of fertility and how it becomes the source of a both distressing and beautiful experience.
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What starts off as a stylized aerial battle film slowly becomes an aesthetically pleasing film about the interface between nature, technology and human behavior. Even agression can be turned into love during this pscyhedelic flight that knows no limits.
A white sphere descends, seemingly exploring the universe in which it moves. Then it stops and unfolds. From it emerges a entity who, like a magician, animates matter... It finally creates something new: cubes.
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Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming session. This time they are diving deeper than usual, staggering between fantasy and reality, life and death, body and consciousness, past and future.
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The first - and paradoxically - the final part of Marta Pajek's triptych, Impossible Figures and Other Stories I follows an elegant elderly woman wandering deserted city streets, recalling what was and what could have been. As a flood slowly swallows the city, she shares a final moment of grieving beauty.
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The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates.
Square lives among chaos and endless changes. Routine is his only safety. But once a new element sneaks into the pattern, it will allow Square to look a little differently at reality.
The winner of the very first Oscar in the history of Polish cinema, Tango is a metaphor for human fate in which repetitious every day acts and a growing number of people become a meaningful choreography.
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