65 minutesThe 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.
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2024
Showing in this program
Ab Ovo
A film originating from the unique experience of femininity. The power of fertility becomes the source of both distressing and beautiful experience. A visually convincing perception of the surprising and uncontrollable transformations of a woman’s body.
Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi, born in 1986 in Krakow, animation graduate and PhD student at Lodz Film School, Poland. In her short films she takes a novel approach to traditional animation techniques, using unusual materials to create hypnotising, poetic worlds. Her films gained worldwide recognition, including the award for the best diploma film in Annecy for “Ab ovo”. Co-founder of LeLe Production.
Airborne
Airborne is a surreal collision of the word of nature and flying machines. During a psychedelic flight where there are no limits, even aggression can be turned into love.
An Ephemeral Mission
An entity who comes with a sphere creates finally itself something totally different: a cube.
Baths
Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time, lured by the unu-sual light, they are diving deeper than usual. Animated reflection on time and limits of what is real.
Tomek Ducki, born in 1982 in Budapest – Polish author of animated films and video clips, graphic artist and poster designer. He studied animation at MOME in Budapest, at NFTS in London and poster, ani
Impossible Figures and Other Stories I
An ominous ticking sound triggers a massive explosion. A swarm of objects and figures scatters unforgivably. In the aftermath, only a few souls remain, including an elegant elderly woman. Wandering deserted city streets, the tired, stoic woman painfully recalls what was and what could have been. As a flood slowly swallows the city, she shares a final moment of grieving beauty.
Misaligned
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. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order
Squaring the Circle
At first glance, it seems that SQUARE lives among chaos and endless changes. But next, we can notice that the systems in which he functions, are constantly repeated, introduce a routine, hypnotize without allowing any movement. Once, a new element sneaks into the pattern, which for a moment will allow SQUARE to look a little differently at reality.
SQUARING THE CIRCLE is full of graphic metaphors,
Tango
People enter the small room in turn. Firstly, one by one, then the sequences of rhythmical moves start looping and overlapping, but characters do not interfere with each other. It is accurate time compression within a limited space. Tango won the very first Oscar in the history of Polish cinema.
Zbigniew Rybczyński, born in 1949 – graduated from the film school in Łódź. He is a cinemato-grapher, scriptwriter, and director of animated and experimental films. He left Poland after re-ceiving Oscar for Tango. He went to the U.S. where he was acclaimed as the „pope of the video art”.
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