In the footsteps of the vanished Aral Sea, whose memory still haunts the inhabitants of a small Uzbek town. A film about the consequences of human decisions, and how they can affect daily life.
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In the footsteps of the vanished Aral Sea, whose memory still haunts the inhabitants of a small Uzbek town. A film about the consequences of human decisions, and how they can affect daily life.
Mr. Potato lives in typical, Grandmas’s, stuffed flat. Green, awful wallpaper on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up, and going to buy beer. Mr Potato has everything organized, lives peacefully and devotes himself to his new passion-staring at the box. But one day…
Mother and son are changing places and roles constantly: once, the mother is an adult, sometimes son matures and takes care of suddenly childish mother. The arrangement works fine, until the boy decides to escape from under the skirt of the overprotective mother and start an independent life.
Animated film called oh God is a picture presenting the world observed and created by the author. The reality presented in the film might be described using such terms like inertia, chaos. Animated characters are characterized by a lack of willingness to take any action, are passive and indifferent, unable to create their own reality. The author presents a world that loses its original shapes, loses its identity. Groaning “oh God” as a main theme combines it all, meaning the combination of grimace, sigh, and a quiet whisper of despair over our own impotence.
The other side of a picture hides a parallel world. The two worlds are constantly intertwining and interacting with each other.
Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character, relieved of their visual designates, evoke images distant from its origins.
A film about the relationship between a young woman striving for professional success and her eccentric brother. The main character is a workaholic who devotes her entire life to her job. She believes that this is the only right path and, even though it does not make her happy, she stubbornly sticks to her position. Her older brother has a completely opposite attitude to life and, seeing how his sister lives, tries to convince her to change. He often behaves eccentrically, embarrassing his sister in front of her colleagues and slowly making her life miserable. At some point, the sister has had enough of her brother’s insistence, which leads to frequent arguments and eventually to a breakdown in contact.
A secret life of monumental sculptures from The Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.
The hypnotizing pendulum sets a particular mechanism in motion. A body, space and variety of objects form a rhythmic system of interdependence. The sound interwaves with the image, creating the music of repetitive events. What is the cause and what is the effect? A stop motion animation made with threads on the glass plates coated with vaseline
A short story about an encounter in an abstract world, stylized as the paintings of Giorgio De Chrico. A Man is going to meet A Woman in abstract flying city. Will the lovers meet each other? A Man is trying very hard, like a parkour practitioner, climbing up on the buildings. One unguarded moment is enough to make him lose his senses. And his chance.
Łona and Webber present their second single: ‘#nikiforszczecinski’ – a tribute to street art in all its forms. The song tells the story of a street artist from Szczecin who arranged his works from newspaper clippings, plants, candles, bricks and plush rats. The window sill and the gate of the tenement building in which he lived served as his very own exhibition space. The creator of this video – Lump – is one of the most recognisable street art artists in Poland.
If you want the dough to rise, mix flour with yeast and milk. Then put the dough in warmth, so it rises a bit. Finally knead it well, place in the baking tin and put in the oven. Be careful, or the dough will fall.
SHE, the heroine of the film, wakes up in a strange world and sees her contorted reflection in a mirror. SHE also finds a mysterious map that accompanies her during a metaphorical journey in which she has to overcome many adversities to finally reach the end of her road and discover that to be born again, you must first die.
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
An abstract visualization of Japanese poems called Haiku. Haiku employed in Kigo presents the value of common, everyday things whose beauty is the source of one’s fascination.
Theresa and Viktor, a middle-aged couple, are living in an apartment above a jazz club. They can’t sleep at night because of the music coming from the club. Perhaps it is a welcomed distraction from their mundane lives?
Follows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.
A sudden meeting of a Man and a Woman begins a hypnotic act – a game of pleasure and discomfort.
The protagonist of the film is a woman who trips and falls, while rushing around the house. She gets up, only to discover, that her home has unusual features – it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions and covered with patterns.
Following an explosion, a mysterious and elegant elderly woman wanders deserted city streets, recalling what was and what could have been.