Synopsis:
The story begins with a lazy morning of an old lady who lives alone with a few pets. While preparing for a walk with her dogs, the grandma falls on the floor and never gets up. The pets stay at home, helpless and alone. Their attempts to find some food in empty bowls and the waste end in failure. Meanwhile, the flat becomes infested by a swarm of flies and filled with odour of the decomposing corpse. Slowly, as time passes, the closed, claustrophobic space transforms into a battlefield. For one of the dogs the corpse of the owner becomes a source of food and a chance for survival. For the second one the corpse remains a sanctity, a relic of its formerly loving owner.
- Director:
- Michalina Musialik
- Year:
- 2020
- Country:
- Poland
- Running time:
- 12 min.
- Technique:
- Hand-drawn Animation, 2D Animation
- Original title:
- Psie Pole
- Production type:
- Professional
- Music composers:
- Anna Lis, Mateusz Woś, Paris Music
- Sound designers:
- Hubert Woźniakowski, Beat Shop Studio Dźwiękowe
- Production:
- Fumi Studio
- Distribution:
- Fumi Studio
- Genres:
- Drama, Experimental, Non-narrative
- Audience:
- 16+
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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