Impossible Figures and other stories III
Synopsis:
A sudden meeting of a Man and a Woman begins a hypnotic act – a game of pleasure and discomfort.
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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.
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Following an explosion, a mysterious and elegant elderly woman wanders deserted city streets, recalling what was and what could have been.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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ACID RAIN is set in post-industrial Eastern Europe and follows a young woman who runs away from her depressing hometown. That’s how she meets Skinny – a kind of unstable weirdo who lives in a camper and runs his not-so-legal errands. Their journey gradually leads them towards more and more eerie settings, revealing the attraction and repulsion of rave culture.
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Monday afternoon, everything is drowning in rain and melancholy. The woman in a red coat doesn’t seem to fit in with the world around her. While riding on a bus stuck in a traffic jam, she dreams of escaping the routine rhythm of the city.
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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.
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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.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The video clip of an experienced Polish creator, the author of many animations, is based on the myth of a girl who starred in a famous porn film. The author’s style of simple, uncomplicated drawings and hand-drawn animations on recycled paper perfectly fit the theme of the bleak story.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
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Follows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.
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A short animated film inspired by the life of Dżennet Dżabagi-Skibniewska was created at the request of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia.
- Drama
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A short story about a long road. Two siblings try to find their grandfather’s house. During their hitchhike, they meet various people, but their real companion is a plant in a pot. What will happen when they reach their destination?
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Coming-of-Age
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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
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul – a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative