Synopsis:
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…
- Director:
- Piotr Ludwik
- Year:
- 2011
- Country:
- Poland
- Running time:
- 6 min.
- Technique:
- Stop Motion Animation, Puppet Animation
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producers:
- Zbigniew Zmudzki, Adam Ptak
- Animator:
- Piotr Ludwik
- Script writer:
- Piotr Ludwik
- Music composer:
- Piotr Kubiak
- Editors:
- Janusz Czubak, Piotr Ludwik
- Productions:
- Fundacja Filmowa Se-ma-for, Se-ma-for Film Production
- Distribution:
- Fundacja Filmowa Se-ma-for
- Genres:
- Sci-Fi, Abstract, Experimental
- Audience:
- 13+
- Festival selections:
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film, StopTrik International Film Festival
- Awards:
- Special Jury Award at the Se-ma-for Film Festival
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