Calendar June 24, 2019 10:08

I had the pleasure to create a new animated intro for Austin Polish Film Festival. Music was composed by Adam Brzozowski.

Posted June 24, 2019 10:08

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Calendar April 7, 2019 14:05

I finally have a teaser of my new short film "Olga's Diamond". Here it is!

Posted April 7, 2019 14:05

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Calendar February 11, 2019 15:17

"Olga's Diamond" is finished!

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Production of my new short film "Olga's Diamond" has ended. Big thanks to all of the crew members! I will let you know when and where will be the premiere as soon as I know. Here is the official poster along with stills from the film.

Posted February 11, 2019 15:17

Calendar June 6, 2018 12:54

I am happy to announce that Moczarski's Case was selected to the competition of upcoming 17th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2018. It will be screened in the evening of 25th August at the Grand Hall of JMS Aster Plaza. I am planning to go to this great festival!

Posted June 6, 2018 12:54

Calendar February 5, 2018 16:35

I was interviewed by Pauliina Leppinen from Tampere Film Festival. The topic was my recent animation Moczarski's Case. It will be screened at upcoming festival in Focus on Poland programme.

You can find the full interview HERE.

Posted February 5, 2018 16:35

Calendar October 30, 2017 11:50

Production of "Olga's Diamond" has started!

We are now in production of my new short film "Olga's Diamond". I just came back from the set. The film is produced by Ron Dyens and Izabela Igel, starring: Piotr Rogucki and Zofia Dobosz. We are planning to finish everything till March.

Posted October 30, 2017 11:50

Calendar March 15, 2017 16:58

Moczarski's Case in competition at Annecy

Good news from France! My new animation Moczarski's Case is in short film competition at Annecy Animation Film Festival. I really didn't expect tahat. A great thanks to all the animators and collaborators who worked with me on the project and to the producer - Kazimierz and Zofia Moczarski Foundation.

There are 6 polish animation films in two sections of the festival - short film competition and graduation films competition.

Here is a link to the festival page.

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Posted March 15, 2017 16:58

Calendar July 18, 2016 12:21

Teaser of my new animation - Moczarski's Case  now avaliable online. Enjoy.

Posted July 18, 2016 12:21

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Calendar June 13, 2016 19:50

Blue Room at Annecy !

Tomorrow A Blue Room will be presented at Annecy Animation Festival in a special programme - French Animation: The Mirror Effect – Eastern Wind. If you are somewhere around I wormly invite you to join the screening. The second screening will be on Wednesday.
Here is more info: http://www.annecy.org/programme:en/index:rdv-200001500081

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Posted June 13, 2016 19:50

Calendar June 7, 2016 11:40

The Ornament in color

Here is the first color version of the ornament design to my film project - Diamond, Whale and the Ornament of Life. I am posting as I promised.

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Posted June 7, 2016 11:40

Calendar May 18, 2016 16:44

The Ornament of Life

I am currently working on preproduction to my long feature project "Diamond, Whale and the Ornament of Life" and simultaneously to a short film which will precede and correspond to the long one - "Olga's Diamond". Here is a concept art for the ormanet, that will be revealing itself in one scene (in both films). I drew it for a week with a pencil. The final version will be in color. I will let you know when it will be ready.

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Posted May 18, 2016 16:44

Calendar March 11, 2016 09:39

Here is a brand new poster to my new short animation - Moczarski's Case.

Posted March 11, 2016 09:39

Calendar February 9, 2016 23:30

I will be participating in a an international artistic project “Topography of Freedom”. The artists taking part in the exhibition are obliged to interpret one of Franz Kafka’s aphorisms.
Here is my visual interpretation of one of them:

His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the fight, his work was the whitewashing of one corner in a clerk's office. [Kaiser/Wilkins]

The project curator is Zbignew Bajek.

Posted February 9, 2016 23:30

Calendar December 11, 2015 11:25

MOCZARSKI'S CASE

Here is a first information about my new short animation - Moczarski's CaseIt is the story of Kazimierz Moczarski - a famous Polish journalist, a resistance officer  in occupied Poland during WW2, author of a book called Conversations with an Executioner.

 The film in a metaphorical way tells the story of his life and his encounter with a Nazi general - Jürgen Stroop, the liquidator of the Warsaw Ghetto.

I want to thank to all the artists who participated in the creation of this animation.

The film was produced by Fundacja im. Kazimierza i Zofii Moczarskich (Kazimierz and Zofia Moczarski Foundation) and subsidized by National Centre for Culture Poland.

The author of the music is Adam Brzozowski.

 

Here is more specific info about the whole story:

During WW2, Polish resistance officer Kazimierz Moczarski prepared an assassination attempt on SS General Jürgen Stroop. Stroop commanded the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which led to the murder of Warsaw's Jews.

After the War ended, courts in Communist Poland sentenced them both to death. Awaiting execution, they were thrown together in the same prison cell. During this time, Moczarski was regularly tortured and interrogated by the secret police.

Stroop was hanged in 1952. 

In 1956, after the end of Stalinism, Moczarski was acquitted and rehabilitated. Moczarski later recorded his 9 month prison confrontation with Stroop in his book Conversations with an Executioner.

Posted December 11, 2015 11:25

Calendar December 11, 2015 10:19

By decision of jury composed of: Thomas Renoldner (chairman), Svietlana Filippova, Teresa Glad, Cecilia Traslaviña, A Blue Room was awarded with Silver Jabberwocky - the second award in animation category at the 22. IFF ETIUDA&ANIMA (Krakow, Poland).

The film was awarded because it offers a strong reflection how memories work in a traumatic situation - as stated in the jury comment. 

The winner of the Anima competition was Erlking directed by  Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland).

 

Here is a link to a list of all awardes films.

Posted December 11, 2015 10:19

Calendar June 10, 2015 11:39

Blue Room won a Silver Hobby-Horse (for the best polish animation) at the 55th Krakow Film Festival.

The jury chairman was Piotr Dumała. The film was awarded for finding exceptionally accurate visual means to express the metaphysical value of the human existence.

Here is a link to a list of all awarded films.

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Posted June 10, 2015 11:39

Calendar April 7, 2015 15:41

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I just came back from the Hong Kong IFF where "Blue Room" received a JURY PRIZE in a short film category. The jury consisted of: FUJIOKA Asako, Heinz HERMANNS and CHAN Chui Hing, Nose.

Jury’s comment: A single fatal moment extended in the life of the protagonist. This hand-drawn animation film transforms a simple four-walled room into a multitude of vehicles for memory travel using unexpected visual and audio aesthetics, assuredly expressing the depth of human trauma and personal experience.

 

 

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Also recently my film was awarded in Bezons (France) at the Ciné Poème Film Festival where it received PRIX DE LA JEUNESSE. The jury members were Nathalie Guen (Winner of Laurent Terzieff 2014) and 7 youth.

Posted April 7, 2015 15:41

Calendar March 11, 2015 13:48

A Blue Room was awarded the French Television Award (Prix France Télévisions) equally with La maison de poussière by Jean-Claude Rozec. The award was presented at the Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Part of the award is a commitment of France 3 to buy my next short film. This is very good news for me.

Posted March 11, 2015 13:48

Calendar January 4, 2015 17:08

I recently returned from NEXT STEP workshop where, together with the other participants we have developed our feature film projects.
The workshop was organized by the Semaine de la Critique and Torino Film Lab. The participants were all the directors of short films that were presented at Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Critics' Week section.
My main consultants were: Julien Lilti co-scriptwriter of HIPPOCRATESFabio Grassadonia - co-scriptwriter and co-director of SALVOEwa Puszczyńska - producer of Pawel Pawlikowski’s IDA and Fabien Gaffez - Short Film Coordinator at La Semaine de la Critique. The workshops ware grat and very fruitfull for me. Big thanks to all the organisers and consultants!
My film, which I am currently working on is called Diamond, Whale and the Ornamet life. The film will be about the relationship between a father and a daughter in a context of a fairy tale about the nature of time.
Here's the poster.

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HERE you can find an official catalogue issued for this occasion

And HERE is  a link to the Semaine de la Critique website.

Posted January 4, 2015 17:08

Calendar January 4, 2015 16:21

"A Blue Room" received a Special Mention from the jury member Tess Martin at Aniamteka 11th Animated Film Festival in Ljubljana - Slovenia.

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From the statement:

Dreams are notoriously hard to capture accurately in art. But this film depicts a strange, unnerving and surreal environment that convinces us we are in a dream, or a nightmare. But why the nightmare? The story unfolds so that we are given clues to the protagonist's plight without giving too much away, and yet by the end we are given a resolution that explains a lot of what has come before, making it a satisfying, if unsettling experience. Because of its ambitious and challenging storytelling choices, my special mention goes to A Blue Room by Tomasz Siwinski.

HERE you can find a list of all awarded films. The Grand Prix went to Ewa Borysewicz for To Thy Heart.

On the right I am publishing an interview done with me on the occasion of the festival.

Posted January 4, 2015 16:21