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Spotlight On Poland: PLATIGE IMAGE
This year's animation spotlight brings you a not-to-be-missed retrospective of multi-award winning works from Platige Image. These films burst with hauntingly beautiful glimpses, ranging from the galaxies' outer reaches to the hidden world inside your television.
| The Cathedral (Katedra) |
| As a pilgrim wanders through the cavernous halls of an unfinished gothic cathedral, it simultaneously comes to life and decays, suggesting the marks we leave on the world are both ephemeral and permanent. |
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| The Great Escape |
| Did you know that inside your TV, there's a little speck of sunshine just bursting to get out? |
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| Fallen Art (Sztuka spadania) |
| On an anonymous military base, an army of expendable minions are pushed to their deaths so a psychotic general can get his rocks off when he reanimates their demise through photographs. |
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| Teaching Infinity (Lekcja nieskonczonosci) |
| In this sumptuous animation, a woman and her robot companion land on a mysterious planet where they're given a glimpse of infinity's enveloping vastness by a pixie-like alien. |
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| Ark (Arka) |
| After a virus has decimated the human race, the remaining survivors set sail in colossal tankers to uncharted waters and - hopefully - new beginnings. All is not as it seems in this reworking of the Noah's Ark parable. |
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| Moloch |
| In this ambient nightmare-scape, a desolate and dark industrial plant is home to a raging machine that occasionally creaks to life and goes on nihilistic rampages. |
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| Chick (Laska) |
| In this highly-stylized animation, a woman races home to primp and preen for the arrival of a beau. They wine, dine and get a little raunchy - but then what? |
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| Mantis |
| After being salvaged from the scrap-heap, a female robot's circuitry is fixed and she comes to life. Like a preying mantis, this robot has an interesting way of returning the favour. |
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| The Kinematograph (Kinematograf) |
| Based on a graphic novel by Mateusz Skutnik, this tenderly-rendered animation tells the tale of an inventor who toils in his laboratory night and day to marry sound and colour images, leaving no time for his beautiful and devoted wife. |
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