INVENTORIUM OF TRACES
POLISH TITLE: INWENTORIUM ŚLADÓW
This film was made as a result of fascination with the castle in Łańcut and Count Jan Potocki, who once wrotea play entitled Recueil des Parades to be staged in his castle, held by the famous animation duo. The materialshot in Łańcut, which includes recordings from the gallery of paintings and old artefacts, fragments of reports fromcontemporary visits to the museum, illustrations to the old editions of the novel Manuscrit trouve a Saragosse andspinet keys, is used to achieve a cinematic performance where the leading motive is a visit of the count’s ghost tothe castle at night.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 23'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
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Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- SCRIPT:
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Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- DOP:
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Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- EDITOR:
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Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- MUSIC:
- Krzysztof Penderecki, Małgorzata Sady
- PRODUCTION:
- Serafiński Studio Sp.
Stephen i Timothy Quay were born in 1947 in Norristown. They graduated from the Academy of Art in Philadelphia and the Royal College of Art in London. Their films are collages of puppet animation and live-action. Some of them contain Polish inspirations, e.g. the soundtrack to Nocturna Artificialia (1979) was influenced by Zygmunt Konieczny’s music to Deszcze, the film Ein Brudermord (1982) was illustrated with the music of Krzysztof Penderecki and Lech Jankowski wrote the film score for Street of Crocodiles (1986) based on the prose of Bruno Schulz. In 2003 they received the Dragon of Dragons special prize at the Krakow Film Festival.
Stephen i Timothy Quay were born in 1947 in Norristown. They graduated from the Academy of Art in Philadelphia and the Royal College of Art in London. Their films are collages of puppet animation and live-action. Some of them contain Polish inspirations, e.g. the soundtrack to Nocturna Artificialia (1979) was influenced by Zygmunt Konieczny’s music to Deszcze, the film Ein Brudermord (1982) was illustrated with the music of Krzysztof Penderecki and Lech Jankowski wrote the film score for Street of Crocodiles (1986) based on the prose of Bruno Schulz. In 2003 they received the Dragon of Dragons special prize at the Krakow Film Festival.
