SYCILIAN FLEA

POLISH TITLE: SYCYLIJSKA PCHŁA

A stylish love story told by means of old postcards. The latest film of Ola Egri and Valentin Rudolpho. The authors dedicate it to anonymous or forgotten designers of postcards from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries who inspired surrealists. An animated film by Marcin Giżycki, an art historian and critic, especially of the world animation.

GENRE:
animation
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
8'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Marcin Giżycki
SCRIPT:
Marcin Giżycki
DOP:
Piotr Hływa
EDITOR:
Maciej Sznabel
MUSIC:
Jarosław Siwiński
PRODUCTION:
Serafiński Studio Sp.

Marcin Giżycki »

Art and film historian, critic, filmmaker. Editor in Chief of “Animafilm” magazine (1979-81). Profesor at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw and Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA (since 1988). Artistic Director of “Animator” International Animated Film Festival in Poznan, Poland (since 2007). He has made a number of documentary, experimental, and animated films, among them “I Am Providence: The Story of H.P. Lovecraft and His City” (1997), “Gus Van Sant” (1998, with Slawomir Grünberg), “The Island of Jan Lenica” (1998), “Travels of Daniel Szczechura” (2005), “106 Olney Street” (2007), “Sicilian Flea” (2008), “Panta Rhei” (2008), “Aquatura” (2010), “AE” (2011), “Kinefaktura” (2012), “F.I.T.” (2012), “FFF1” (2013), “White Curtain” (2014), “A Magic-Lantern Life” (2014), “Watch Your Thoughts” (2015), “Mono Canne” (2015), "Sto[ne]s" (2015), "Monument" (2016), "Stone Story" (2016), "Theatrum Magicum" (2017). His books include: “Disney Was Not the Only One” (2000), “Wenders Go Home!” (2006). He co-curated retrospectives of Polish animated films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2003) and Centre Pompidou in Paris (2004).