DANSE MACABRE
REPRESENTED BY KFF
A dense, pitch black night. The moon glances balefully. Someone will die tonight. Suddenly the carousel of death moves on and there is nothing to stop it. Joined by a fine thread the skeletons waft up and then fall straight into the clip of the fatal revolver. The bones are patiently assembled and decomposed by a mysterious machine that shuffles them so precisely that they cannot be told from one another. The skeletons brought back to a deadly dance try their hand one final time before the Grim Reaper cuts their heads off for good. The animated “Danse Macabre” is a rhythmic and hypnotizing reflection on death, that one day will inevitably ask each of us to dance.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 5'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Małgorzata Rżanek
- SCRIPT:
- Małgorzata Rżanek
- DOP:
- Małgorzata Rżanek
- EDITOR:
- Małgorzata Rżanek
- MUSIC:
- Magda Grabowska - Wacławek
- PRODUCTION:
- Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie
Małgorzata Rżanek »
graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a MA degree in 2012. She was granted a degree with honours from the Hieronim Neumann's Studio of Animated Film and Lech Majewski's Studio of Graphic Design. She specializes in animation, effects, short films, promotional videos, music videos, scenarios and storyboards.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 29th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)
- 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2014 (screening)
- 15th International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan, 2014 (screening)
- 9th Anim'est Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2014 (screening)
- 5th Cartón ISAFF, Argentina, 2015 (screening)
- "The Fantastic Four" Central European Film Festival in Istanbul 2015, Turkey, 2015 (screening)
- "The Fantastic Four" Central European Film Festival in Izmir, Turkey, 2016 (screening)
- 19th Traverse Video Festival, France, 2016 (screening)
- LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (screening)
- SICAF 2017, Korea, 2017 (screening)
- 12th Seoul Best of Best Animation Festival, Korea, 2018 (screening)
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
- Cinefondation Cannes Film Festival, France, 2013 (competition)
- 16th Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt , 2013 (The Jury Prize in the Animation Competition)
- Cinefiesta 2013, Puerto Rico, 2013 (competition)
- World Festival of First Animations Primanima 2013, Hungary, 2013 (competition)
- 29th interfilm International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2013 (competition)
- 25th Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)
- Jaipur International Film Festival, India, 2014 (competition)
- 30th IMAGINE Film Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014 (competition)
- 17th Brooklyn International Film Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)
- 5th Fantastic Film Festival Bloody Weekend, France, 2014 (competition)
- 10th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna, Bulgaria, 2014 (competition)
- 7th Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- 21st International Animated Film Festival KROK, Russia, 2014 (competition)
- 13th International Short and Independent Film Festival Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014 (competition)
- ANIMAC - Animation Film Festival of Catalunya, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- Melbourne International Animation Festival 2015, Australia, 2015 (competition)