THE INCREDIBLY ELASTIC MAN
POLISH TITLE: NIEPRAWDOPODOBNIE ELASTYCZNY CZŁOWIEK
"The incredibly elastic man" is a story of a man without shape. Given this efimeral body he is constraint to deal with the people, things and places that are constantly shaping him. Can one live completely detached from others, from reality? Who and what decides of who we are in the end?
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 5'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Karolina Specht
- SCRIPT:
- Karolina Specht
- DOP:
- Karolina Specht
- EDITOR:
- Karolina Specht
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Karolina Specht »
Born in 1991 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Graduate of Secondary School of Fine Arts in Bydgoszcz and The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. She is a director, an animator and a graphic designer. Her two movies (An incredibly elastic man, Don't lose your head) was screened in the student competition at the International Animation Film Festival Annecy in France. In 2013,she received the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding achievements for students of art schools. Minister scholarship for 2015/2016.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 7th Lviv International Film Festival Wiz-Art., Ukraine, 2014 (screening)
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- 38th Cinanima Animated Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 (screening)
- 12th Anilogue International Animation Festival, Hungary, 2014 (screening)
- Akbank Short Film Festival 2015, Turkey, 2015 (screening)
- Animated Spirits: New Animated Shorts from Europe, USA, 2015 (screening)
- 27th Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2015 (screening)
- Tijdgeest 20/15 Festival Brebi, The Netherlands , 2015 (screening)
- Tijdgeest 20/15, The Netherlands, 2015 (screening)
- Summer Film School Uherske Hradiste 2015, Czech Republic, 2015 (screening)
- Olomouc Summer Film School, Czech Republic, 2015 (screening)
- 13th Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2015 (screening)
- 5th Cartón ISAFF, Argentina, 2015 (screening)
- Animanima Animation Festival 2015, Serbia, 2015 (screening)
- CiakPolska Film Festival 2015, Italy, 2015 (screening)
- 7th Al Este de Lima Film Festival, Peru, 2016 (screening)
- 20th Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival SICAF 2016, Korea, 2016 (screening)
- 8th ReAnimania International Animation and Comics Art Festival, Armenia, 2016 (screening)
- Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)
- 20th Mecal Pro IS Film and Animation Festival, Spain, 2018 (screening)
- 9th Athens Animfest, Greece, 2014 (competition)
- Northwest Animation Film Festival 2013, USA, 2014 (competition)
- 5th Golden Kuker International Animation Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2014 (competition)
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- 38th Annecy International Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- Fest Anca International Animation Festival 2014, Slovakia, 2014 (Best Student Film)
- 14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- Animatou Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2014 (competition)
- 9th Anim'est Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2014 (Special Mention for a Student Film )
- 11th Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)
- 11th European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA, Serbia, 2014 (competition)
- 7th CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2014 (competition)
- 33rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 6th Reanimania International Animation Film Festival, Armenia, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 57th DOK. Leipzig, Germany, 2014 (competition)
- Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2014, Hungary, 2014 (competition)
- 21st Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival, Poland , 2014 (Student Jury Award)
- Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Canada, 2014 (competition)
- 11th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATEKA, Slovenia, 2014 (competition)
- 37th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2015 (competition)
- 34th Brussels Animation Films Festival ANIMA , Belgium, 2015 (competition)
- Visegrad Film Forum, Slovakia, 2015 (competition)
- Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival 2015, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- 8th Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK, 2015 (competition)
- 17th MECAL - International Festival of Short Film and Animation, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 11th Akbank Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2015 (competition)
- 20th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania , 2015 (competition)
- Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia , 2015 (competition)
- 22nd Stuttgart IFAF Trickfilm, Germany, 2015 (competition)
- 23rd Boskovice Festival, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)
- 9th International Film Festival Kratkofil Plus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015 (competition)
- 11th Lago Film Fest, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- Alpinale Short Film Festival 2015, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- 16th Los Angeles Polish Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- "Les Enfants terribles" European First Film Festival 2015, Belgium, 2015 (competition)
- International Animation Arts Festival “Multivision” 2015, Russia, 2015 (competition)
- 25th INVIDEO - International Exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond, Italy , 2015 (competition)
- 27th Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2015 (competition)
- Mecal Chile Festival 2015, Chile, 2015 (competition)