MONUMENT
The film shows the secret life of the monumental sculptures, designed by Jerzy Januszczkiewicz for the Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
- GENRE:
- animation
- RUNNING TIME:
- 2'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Giżycki
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Giżycki
- DOP:
- Marcin Giżycki
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Giżycki
- MUSIC:
- Witold Górka
- ANIMATION:
- Marcin Giżycki
- PRODUCTION:
- Marcin Giżycki
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).
AT FESTIVALS:
- 13th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (screening)
- Athens Animfest, Greece, 2018 (screening)
- Cinema London Film Festival (Cinemagic), The United Kingdom, 2016, (competition)
- London Experimental Film Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016, (competition)
- Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Spain, 2016, (competition)
- Moviate Underground Film Festival, USA, 2016, (competition)
- Underground FilmFest, Germany, 2016, (competition)
- Veterans’ Film Festival (VFF), Australia, 2016, (competition)
- 6th StopTrik International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (competition)
- Black Maria Film Festival, USA, 2017 (Jury's Choice)
- Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Montreal Underground Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- 3rd Quito Independent World Film Festival (3rd FEMUCIQ), Ecuador, 2018 (competition)
- Fresh Stream Experimental Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA, 2018 (Best Experimental Animated Short Film)
- Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy, 2018 (competition)
- Veracruz Short Film Festival, Mexico, 2018 (Best Experimental Short Film)
- International Festival Cinema Povero, Italy, 2018 (competition)
- Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, USA, 2019 (competition)
- Dramatica Film Festival, Spain, 2020 (competition)