STONE STORY
We are stones, eternal wanderers. We travel in space and across the Earth…
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 5'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Giżycki
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Giżycki
- EDITOR:
- 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:
- 9th International Animation Festival Fest Anca, Slovakia, 2016 (screening)
- File Anima - Electronic Language International Festival, Brazil, 2018 (screening)
- Cinema London Film Festival (Cinemagic), The United Kingdom, 2016, (competition)
- Superhero Short Film Fest, USA, 2017, (Honorable Mention)
- Limerick Film Festival, Ireland, 2016, (competition)
- ANIMAZE – Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Canada, 2016, (competition)
- BANG International Animated Film Festival, Lisboa/Torres Vedras, Portugal, 2016, (competition)
- BLOW-UP – Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, USA, 2016, (competition)
- Directors Circle Festival of Shorts, Erie, USA, 2016, (competition)
- MovieScreenPro Film Festival, USA, 2018 (competition)
- Unprecedented Cinema, Estonia, 2018 (Best Experimental Film)
- Marin County International Festival of Short Film & Video, USA, 2018 (competition)
- International Environmental Film Festival «Green Vision», Russia, 2019 (competition)