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POLISH TITLE: WIECZÓR
Four men are waiting for a tram. Inspired by a painting by Zenon Wasilewski, the father of Polish animated film.
- GENRE:
- animation / fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 3'
- YEAR:
- 2019
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Giżycki
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Giżycki
- DOP:
- Łukasz Owczarzak
- CAST:
- Piotr Winiecki, Kamil Mikołajczyk, Andrzej Pazderski, Marcin Bartnicki
- MUSIC:
- Witold Górka
- ANIMATION:
- Marcin Roszczyniała, Łukasz Owczarzak
- PRODUCTION:
- Fundacja Czarny Karzeł
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:
- 2019 Animateka - International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2019 (screening)
- Arte Non Stop Festival, (Special Mention)
- Sunnyside Shorts International Film Festival, USA, (competition)
- The Unprecedented Cinema, 2020, Estonia, (Best Animation)
- Stop Motion Film Festival, Spain, (Special Mention)
- Sax International Film Festival, Spain, 2019 (competition)
- BuSho International Short Film Festival, 2019, 2019 (competition)
- Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil, 2019 (competition)
- World Festival of Animated Film, 2019, Bulgaria, 2019 (competition)
- Västerås Filmfestival 2019, Sweden, 2019 (competition)
- 26th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Polska, 2019 (competition)
- Animation Marathon, 2019. Greece, 2019 (competition)
- Short Stop, Romania, 2020 (Best Experimental)
- The International Festival of Films on Art, Canada, 2020 (competition)
- Experiments in Cinema, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Annecy International Animation Festival 2020, France, 2020 (competition)
- Experimental Film Festiva, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- Bizarrya Short Film Festival, 2020, Portugal, 2020 (competition)
- International Short Film Festival Canton, China, 2020 (competition)