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double bill #13

Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

Marta Pajek, Poland, 2016, 15’
Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival

2016

Glasgow Short Film Festival

2017

Int’l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

2017

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns. The film is the second in the triptych Impossible Figures and Other Stories. Each of the parts tells a story of aiming for perfection in a reality full of traps.

Bio Marta Pajek

Marta Pajek (Poland, 1982) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where she lives and works. She specialised in animated film in the class of Jerzy Kucia and as part of an exchange programme also studied at Turku Arts Academy under Priit Pärn. Her short films include After Apples, Nextdoor and Sleepincord.

Everything about this film is poetry. Even the synopsis reads like a poem. Nothing in this film is told in a classical narrative. Edits between pictures are fluid, situations unfold with a floating camera, and we ask ourselves: What is this? Why is this happening? Where is the heroine going? Who are those dancers? What’s with the egg? Great art is not explanatory; it leaves a mystery to be grasped by every viewer on their own. This is animation art at its strongest.

Daniel Šuljić

Credits

Script
Marta Pajek
Camera
Marta Pajek
Editor
Marta Pajek
Animation
Marta Pajek
Music
Michelle Gurevich
Production
Animoon
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