Successful and renowned Hungarian-Polish director Tomek Ducki has in recent years been focusing on music videos – we saw one of his videos in our competition last year. Now he’s back with his colourful style and sensitive mix of several animation techniques. He combines the aesthetics of sand, hand drawing and pulsating abstract shapes.
39 Weeks, 6 Days is an artistic experiment, animated diary and personal documentary showing animated self-portraits of woman and man, married couple and co-authors during 40 weeks of the gravidity.
The main heroine of this film loves animals, but unfortunately way too much. Most of all, she loves her cat which gradually becomes her whole world. Catherine lives detached from people and slowly turns into a crazy old cat lady. The author, who is particular about telling stories, can surprise her viewers at the right moment.
A music video by the renowned and successful Hungarian author Tomek Ducki elaborates and varies the relationship between a man and a woman. The author used original collages full of colours, motives and geometrical shapes.
An observer, who clears his mind and constrains his resources to work only with time and motion in space, can not only find pixilation rapture, but what’s more, if he connects to the wave, his journey will consume him in his entirety. And everything plays its part – waving of the grass, clouds, hills and valley, sunlight and also ourselves. A non-narrative pixilation of the Czech landscape.
Despite its title, this pixilated film portrays unsuccessful dating. The film’s main protagonist with a horse’s head uses an unconventional dating app reminiscent of old 8-bit games to help him find a soul mate. But even the best dating app cannot anticipate the reactions of the unicorns that we sometimes think we are.
The Czech director of this puppet film studied animation in Melbourne in Australia. His film shows what happens when a quarter-century-old rusted chain on a prisoner’s leg takes life into its own hands after the prisoner loses his sparkle.
Martin Živocký and Veronika Jelínková made a melancholic music video set at sea. As a man floats in a small boat, he is confronted with various obstacles and his own memories. Everything is portrayed with tasteful 3D animation.
