Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

BiografieBiography

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.

Festivals
International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart
2016
Krakow Film Festival
2016
Ottawa International Animation Festival
2016
Warsaw Film Festival
2016
Animateka International Animated Film Festival
2016
GLAS Animation Festival
2017
Glasgow Short Film Festival
2017
Go Short
2017
IndieLisboa
2017
Vienna Shorts
2017
Curtas Vila do Conde
2017
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
2017
Short Waves Festival
2018
CREDITS
Scenario Script
Camera
Animation Animatie
Editor Montage
Music Muziek
Production Company Productiehuis
PRIJS €2,50
PRICE €2,50
BESCHIKBAARHEID
Worldwide
AVAILABILITY
Worldwide
ORIGINELE TAAL No dialogues
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE No dialogues
ONDERTITELING No dialogues
SUBTITLES No dialogues
Aspect ratio
16:9
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PRIJS €4
PRICE €4
BESCHIKBAARHEID
Worldwide
AVAILABILITY
Worldwide
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© Impossible Figures and Other Stories (Marta Pajek, 2016)

Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

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.

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

This film was chosen by filmmaker and musician Daniel Šuljić, in response to Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels’ Oh Willy.... Šuljić, born in Zagreb, studied painting and animation at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and currently lives and works in both cities. Šuljić’s films earned several international awards. For several years, Šuljić lectured classical animation in Linz and was named honorary professor at Jilin College of the Arts Animation School in Changchun, China. He also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2011, Šuljić has been the artistic director of Animafest Zagreb.

Tekst en keuze doorChoice and text by
Daniel Šuljić

A gentle, middle-aged man returns to the nudist colony he grew up in to visit his elderly mother. Her sudden death leaves Willy in a state of sadness. He soon finds himself lost in the midst of a savage wilderness, trying to find comfort.